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What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath

Drama · Horror · Mystery · 2000

Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.

Movie details

What Lies Beneath

“He was the perfect husband until his one mistake followed them home.”

2000 Drama · Horror · Mystery 2h 10m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.6 / 10

141.3K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

49 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

51 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over What Lies Beneath?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Robert Zemeckis

Written by

Clark Gregg · Sarah Kernochan

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer

Claire Spencer

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

Norman Spencer

Diana Scarwid

Diana Scarwid

Jody

James Remar

James Remar

Warren Feur

Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto

Mary Feur

Ray Baker

Ray Baker

Dr. Stan Powell

Wendy Crewson

Wendy Crewson

Elena

Court is in session

Put What Lies Beneath on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.