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Directed by | Iain Softley |
Written by | Ehren Kruger |
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Cinematography | Dan Mindel |
Edited by | Joe Hutshing |
Music by | Edward Shearmur |
Production companies | Shadowcatcher Entertainment Double Feature Films |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $43 million[1] |
Box office | $94 million[1] |
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural folk horror film directed by Iain Softley and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The screenplay by Ehren Kruger follows a New Orleans hospice nurse who begins a job at a Terrebonne Parish plantation home, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving the house, its former inhabitants, and Hoodoo rituals that took place there.