Things Heard and Seen

  • 15 May - 21 May, 2021
  • Mag The Weekly
  • TV TIME

Arguments about the annoying way you squeeze the toothpaste tube meet haunted-house apparitions in Netflix’s Things Heard and Seen, an amalgamation of horror-thrillers and domestic dramas. Amanda Seyfried and James Norton headline the adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear, playing the couple dealing with their troubled marriage. The movie opens in 1980, when George (Norton) pulls into the garage and blood drops down from the floorboards of the house onto his car. The spring before, when George, Catherine (Seyfried) and their four-year-old daughter Frannie (Ana Sophia Heger) say goodbye to New York City and head up the Hudson River a ways to live in an old farmhouse. He just landed a gig as an art history professor at a college. Cath isn’t big on the move, because it means giving up her art-restoration career, and being away from everyone they know, and living near a town that is named Chosen, and moving into a house formerly owned by the Smits. Cath struggles to settle in. She has her painting gear in the barn, but she’s often isolated and dealing with whatever is going on inside the house. We’ve got some complex characters there, supporting folk play into the plot.

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