From Fear of Rain.
After suffering another mental breakdown, schizophrenic teenager Rain Burroughs (Madison Iseman) is struggling to recover from both her physical injuries and the confusion between reality and hallucination. While her mother (Katherine Heigl) and father (Harry Connick Jr.) prepare to bring her home from the hospital, the doctor announces that another incident will result in Rain being committed to a mental hospital. When they arrive home, Rain notices the tension between her parents, but tries to settle back into her routine and correct medicine regiment. While finding the balance in her medications, Rain knows that many of the things that she hears and sees are hallucinations from her mind, and her mom frequently reminds her to answer a checklist to determine if something is real or not. While her dad repairs her trashed room, Rain stays in the guest room and sees a little girl in the attic of their their teacher neighbor, Dani (Eugenie Bondurant). Rain knows the girl is real, but her parents don’t see her, and her dad writes it off as a hallucination. Rain’s return to school is tumultuous as her best friend abandons her and has Dani as a teacher, but when a new student, Caleb (Israel Broussard) befriends her, she doubts that he’s real. However, when Caleb agrees to help Rain prove that the girl is real, the two set off on a thrilling mystery where nothing is as it seems and every step forward in their unofficial investigation draws a greater risk of a mental hospital. With time quickly running out both for her freedom and the little girl’s safety, her tightened struggle with her mind will force Rain to question everything she sees.
This psychological thriller is full of special effects and a writing style that causes the viewer to question everything. Some of the elements come across as slightly horror, but it leans more towards jump scares and not gory. Iseman portrays her character with impressive skill, easily conveying her character’s confusion to the viewer. Fear of Rain is an engaging thriller with enough twists to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
| Rated: PG-13| Running Time: 109 minutes |Genre: thriller |
||Family Viewing||Cursing: 3* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 2 of 10
|AVAILABLE FOR HOME VIEWING|
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