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The Reaping
Starring: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Screenplay by: Chad Hayes, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Brian Rousso
Release Date: April 5th, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for violence, disturbing images and sexuality.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Domestic: $25,126,214 (40.0%)
Foreign: $37,644,845 (60.0%)
Total: $62,771,059 (Worldwide)
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![]() Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) doesn’t believe in miracles – she believes in facts. A former minister, Katherine turned her back on the cloth after losing her young daughter and husband while doing missionary work in the Sudan, and now seeks answers through scientific investigation rather than prayer. As a university professor, she has become the foremost debunker of supposed miracles, called to sites all over the world to investigate weeping statues, wall stains resembling saints and palms that bleed.
And so far, there is no divine mystery she hasn’t solved. But when small-town schoolteacher Doug Blackwell seeks her help with a series of bizarre occurrences the townspeople believe to be sent by God, Katherine and her partner Ben come to learn that sometimes miracles can be treacherous, and the line between faith and superstition is dangerously thin.
Hidden among the woods and swamplands of Louisiana, Haven is a town where the rules of reason seem to have been rewritten. A child has died and the river has turned to blood, which is only the beginning of what appears to be a revisiting of the Biblical ten plagues upon the town.
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