After another prophetic vision in which Frank tells Tom that 'they're going to kill you and Maggie both,' Tom finds that Adam has shot himself in Frank's home and is in critical condition.ĭuring an afternoon walk, Jake and Maggie encounter a funeral where Chicago policemen are saluting in a ceremony a policeman named Neil recognizes Jake's unique talent and invites Tom to a private gathering of like-minded people to learn more about what is happening to his son.

This attracts the attention of his landlord Harry Damon, Tom's friend, Frank McCarthy and their respective sons Kurt Damon and Adam McCarthy, who all dismiss Samantha as a runaway teen. Tom becomes obsessed with Samantha and begins probing members of the community about her disappearance. When Tom and Maggie confront her, Debbie angrily questions them about her sister Samantha, explaining that she had an intellectual disability, with the mental capacity of an eight-year-old and thus a child's tendency to trust strangers. Tom senses Jake is in danger and sees strange flashes of red light that lead him to the Metra station where Debbie is speaking with her mother about Jake. Debbie gets upset and snatches Jake, running off with him in the night. While Tom and Maggie attend a high-school football game, Jake is overheard by his babysitter, Debbie, as he speaks with Samantha.

Tom then begins experiencing visions of a violent scuffle involving a girl who he learns is Samantha Kozac, a 17-year-old that disappeared from the neighborhood six months prior. After putting him under, Lisa plants a post-hypnotic suggestion in Tom urging him to 'be more open-minded'. At a party one evening, Tom challenges Maggie's sister, Lisa, who is a believer in paranormal activity, to hypnotize him.

Tom Witzky is a phone lineman living in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie and his son Jake, who possesses the ability to commune with the dead, although neither Tom nor Maggie yet know about Jake's special ability. Stir of Echoes was released in the United States on September 10, 1999. In the film, telephone worker Tom Witzky (Bacon) begins experiencing a series of frightening visions after being hypnotized by his sister-in law, Lisa (Douglas). The film stars Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas and Kevin Dunn. Stir of Echoes is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David Koepp and based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson.

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