DRAMA
Run Time: 95
Release Date: 9/17/2013
PG13
DANIEL RADCLIFFE LUCY MAY BARKER

Product Description

Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) a widowed lawyer whose grief has put his career in jeopardy is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric. But upon his arrival it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost& and no one not even the children are safe from her vengeance.

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Fans of classically structured haunted house/ghost stories will relish the skillfully unnerving chain of events in The Woman in Black whether or not they're fans of Harry Potter. The good new is that Daniel Radcliffe leaves Harry behind for good in his first post-Potter role. Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps a young solicitor tasked with resolving the affairs of a recently deceased woman and her brooding estate in the gloom of the remote Victorian England-era village of Crythin Gifford. The mood is melancholic all around?? starting with Kipps himself?? who lost his wife to childbirth a few years earlier. His employer has had just about enough of his moping about and gives him the assignment as a last resort to save his job. When he arrives in the small village?? the icy response he receives does not bode well for successful completion of his mission. All the townspeople want him gone?? and possibly for good reason. Many of their children have died mysteriously gruesome deaths that they blame on the titular black-clad woman whose own child was tragically sucked to his death in the muck surrounding her seaside mansion. This new stranger wh