The Skeleton Key
Fearing is believing.
Rating: 6.6 out of 10TMDB(2.4K votes)
Overview
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
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Box office
Grossed $94M worldwide, about 2.2 times its $43M budget
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Filming locations
Filmed in New Orleans
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Setting
Set in New Orleans
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Music
Music by Edward Shearmur
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Daniel Mindel
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Ehren KrugerWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 29, 2005
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $43M
- Revenue
- $94M
- Countries
- Germany, United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Kate HudsonCaroline Ellis
Gena RowlandsViolet Devereaux
Peter SarsgaardLuke Marshall
John HurtBen Devereaux
Joy BryantJill- Marion ZinserBayou Woman
Maxine BarnettMama Cynthia
Fahnlohnee R. HarrisHallie
Deneen TylerDesk Nurse
Ann DalrympleC.N.A.
Trula M. MarcusNurse Trula
Jen ApgarMadeleine Thorpe
Thomas UskaliRobertson Thorpe
Jamie Lee RedmonGrace Thorpe
Forrest LandisMartin Thorpe
Tonya StatenNurse Audrey
Isaach de BankoléCreole Gas Station Owner- Christa ThorneCreole Mother
Ronald McCallPapa Justify
Jeryl PrescottMama Cecile
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