Audrey Rose (film)

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Audrey Rose
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Directed by	Robert Wise
Produced by	Frank De Felitta Joe Wizan
Written by	Frank De Felitta
Starring	Marsha Mason Anthony Hopkins John Beck Susan Swift
Music by	Michael Small
Cinematography	Victor J. Kemper
Editing by	Carl Kress
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	April 6, 1977
Running time	113 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Unknown
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Audrey Rose is a 1977 horror film directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins. It was based on the novel of the same title by Frank De Felitta. The book had a sequel, For Love of Audrey Rose, which was not filmed. The original music score was composed by Michael Small. The film was marketed with the tagline "A haunting vision of reincarnation."

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A woman and her five-year old daughter, Audrey Rose Hoover, are killed in a car accident. Two minutes later, Ivy is born nearby to Janice and Bill Templeton.

Years later, when Ivy is almost eleven, she begins having nightmares. A stranger, Elliot Hoover, visits the Templeton family and tells them about his daughter and wife. He believes that his little girl was reincarnated in Ivy.

Hoover is able to calm Ivy's recurrent nightmares down by calling her Audrey Rose, but after he abducts her, he is arrested. His subsequent attempts to argue a case for reincarnation at his trial became a cause célèbre.