Catherine invites them into her home, unaware of this dark past, or of George withholding this knowledge from her. The couple soon settles into their new life and Catherine occupies her time with restoring their dilapidated home which nonetheless has “good bones” with the help of brothers, Eddie (Alex Neustaedter) and Cole (Jack Gore) Lucks, who were the most recent residents of the house until their father murdered their mother and then killed himself.

Catherine, on the other hand, gives up her job as an art restorer, a pretty good one at that, to make this move, uncertain about what the seemingly idyllic life would mean for her family.Īmanda Seyfried in Things Heard and Seen.

On getting his doctorate in art history from Columbia University, George is offered a post upstate as a professor at the provincial Saginaw College. In the adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s 2016 novel, All Things Cease to Appear, Academy Award-nominated actor Amanda Seyfried and James Norton (of Happy Valley and Little Women) play Catherine and George Claire, who move from the bustle of Manhattan to a bucolic town in Hudson Valley with their daughter, Franny.

A marriage unravelling in sinister ways, sparse instances of horror staples like strange occurrences and mysterious voices, and the cord that connects this world to the afterlife are elements that feel deliberately clumped together in Things Heard and Seen, a rather dispassionate ghost story from the husband-wife duo, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman.

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