Ann Dalrymple, Deneen Tyler, Fahnlohnee Harris
Set largely in the dark backwoods just outside of New Orleans, The Skeleton Key stars Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005
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January 21, 2009I really liked the ending to this film, but it was a long time in coming. I probably liked this film because I don't usually like Kate Hudson's comedies and I found the tone of this film a refreshing change. It's a much better use of the actress. The story is a good one, and it's...( read more)
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August 31, 2008Hell.
"Been there, done that", "Déjà vu a million times", and even some "I deserve a kick in the groin for downloading this" moments splashed all the way through this piece of crap.
That is, until the last five minutes.
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July 2, 2008Filmed in New Orleans and it's surrounding area I was really hoping for much more than I got. They could have done so much more with this storyline. It was pretty weak.
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May 28, 2008One of the few horrors out there that made it's way onto my dvd shelf.
Kate Hudson portrays a nurse who goes to work for an eccentric couple living in New Orleans. She is given a spare key to the attic and tries to uncover the secret the family have been hiding for decades.
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November 9, 2009The music didn't annoy me as much as the first time I watched it. Good quality suspenseful movie. The ending would've been perfect if they didn't use it as the setup for a (probably lame) sequel.
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October 31, 2009"It can't hurt you if you don't believe it."
Actually a lot better than I remember, and the ending means that there is re-watch value, The Skeleton Key is solidly - if unremarkably - directed, has a stellar cast (Sarsgaard, Rowlands, Hurt, and, erm, Hudson), good
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Critic Reviews
August 26, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
August 16, 2005
Kurt Loder, MTV
[D]oesn't seem to promise much going in ... but its eerie premise lingers in your mind. It may not qualify as a true ghost story, but it's still pretty haunting. full review
August 12, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
There's lots of bad stuff brewing on the bayou in this occasionally scary but more often silly movie, which wastes some good actors along the way. full review
August 12, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
The film offers a rich gumbo of menace, mystery and magic - and then lets it go cold and mushy in a rainstorm of Hollywood haunted-house huggermugger. full review
August 11, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Skeleton Key is one of those movies that explains too much while it is explaining too little, and leaves us with a surprise at the end that makes more sense the less we think about it. But the mov... full review
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May 31, 2008Well the twist was unexpected. but i am a little uncomfortable with the ending.
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January 6, 2008I think this movie is very intresting cause in the end you finaly figure out what's really hapning with the old men and his wife. I woldn't imagine that the old men is in fact the young who had taken care of the husbands
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August 10, 2007I really loved this Movie. There are not much Ghosts or special effects in it. But imagination is inough. Kate Hudson has done a danm good Work. Its suspense till the End. But actually you dont have to be an Expert or Genious to figure out that the young Guy is not "From Good ones"
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January 4, 2007A Chave Mestra". Ela recebe uma chave mestra que abre todos os comodos da casa e acaba desvendando parte dos segredos da casa que estavam escondidos no sótão..
Feitiçaria, vida eterna, magia negra e muitas surpresas são os temperos deste filme. É bem bom esse filme!
Pra quem gostou de "O Chamado", a chave mestra é um prato cheio. -
November 11, 2006i thought this movie was gonna be very scary and bloody but, once i saw it, it wasnt anything of what i thought the movie is not bad but it isnt great
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