The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Synopsis :
The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 film directed by Mark Pellington, adapted from the 1976 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean John Keel.
Richard Gere plays John Klein, a hot-shot Washington, D.C. reporter whose life suddenly takes a different turn after he and his wife, Mary, (Debra Messing) are involved in a car accident. Although she suffers a non-fatal head injury, Mary’s CAT scans show that she has a brain tumor diagnosed as glioblastoma. Shortly after her death, John discovers an assortment of cryptic drawings that she had made of a strange creature.
Two years later, while driving to Richmond, Virginia, John becomes lost and inexplicably finds himself almost five hours off-course, arriving in the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He soon becomes entangled in the personal stories of some of the residents, and in a chain of mysterious events, whereby local townspeople report strange supernatural encounters, along with weird lights and phone calls. With the help of the town sheriff (Laura Linney), John begins to investigate the encounters and determines that the common link is an apparently supernatural creature known as the Mothman, whose appearances seem to foretell disastrous events. Things take a decidedly personal and frightening turn when he realizes the eerie connections between his wife’s drawings, eyewitness accounts of the Mothman, and phone calls from an other-worldly, seemingly malevolent entity named Indrid Cold.
The Mothman becomes a personal obsession for Klein. He meets a Mothman expert, Alexander Leek (Alan Bates), who convinces him that there may be a tragedy in store for the small town.
Starring :
Richard Gere … John Klein
David Eigenberg … Ed Fleischman
Bob Tracey … Cyrus Bills
Ron Emanuel … Washington Post Reporter
Debra Messing … Mary Klein
Tom Stoviak … Brian
Yvonne Erickson … Dr. McElroy
Scott Nunnally … Orderly
Harris Mackenzie … TV Journalist
Will Patton … Gordon Smallwood
Lucinda Jenney … Denise Smallwood
Zachary Mott … Otto (as Billy Mott)
Ann McDonough … Lucy Griffin
Director :
Mark Pellington