"Stir of Echoes" is a supernatural thriller firmly rooted in a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, where everyone on the block knows one another--although not as well as they think.Kevin Baconstars in one of his best performances, as a telephone lineman named Tom Witzky, who plays in a band...
Stir of Echoes (1999) – Movie ReviewWidge September 10, 1999 4 min readWritten and Directed by: David Koepp, based on the novel by Richard Matheson Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope, Liza Weil My Advice: Matinee Tom (Bacon) is, as a song once ...
A Review & Analysis Stir of EchoesStir of EchoesThe film itself is accurate as far as the weight a psychic ability upon the emotional health of a human being, for both the talent and those connected to them who do not have this talent in any form, in this case his wife and sister ...
I have plenty of time for Kevin Bacon's work (Ok we'll forget WILD THINGS). The topic of paranormal phenomena is an interesting one and production wise A STIR OF ECHOES is up over the "average" mark. I merely find it tasteless! Perhaps having two daughters much the same age as the ...
Stir of Echoes: Directed by David Koepp. With Zachary David Cope, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas. A man has visions of a missing neighborhood girl.
Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson, David Koepp's 1999 film "Stir of Echoes" is one of the richer, more notably creepy ghost stories of its time. Set in a relatively cloistered, working-class suburb of Chicago, "Stir of Echoes" is about how years-old crimes...
For those who still enjoy a rousing game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," this film will provide another connection. Bacon stars in David Koepp's Stir Of Echoes as a man troubled by vague and disturbing images, and he plays it with the kind of thick, sweaty tension that is just ...
From Roger Ebert’s 1998 review: Opinion on the melodramas of Douglas Sirk has flip-flopped since his key films were released in the 1950s. At the time, critics ridiculed them and the public lapped them up. Today most viewers dismiss them as pop trash, but in serious film circles Sirk ...
The oxide is theoretically modeled as an ideal planar layer of aluminum oxide, oriented normal to an interrogating ultrasound beam. Experimentally-measured grain scattering level is used to represent the practical noise floor. Echoes from naturally-occurring oxides will necessarily fall below this ...
Hence, this work echoes past findings that grain refinement is the cause of enhanced microhardness. Figure 9. Average stir zone surface microhardness of FSPed samples. 3.3. Surface Roughness Measurement The surface roughness of all the samples listed in Table 2 was measured and presented in ...