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| | SPLICEDwire | "Ghost Ship" review (2002) Steve Beck, Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies |
 | | The story unfolds as a mercenary marine salvage tugboat, acting on a tip from an Alaskan postal pilot, comes upon a mysteriously abandoned (and eerily radar-invisible) Italian luxury liner, adrift in a remote corner of the Bering Sea 40 years after it vanished without a trace. |
 | | The tug's crew, lead by salty captain Murphy (Gabriel Byrne) and daredevil jack-of-all-trades Epps (Julianna Margulies), think they've hit the shipwreck jackpot -- until they slowly realize the dark, rusting, creaking, semi-submerged hulk is haunted from mast to keel and bow to stern. |
 | | Creeping along its dark corridors with flashlights, Epps is the first to catch a startling glimpse of a ghostly little girl in a frilly dress (the sweetly angelic yet hypnotically apprehensive Emily Browning) who, in a tantalizing twist on formula, is to become her tormented spirit guide through the terror that ensues. |
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