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The Prophecies is a 2024 American psychological drama film written, co-produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Anne Hathaway, Katherine Waterston, Will Patton, Donald Glover, Michael Keaton, and Charlize Theron. Its story follows a private investigative journalist who decides to take matters into her own hands after witnessing an unknown spiritual presence in a red fog. The Prophecies opened in theaters on February 12th, 2024; the film received critical acclaim, with praise for its direction, visuals, Hans Zimmer's musical score, atmosphere, plot twist, cinematography, performances (particularly Hathaway, Waterston, and Theron), story, and emotional weight. It was also a box-office success, grossing $948 million worldwide. Hathaway, Shyamalan, and Zimmer were nominated for three Academy Awards, with Hathaway and Zimmer winning Best Actress and Best Original Score, respectively.
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  • misterwolf Plot: A mother of two daughters is reported missing; she was last seen in the Bismarck interstate. Her younger daughter, Audrey, makes a vow with her sister Vanessa to find her by any means necessary.

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  • misterwolf Twenty years later, Audrey and Vanessa are both private investigators who work for an unscrupulous boss named Vincent Michaels. Audrey witnesses a red fog, and senses an unknown presence within it; she and Vanessa scarcely recognize the spiritual form, but they deny it, knowing that it is impossible. The spirit discloses several prophecies of the two: they are destined to find the truth about their mother, they will both become the next bosses in their workplace as a means to ruin Michaels and his career, and they are going to investigate their mother's disappearance. They initially find this delusional, but after they discover that they are in Bismarck's interstate, and that they unintentionally left the fog to get there, they realize that they have no choice but to accept their fates. The sisters find multiple crashed cars and see the skeletons of each victim; They find their mother's car, but her body is nowhere to be found, indicating that she may be alive.

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  • misterwolf The sisters come to terms with their prophecies about their own future, and after they are denied permission to investigate their personal case, they take matters into their own hands and do it themselves. Martin Vance, a childhood friend to the sisters, agrees to help them after he gives them a letter from their mother. The letter says "Never forget that you two girls are the light of my life, now and always. Love Mama". Audrey and Vanessa's belief that their mother may still be alive increases despite other possibilities, and they dig deeper into the investigation.

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  • misterwolf Audrey and Vanessa split up with Martin in their investigation area to better search for answers, and Martin spots the red fog; the spiritual figure reveals to the sisters that their mother was chased by an assailant. When they ask them if she escaped, they respond "In a way". They suddenly tell the sisters that they love them, which confuses them as they are not a family member.

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  • misterwolf Many weeks later, the spirit has vanished. The sisters visit their dying father, who has been diagnosed with a typhus fever. After they tell him that they are investigating their mother's disappearance, he encourages them to keep going, having deduced that they are so close. He then dies two days later, and he is buried in their traditional cemetery. Audrey contemplates completing her investigation alone, but Vanessa, unwilling to live without her sister, refuses to let her go alone, and reassures her that she deserves help.

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  • misterwolf To ensure the investigation is not interrupted, Martin aids the sisters in getting Michaels fired and arrested by the police, having deduced that he is a crime associate; however, the sisters let Martin run the place until they return to claim the office. In their final investigation of their case, they split up to find the evidence. The red fog approaches, but the spirit is not there; the fog suddenly gives Audrey a vision of what really happened. Deducing that they are back in the Bismarck interstate, the sisters decide to search their mother's car once again. Audrey spots the driver's window being smashed, and when she looks down from it, she locates a decomposed skeleton. Remembering that she and Vanessa vaguely recognized the form of that spirit in the fog, and recalling the spirit saying that they love the two, Audrey finally realizes that their mother did not survive her own disappearance, and has been the spirit who prophesied her and Vanessa. The sisters tearfully acknowledge the fact that their mother was murdered by the same assailant that her spirit mentioned, and they correspond with her one more time. They assure her that they will see her again, and she happily passes on.

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  • misterwolf In the climax, the sisters claim the executive office and they take charge of their workplace. They tell Martin about their discovery, and he comforts them after he hears the part where their mother has been dead the entire time. The sisters then look outside their window and beyond the horizon of Bismarck as the end credits roll.

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  • misterwolf End Credits: THE PROPHECIES | Written for the Screen and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | Produced by Barry Mendel and M. Night Shyamalan | Edited by Kirk M. Morri | Visual Effects by John Knoll | Costumes Designed by Michael Wilkinson | Executive Producer: Zack Snyder | Executive Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer | Executive Producer: Frank Welker | Cinematography by Michael Seresin | Music by Hans Zimmer | Casting by Sarah Finn | Anne Hathaway | Katherine Waterston | Will Patton | Donald Glover | Michael Keaton | and Charlize Theron

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