By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
Hollywood thrillers in which sophisticated, attractive city folk move to creaky old country homes and experience scary things are a dime a dozen. Less common is when those Hollywood thrillers are based on the theology of 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
But here we are â a Swedenborgian thriller â and thus itâs not a bad idea to read up a bit on the man, by which we mean to Google him, before diving into âThings Heard & Seen,â a well-cast and often entertaining but campy and sometimes obvious thriller starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton.
2021/04/29 07:06 This image released by Netflix shows Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows James Norton, left, and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows James Norton, left, and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows James Norton, left, and Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP)
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Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
With: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Rhea Seehorn, Ana Sophia Heger, F. Murray Abraham, Alex Neustaedter, Natalia Dyer, Karen Allen, Jack Gore, Michael O’Keefe, James Urbaniak.
It was 18 years ago how time flies in the indie world that the married directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman brought us “American Splendor,” an achingly humane, scabrously funny, miraculously playful and inventive lower-depths comedy based on the life and work of the lumpen verité comic-book diarist Harvey Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti in a performance of irascible brilliance. The movie was an