The Awakening is a 2011 British horror film directed by Nick Murphy, starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, and Imelda Staunton. In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I.
Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain
sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the
'missing' begin to show themselves.
Director: Nick Murphy
Writers: Stephen Volk (screenplay), Nick Murphy (screenplay)
Stars: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton
Set in London in 1921, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), author of the
popular book "Seeing Through Ghosts," has devoted her career to exposing
claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes. Haunted by the recent
death of her fiancé, she is approached by Robert Mallory (Dominic West)
to investigate the recent death of a student at the all-boys boarding
school where he teaches. When students at the school report sightings of
the young boy's ghost, she decides to take on the case. Initially,
the mystery surrounding
the ghost appears nothing more than a schoolboy prank, but as Florence
continues to investigate events at the school, she begins to believe
that her reliance on science may not be enough to explain the strange
phenomenon going on around her.
