The Little Stranger(2018)

Focus Features

R
1h 51m

Release Date: Aug 31, 2018 | Limited

After a doctor is called to visit a crumbling manor, strange things begin to occur.

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Releases

Original Release | Aug 31, 2018

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Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$401,563
Total US & Canada:
$713,143
Total International
$1,111,759
Total Worldwide:
$1,824,902

Director & Top Cast

Lenny Abrahamson
Director

Domhnall Gleeson
Dr. Faraday

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Ireland

Summaries

Storyline

THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants--mother, son and daughter--are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and disturbingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own. — Focus Features Oscar-nominated Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's horror mystery is an adaptation of Welsh novelist Sarah Waters' 2009 gothic novel of the same name. In 1947, a stoic doctor (Domhnall Gleeson) arrives at Hundreds Hall manor to investigate a reported haunting. He soon finds that the ghosts surrounding the Ayers family (Charlotte Rampling, Ruth Wilson, and Will Poulter) have bearings on his own past. Dr. Faraday, a country physician of humble beginnings, is called to Hundreds Hall, an 18th-century estate, in 1947 to attend to the maid, Betty. As a boy, he and his mother, a former maid, had been admitted to the house during the 1919 Empire Day party. Enamored with the house, he broke off an ornamental acorn from a mirror frame, causing his mother to slap him for vandalism. The Hall now belongs to Roderick Ayres, a scarred Royal Air Force veteran. The elderly Mrs Ayres also lives there with her daughter Caroline. Upon arriving, Dr Faraday observes the house has decayed over the years and the family is in severe financial straits. During a house party Dr Faraday attends, a couple brings their young child, who is mauled by Caroline's previously-gentle Labrador retriever. Dr. Faraday later meets with Roderick, who claims there is a supernatural force in the house that hates him. Dr Faraday takes this as evidence of Roderick being of unsound mind, and becomes alarmed when he learns Roderick is planning a land sale. Roderick accosts Dr Faraday about intruding into the Ayres' affairs. Roderick later sets fire to his room and is committed to an asylum. Dr Faraday resolves to stay and care for the Ayres. He becomes romantically involved with Caroline, despite her being of a higher social class..