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The Legend of Lucy Keyes

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Being a big fan of Urban & Rural Legend, when I read about The Legend of Lucy Keyes- I knew I had to see this movie. The movie is about a family who moves from the big city to the confines of a small New England town. Little do they know that their new home once belonged to the Keyes family, a family who experienced the great loss of their daughter some 250 years ago. Based on the true story of Lucy Keyes, this 'independent' psychological thriller delivers the goods in some ways better than those films made in Hollywood. I loved it. John Stimpson directs, with an all-star cast with the likes of Brooke Adams, Justin Theroux, Julie Delpy, and Mark Boone Junior.

If you're looking for a good movie to watch during Halloween- this is, definitely, one to watch.

To learn more about this great film, go to http://www.lucykeyes.com .

The story is good - as most local legend stories go. There is a subplot which makes it interesting. You can tell the actors who are not familiar with the area - the ones who call WestMINster Road "Westmin-is-ter" Road. I would have thought someone in proofing or the writers might have noticed this. We New Englanders are used to unusual sounding names for our roads, mountains, and towns.

This movie tried to be suspenseful and mysterious, but these were just to few and far between. It puzzles me that someone thought the kids were whiney, because you hardly heard from them. I think what many people forget in a movie like this, where it's 'supposedly' based on a true story, you're only going to get so much out of it. Fiction is one thing, but non-ficiton is a whole new ballgame.

DVD Audio is out of synch! It was hard to watch the film with the lip movement not matching the audio. I dont know if it was bad DVD compression or what.

The movie as a whole is generally good, and the features are a nice bonus as well. The only flaw is the audio being messed up.

This movie is interesting for people who live in Princeton, MA. You get glimpses of your town, fire & police. The legend behind the movie is interesting as well. The movie is good, the ending a little dragged out. It lost me at the end, because it was so fictional. However, the parts where the true story was unfolded was interesting and well done. I live in Princeton myself and the person before who stated that this should be pulled of the shelf needs to calm down. I've only lived here a short time and I've noticed two sides to Princeton. One side- "high-class" (as they stated), snobby, rich. Other Side- Friendly, earthy, farm owners, very in tough with nature. I guess it just depends on what part of Princeton you're living in. As for the movie, well done. Making a movie must be tough & it's no one's right to make such rude comments about someone's passion and their projects. A lot of work probably went into this & I watch whenever it's aired on t.v.

This movie was really really good. Great for a teen age Halloween party. I am from Worcester mass and it was filmed nearby in Princeton. I am looking forward to seeing more from this young writer director John Stimpson.

Kept me on the edge of my seat and I jumped off a few times. beautifully filmed and told. Highly recommend!

Having lived in the town that this movie took place it, it really portrayed what happened a long time ago, with a twist. Great, great movie.

They say the film is based on the real events about a missing 4-year-old girl Lucy, who lived in rural New England about 250 years ago. In "The Legend of Lucy Keyes" writer and director John Stimpson creates a fictional story about the Cooley family (Julie Delpy, Justin Thetoux, Cassidy Hincke and Kathleen Regan), who just arrived in the rural town for their father's work of the windmill project, and the director connects the contemporary fiction about the urban family to the facts about Lucy Keyes and the mystery surrounding her.

The concept looks brilliant on paper, but as the film goes on, we notice it doesn't work as it looked at first. The biggest problem is the story of the Cooleys, which is saddled with many familiar items seen in the films about haunted house or horror films in general. An old lady warns against the new project, and says the place where the windmills are to be built is haunted. A strange neighbor does something weird and annoying - heap of clam bellies - and again warns the Cooleys that they don't know anything about the woods. When Delpy's mother wants to research the local history, she is seen turning pages in the library. Why doesn't she just leave the town with her daughters is more mysterious than the entire plot of the film.

Things get worse, however, as what you know will happen will not happen very fast. The story is repetitious, the stock characters as I mentioned above appear one too many times and the film's overall pace is too slow. Once we know the drift of the story, it does not surprise us any more. The truths about the missing Lucy are revealed as another Lucy's story unfolds, but frankly I didn't find the latter interesting very much, and the neat conclusion requires enormous leap of faith even by the standard of occult thriller.

To me the greatest attraction of "The Legend of Lucy Keyes" was the film's star Julie Delpy, whose previous works include such as fantastic "Before Sunrise" and equally wonderful "Before Sunset," and embarrassingly bad "An American Werewolf in Paris." I just don't understand why Paris-born Julie Delpy should be cast as mother of two daughters living in New England while Jeanne's role doesn't need to be French. Also, I admire her beauty and am ready to admit acting talent, but I don't think screaming or being terrified is not her forte. And Justin Theroux is not required to do much.

"The Legend of Lucy Keyes" is mildly entertaining with its authentic locations. But perhaps the real legend of New England would be more interesting than the film itself.

The movie is well made but how many times can they make a movie about city folks moving into a farm and stir up local ghosts? I'd give the movie a higher mark if not for dozens of movies I have already seen with the same old premise. I heard that it's based on a real legend but this is not good enough reason to make a movie about it.