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White Noise

Year:

2005

Duration:

101 min | Sweden:94 min

Genres:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

5.5

Director:

Geoffrey Sax

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2005-01-07

Filming Locations: British Columbia, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $10,000,000

Opening Weekend: $24,113,565 (USA) (9 January 2005)

Gross: $55,865,715 (USA) (20 February 2005)

Cast

Actor

Character

Michael Keaton

White Noise

Chandra West

Anna Rivers

Deborah Kara Unger

Sarah Tate

Ian McNeice

Raymond Price

Sarah Strange

Jane

Nicholas Elia

Mike Rivers

Mike Dopud

Detective Smits

Marsha Regis

Police Woman

Brad Sihvon

Minister

Mitchell Kosterman

Work Man

L. Harvey Gold

Business Man

Amber Rothwell

Susie Tomlinson

Suzanne Ristic

Mary Freeman

Keegan Connor Tracy

Mirabelle Keegan

Miranda Frigon

Carol Black - Car Crash Woman

Aaron Douglas

Frank Black - Young Father

Anthony Harrison

Doctor

Bruce Dawson

Mark

Benita Ha

TV Reporter

Anastasia Corbett

EVP - Young Girl

Micki Maunsell

Edith Tomlinson (as Miki Maunsell)

Ross Birchall

EVP - Young Boy

Peter Bryant

EVP - Man

Bill Tarling

Presence #1

Chuck Walkinshaw

Presence #2

Colin Chapin

Presence #3

April Telek

John's Secretary

Michale Ascher

Woman

Gardiner Millar

Husband (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The EVP recording from the trailer ("I will see you no more.") that is attributed to a woman named Ruth Baxter who died in 1987, is supposedly a recording from Point Lookout, a "haunted" lighthouse in Maryland, made by an EVP researcher named Sarah Estep. The lighthouse was used as a hospital during the Civil War and some interpretations of the recording believe it to say, "I was seeing the war," or "I was seeing the water." While the recording is said to be authentic by the AAEVP, the Ruth Baxter story is fiction.

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EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) is claimed by adherents of the paranormal, to be of 'other-worldly' origins', and was not invented by the film's makers.

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Approximately one second before the WHITE NOISE title card appears [00:01:35 in], there is a split-second subliminal "flash" image of a skeletal figure. Immediately after the final blackout at the end of the film there is another "flash" image, this time (presumably) of Michael Keaton, which fades into the static.

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Goofs

When Jonathan first meets Raymond Price, he tells him that the voices and visuals are not "live", you have to record and then listen to the playback. But at the end of the film, when Jonathan's ex-wife is sitting in the car with his young son, you hear the voice come over the static radio - this was therefore live and not a recording.

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Though the story is set in Washington, the filmmakers make no attempt to conceal British Columbia licence plates.

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When John is at Carol Black's funeral, he stops to Carol Black's husband. A bald man with dark rimmed glasses walks past them to exit the church, and takes an obvious look at Carol Black's husband. The camera then focuses on John for a couple seconds. When the camera again focuses on Carol Black's husband, the same bald man with dark rimmed glasses walks past them to exit the church.

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Quotes

Jonathan Rivers: Order me a bouquet of flowers, lilies. And some champagne, no, chocolates, a big box, those Belgian kind. Know what I mean? What? What are you looking at now?

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Raymond Price: [after John hears a ghost cursing at them] There are some very bad people out there. They can't all be Anna.

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Jonathan Rivers: I'm sorry Mikey.

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Faq

How does it end?

Guy with hard hat at construction site (who asked Jonathan in the elevator: Are you all right?) holds missing woman Mary Freeman near the spot Anna's body was found. John calls Detective Smits' cell phone. Guy tells Jonathan they -the three silhouettes- told him to do it.Death/evil/demons or what-have-you attack Jonathan. The police arrive in time to save Mary and kill Guy, but too late to save Jonathan.Sarah attends the funeral in a wheelchair. After the funeral Jane, her husband and son Mikey get into the car. Jane turns on the radio and we hear Jonathan say: "I'm sorry, Mikey." Wow. End.

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