Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt,
Joy Bryant
Directed by: Iain Softley
Produced by: Daniel Bobker, Iain Softley, Michael Shamberg
After New Orleans hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) answers a
help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker
of Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), a stroke victim who has lost his
ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands), presents
Caroline with a skeleton key to open any door in the house--with
the exception of one, which she claims she has never been able to
open. But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the
door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's
history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic. She soon
discovers that the house harbors a dark secret--one that Violet
knows more about than she first admits.
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