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Red Lights (2012)

Red Lights poster
Directed by
Rodrigo Cortés
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, thriller film
Country
United States, Spain
Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 1,420 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A physicist and a psychology professor who debunk supernatural claims take on a famous psychic. They try to expose him as a fraud before his stage show in front of a live audience.

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What happens

Red Lights is a 2012 psychological supernatural thriller film written, directed, produced and edited by Rodrigo Cortés and starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones, Joely Richardson and Elizabeth Olsen. The plot focuses on a physicist (Murphy) and a university psychology professor (Weaver), both of whom specialise in debunking supernatural phenomena, and their attempt at discrediting a renowned psychic (De Niro) whose greatest critic mysteriously died 30 years prior. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012, and received a limited release in the United States on 13 July 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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