John Klein (Richard Gere Richard Gere is a hotshot Washington, D.C. reporter whose life suddenly takes a turn after he and his wife Mary Debra Messing are involved in a car accident after she apparently tried to avoid something on the road. 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 Mary made of a strange black winged creature she saw on the night of the fateful accident.
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 residents and in a chain of mysterious events, wherein townspeople report strange supernatural encounters, along with weird lights and phone calls. With the help of town sheriff Connie Mills Laura Linney, John begins to investigate. He 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 an expert on the subject, Alexander Leek (Alan Bates ), who convinces him that there may be a tragedy in store for the small town. And this tragedy ends up being the collapse of the Silver Bridge
The Mothman Prophecies received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoesn reports 52% of critics gave the film positive write-ups based on 132 reviews, with a rating of 5.5/10. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it two stars out of four, calling it "unfocused" and "meandering," but praised the direction by Mark Pellington "whose command of camera, pacing and the overall effect is so good, it deserves a better screenplay."
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Mark Pellington
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The Mothman Prophecies
The Mothman Prophecies is a 1975 nonfiction book by author John Keel.The book's subject matter mostly concerns events in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during 1966 and 1967, focusing on sightings of a creature dubbed Mothman.
Parapsychology
Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method.
Charles Fort
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and remain in print.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch ancestry.
John Keel
John Alva Keel was a Fortean author and professional journalist.Keel wrote professionally from the age of 12, and was best known for his writings on unidentified flying objects, the "Mothman" of West Virginia, and other paranormal subjects.
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, and came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol.
Mothman
The Mothman is a creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from November 12, 1966, to December 1967. Most observers describe the Mothman as a man-sized creature with large reflective red eyes and large wings.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census.
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- The Mothman Prophecies
- The Mothman's Photographer: The Work of an Artist Touched by the Prophecies of the Infamous Mothman
- Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend
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- The Mothman's Photographer II: Meetings With Remarkable Witnesses Touched by Paranormal Phenomena, UFOs, and the Prophecies of West Virginia's Infamous Mothman
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