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  1. Red Lights is a 2012 psychological supernatural thriller film [3] written, directed, produced and edited by Rodrigo Cortés and starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones, Joely Richardson, and Elizabeth Olsen. The plot focuses on a physicist (Murphy) and a university psychology professor (Weaver), both of whom ...

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    Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.

    The film opens with two primary characters: university professor and psychologist Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver), who investigates claims of paranormal phenomena, and her assistant Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), a physicist. The audience is provided with an insight into the world of the opening section's primary characters while concurrently o...

    Cillian Murphy as Tom Buckley
    Sigourney Weaver as Margaret Matheson
    Robert De Niro as Simon Silver
    Toby Jones as Paul Shackleton
    The scene in which Margaret Matheson exposes a psychic healer by listening in on a partner feeding him instructions wirelessly was based on the case in which skeptics James Randi and Steve Shaw (be...
    The interception of the wireless transmission and the fake horoscopes handed out in class are taken from James Randi's actual work of exposing frauds.
    In the video lab where Buckley works, there is a copy of the famous poster "I Want To Believe" from The X-Files (1993), but the quote is changed to "I Want To Understand".
    The videos of the parapsychological experiments done with Silver at the university mimic those done in real life with Uri Geller at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s. These experiments a...
  2. Red Lights: Directed by Rodrigo Cortés. With Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones. Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant debunk paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced after many years out of the limelight following the suspicious death of his toughest critic.

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    • Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
    • Rodrigo Cortés
    • 2012-03-02
  3. Meet the talented cast and crew behind 'Red Lights' on Moviefone. Explore detailed bios, filmographies, and the creative team's insights. Dive into the heart of this movie through its stars and ...

  4. Details: 2012, Rest of the world, Cert 15, 113 mins Direction: Rodrigo Cortes Genre: Drama / Thriller Summary: A young assistant to an experienced paranormal investigator starts to get too close ...

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    Red Lights. Margaret Matheson and her assistant, Tom Buckley, study claims of paranormal activity with the intention of exposing frauds. This leads to an investigation of a famous blind psychic who has been out of the public eye for 30 years, but whose re-emergence has created a frenzy of interest. Matheson had contact with the man years before ...

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  7. Professional skeptics (Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver) try to prove that a famous psychic (Robert De Niro) is lying about his ability. Director Rodrigo Cortés Producer Adrián Guerra, Rodrigo ...

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