Release Year: 2005 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 114 minutes Other Title: The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, Untitled Scott Derrickson Project Director: Scott Derrickson Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Beau Flynn Distributor: Columbia Pictures
A bitter and repressed single lawyer (Laura Linney) takes on the church and the state when she fights for the life of a priest who performed a deadly exorcism on a young woman. Linney must battle the cocky state lawyer as well as her own lonliness, as she realizes that her career so far has not fulfilled her, nor is she happy in her job on a day to day basis.
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Laura Linney as Erin Bruner
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Father Moore: There are forces surrounding this trial... dark, powerful forces.
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE is probably a cinematic first since it is both a horror movie and a courtroom drama, all based on a famous true story. Okay, the degree of the truth is in the eye of the beholder, but real-life Emily Rose's grave is a shrine to those who believe that a demonic possession did occur and resulted in the death of this college age young woman. Rose is played athletically by newcomer Jennifer Carpenter, who manages to contort her body into extremely strange shapes when she is possessed.