The Awakening (1980)
Directed by Mike Newell
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
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What the British director Mike Newell - whose own CV encompasses the light comedy of Four Weddings and a Funeral, the brooding drama of Donnie Brasco and the cheesy scares of The Awakening - will make of the fourth episode remains to be seen.
She could have used a good editor, and the filmmakers probably did us a service trimming her material.British director Mike Newell ("The Awakening," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco") and screenwriter Steve Kloves (among others, "Wonder Boys" plus the previous "Potter" films) have appropriately pared down Rowling's sprawling 734-page hardbound novel into its most basic story constituents.
British director Mike Newell ("The Awakening," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco") and screenwriter Steve Kloves (who scripted among other things "Wonder Boys" plus the previous "Potter" films) have appropriately pared down Rowling's sprawling 734-page hardbound novel into its most basic story constituents.
Naysayers notwithstanding, it's a darned good movie.British director Mike Newell ("The Awakening," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco") and screenwriter Steve Kloves (among others, "Wonder Boys" plus the previous "Potter" films) have appropriately pared down Rowling's sprawling 734-page hardbound novel into its most basic story constituents.
Newell, the first British director at the helm, began his career with dark and disturbing films such as "The Awakening" and "Bad Blood" well before moving on to familiar, lighter fare like "Enchanted April" and Four Weddings and a Funeral."