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Transcript of 5 thriller films

• Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret . . . a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them. When Claire Spencer begins seeing ghostly images and hearing mysterious voices in their home, her husband Norman suspects it's just her imagination - until the images turn real. Now, together they must uncover the truth, confront their worst fears and find "what lies beneath" . . . with twisting and terrifying results.

• Budgeted at $100,000,000, What Lies Beneath was released on July 21, 2000 at #1 at the box office, grossing just under $30 million. It continued strongly throughout the summer of 2000, and ended up grossing over $155 million in the United States, and nearly $300 million worldwide.

• Zemeckis filmed What Lies Beneath while production on his other film, Cast Away, was shut down to allow Tom Hanks to lose weight and grow a beard for his character's development. In his career, this is one of Ford's few films in which he plays a villain.

• Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer both won Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favourite Actor – Suspense and Favourite Actress – Suspense, while Diana Scarwid was nominated for Favourite Supporting Actress – Suspense

• When a body is recovered at sea still alive, the mystery man (Damon) seems to have forgotten everything in life, including who he was. Eventually he begins to remember smaller details in life and soon finds out that his name was Jason Bourne. What he doesn't like is that a gun and fake passports also belong to him. Now Bourne, and his new friend, Marie Helena Kreutz (Potente) travel from country to country in search of his new identity. But, someone else is not happy to see him alive, and is frantically trying to track him do

• In its opening weekend, The Bourne Identity took in US$27,118,640 in 2,638 theatres. The film grossed $121,661,683 in North America and $92,263,424 elsewhere for a total worldwide gross of $414,034,224

• The film won many wards including the Taurus Award, the American choreography award and an ASCAP Award. However it was also nominated for the Golden Reel Award, the Saturn award and the Excellence in Production Design Award.

• On January 21, 2003, Universal Pictures released The Bourne Identity on VHS, and on DVD in the US in two formats; a single-disc widescreen collector's edition and a single-disc full screen collector's edition. Both contain supplemental materials including a making-of documentary, a commentary from director Doug Liman and deleted scenes. On July 13, 2004, Universal released a new DVD of the film in the US in preparation for the sequel's cinema debut

• Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robot phobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning, who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny , appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe... they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin, who specializes in the psyches of robots.

• The $120 million film was a solid box-office success, earning almost $145 million in North America and more than $200 million overseas.

• I, Robot was released on Blu-ray on March 11 2008, and on DVD on September 23, 2008.Additionally, the film got a 3D conversion, released on Blu-ray 3D on October 23, 2012.

• It was nominated for the 2004 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, but lost to Spider-Man 2.

• Trevor Reznik is a lathe-operator who suffers from insomnia and hasn't slept in a year. Slowly, he begins to doubt his sanity as increasingly bizarre things start happening at work and at home. Haunted by a deformed co-worker who no one seems to think exists, and an on-going stream of indecipherable Post-It notes he keeps finding on his fridge, he attempts to investigate what appears to be a mysterious plot against him and, in the process, embroils two women in his madness.

• The film was made on a budget of $5,000,000 (estimated) and on its Opening Weekend it earned $64,661 (USA) (22 October 2004) and its overall gross was $1,082,044 (USA) (25 March 2005)

• The Machinist was well-received by critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 76% of one-hundred-and-thirty-eight critics' reviews were positive. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times awarded the film three stars out of four, stating "The director Brad Anderson, working from a screenplay by Scott Kosar, wants to convey a state of mind, and he and Bale do that with disturbing effectiveness."

• The twenty-two year old Clay Beresford is a genius of finance secretly in love of his mother's secretary Sam Lockwood. Clay has a complex, expecting recognition from his mother Lilith Beresford that he is as capable as his father was, and he needs heart transplantation. When Clay finds a donor compatible with his rare blood, he requests his friend Dr. Jack Harper operate him under the protest of his mother that wants the famous Dr. Jonathan Never responsible for the procedure. On the eve of his heart surgery, Clay marries Sam and during the surgery, he experiences an "anaesthetic awareness" that leaves his conscious but paralyzed. Clay witnesses the dialogs in the room and discovers dark secrets about his surgery.

• The film was not screened in advance for critics. The film opened at No.5 at the U.S. Box office in its first opening weekend. As of July 11, 2008 it had a domestic box office gross of $14,377,198 in the U.S. and a total of $32,685,679 worldwide.

• A group representing anesthesiologists in Ontario blasted the film following its release for having its "science completely wrong." Ontario's Anesthesiologists, a section of the Ontario Medical Association, declared numerous scientific and procedural distortions in the film such as the presentation of improper anesthetic techniques.