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RED LIGHTS Sigourney Weaver Interview

http://www.facebook.com/RedLightsUK www.momentumpictures.co.uk/ www.facebook.com/MomentumPicturesUK A brilliant paranormal investigator and her faithful assistant must face their deepest fears in RED LIGHTS, a riveting thriller that follows a sometimes-harrowing journey into the world of the supernatural and the minds of the scientists who try to explain it. When the razor-witted DR. MARGARET MATHESON (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant TOM BUCKLEY ( Cillian Murphy) set up a laptop, infrared camera and measuring apparatus to observe a séance at a remote mansion, the stage is set for them to solve the paranormal mystery that is terrorizing the residents. Then it begins—violent crashing sounds, the table levitating, the medium sweating. It's an awesome display of supernatural power. Or so it seems. But for Matheson and Tom, it's just another day on the job as paranormal investigators dedicated to exposing hoaxes. When Matheson and Tom aren't training college students in the art and science of spotting fakes, they're out in the field exposing them: a mother who insists her child can do "automatic painting," for example, or a faith healer who uses electronic gadgetry to prey on the vulnerable. But one psychic poses the ultimate challenge for skeptical science: the world-famous SIMON SILVER (Robert De Niro). Charismatic, blind and possibly dangerous, Silver vanished from the spotlight years earlier after a journalist critical of him mysteriously died. Now, amid frenzied media attention, he is staging a comeback, touring cities and drawing huge crowds as he showcases his mind-boggling powers. But for Matheson and Tom, Silver's return casts a dark shadow.. It immediately drives a wedge between them. Tom sees it as a golden opportunity; if he and Matheson can prove Silver a fraud, it will be a huge professional coup. But Matheson refuses to investigate Silver, she's still recovering from the emotional damage caused by a stunt he pulled years earlier that exploited a deep personal secret of hers.. Silver's return reopens up that old wound, but the more Matheson resists investigating him, the more vehemently Tom insists on it. When Tom finally breaks ranks with Matheson to investigate Silver alone, chaos ensues. As he secretly observes one of Silver's theater performances from a specially concealed press box, Silver throws a terrifying blind stare his way. Tom's instruments explode and the house lights go black. Far worse, that same night, Matheson collapses at the college lab. And when she dies soon afterwards, Tom launches into an obsessive quest to find out if Silver is the real deal, tracking him across town and forcing his way onto a scientific panel that will subject Silver to rigorous testing. It's a journey that leads Tom through a series of nightmarish psychic encounters, culminating in a spectacular showdown with Silver before a packed theater audience and forcing Tom to confront some loaded questions: If Silver isn't a fake, what can explain the bizarre things Tom witnesses? And more terrifyingly, if Silver is a fake, could it be that someone else is creating these phenomena—perhaps without even knowing it?