The Awakening

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The Awakening

"Sometimes dead does not mean gone."

2011

1h 47m

6.4(1426 votes)

Horror

Thriller

Mystery

Overview

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

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29 members

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Rebecca Hall

Florence Cathcart

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Dominic West

Robert Mallory

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Imelda Staunton

Maud Hill

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Isaac Hempstead Wright

Tom

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Lucy Cohu

Constance Strickland

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Cal MacAninch

Freddie Strickland

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John Shrapnel

Reverend Hugh Purslow

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Diana Kent

Harriet Cathcart

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Richard Durden

Alexander Cathcart

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Alfie Field

Victor Parry

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Tilly Vosburgh

Vera Flood

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Ian Hanmore

Albert Flood

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Andrew Havill

George Vandermeer

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Anastasia Hille

Dorothy Vandermeer

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Joseph Mawle

Edward Judd

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Shaun Dooley

Malcolm McNair

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Steven Cree

Sergeant Evans

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Felix Soper

Julian Dowden

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Sidney Johnston

John Franklin

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Spike White

Alistair Howell

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Charlie Callaghan

Chris Hartley

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James Kirkham

William Ramsbottom

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Ewan Andrew Walker

Richard McGorian

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Adam Thomas Wright

Max Tebbitts

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Ben Greaves-Neal

Child Impostor

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Daniel Pirrie

Captain Mills

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Nicholas Amer

Edgar Hirsthwit

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Nick Murphy

Teacher 1

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Neil Broome

School Master (uncredited)

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