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Virginia Madsen in THE ASTRONAUT FARMER (2007).
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Madsen Faces HAUNTING

By: News Editor
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Gold Circle and director Peter Cor have set Virginia Madsen to star in A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT.

Based on a true story, the film will center on a family forced to relocate near a clinic where their teenage son is being treated for cancer. There, they discover that the home they have rented is a former mortuary with a dark history that might account for the extraordinary manifestations of the boy's illness and the supernatural events that threaten the family.

Tim Metcalfe and Adam Simon wrote the script . Paul Brooks, Andrew Trapani, Wendy Rhoads and Daniel Farrands will produce. Shooting will begin in the late summer.

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Comments/Responses

ponyboy76 • May 15, 2007, 04:30am •

She loves doing this crazy ass movies.

20105 • May 15, 2007, 09:13am •

Based on a true story? Depends on how/what ya do with it.

wessmith1966 • May 15, 2007, 09:40am •

I don't care about the story. Virginia Madsen's in this and that's all I need to buy a ticket. Not only is she drop dead gorgeous, she's a terrific actress.

biogeek • May 15, 2007, 09:55am •

She was my favorite part of Smith, before it was unjustly canned.
Does anyone happen to know when this supposed supernatural event took place?

rgtchtiger • May 15, 2007, 11:56am •

Oh great, another haunted house movie. Why is it that families find themselves in old, beat up, run down, creepy houses in movies? The Messengers comes to mind as an example of this. What people in real life would ever want to live in such a house?

Before any of you say this is based off a true story, I challenge all of you to investigate the actual events of this tale. I don't know the details, but I doubt this pitch here closely resembles what really had happened.

bjjdenver • May 15, 2007, 01:37pm •

I agree about VM, she has put together an impressive resume and has to be one of the most underrated actresses around.

Captmathman • May 15, 2007, 01:57pm •

I like haunted house flicks, and this could be good. I like Virginia Madsen very much.

LittleNell • May 15, 2007, 02:36pm •

It's supposed to be based on the experiences of Carmen Snedeker and her family. Carmen had a large family, so two of the kids had to sleep in the old mortuary exam rooms (they were fixed up - hopefully?). When the boys began coming upstairs at night because it was 'haunted', the parents started locking the door to keep them down there at night. Carmen said that the ghostly activity was exaggerated in the book and documentary, but the family still insists they experienced your basic, run-of-the-mill haunting. Shades of Amityville.

muchdrama • May 15, 2007, 03:59pm •

I'd like Madsen to bear my children.

shogunpimp • May 15, 2007, 09:16pm •

Watch this be another PG-13 crapfest like "The Messangers."

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