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Great Psychic Themed Movies

"My personal favorites are FIRST SNOW and THE GIFT.  First Snow in particular demonstrates very nicely how a psychic prediction can be interepeted by a person and how that prediction ultimately unfolds."  - Victoria lynn Weston

FIRST SNOW

A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

Director: Mark Fergus

  Plot
A man desperately tries to keep a strange prediction from coming true in this independent psychological thriller. Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) is a traveling salesmen who is in New Mexico on business when he crosses paths with a psychic. The psychic offers to read Jimmy's fortune, and quickly informs him that he will die before the first snow of the winter. Jimmy's girlfriend, Deirdre (Piper Perabo), doesn't think much of this prediction, but with the winter months on the horizon, this notion makes Jimmy a bit nervous. Jimmy's anxieties grow as the weather suddenly conspires against him and his fate begins taking a number of turns for the worst. Can Jimmy somehow escape his fate, or has he been doomed by the fortune teller's words? The first feature film from director Mark Fergus, First Snow received its North American premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

THE GIFT

 A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.

Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson
 

Plot
Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society girl (Katie Holmes) who was engaged to a local high school principal (Greg Kinnear), she finds her "gift" is as destructive as it is helpful. Many of the townspeople have mixed regard for Annie's abilities, including an abusive husband (Keanu Reeves) and his brutalized wife (Hilary Swank) (the former threatens Annie and her children with taunts that she is a devil) as well as a deeply troubled auto mechanic (Giovanni Ribisi) who may hold a key to the events in question. The Georgia residents soon find themselves all suspects in the investigation, and Annie is forced to confront past demons while still trying to help solve the mystery. The Gift was co-written by Billy Bob Thornton, who appeared in another of Raimi's thrillers, A Simple Plan.

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A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.

Director: Lee Tamahori

Plot
A man with the ability to see the future and change the outcome of events before they occur is forced to choose between saving himself and saving the world in this supernatural thriller starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, The Edge). Cris Johnson (Nicholas Cage) is a Las Vegas magician who possesses the unique ability to witness the events of the immediate future moments before they happen. As a child Cris was subjected to a series of cruel experiments by government scientists and doctors, but a change of name and a new identity allowed the tortured psychic to elude detection and start a new life away from the prying eyes of his former captors. Though his clairvoyant vision only extends a few minutes into the future, it has still allowed Cris to eke out a living as a low-rent Las Vegas magician while earning a little extra cash at the blackjack tables. Up to this point in his life Cris has never used his power for anything substantial, but when he experiences a vision of Los Angeles being incinerated in a nuclear holocaust, the small-time magician realizes that he could hold the key to saving millions of lives. But as low as he has tried to lie in recent years, Cris has never completely escaped detection by the government. Now, as terrorists prepare to unleash the ultimate horror on an unsuspecting city, FBI counter terror agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) sets out to capture Cris and convince him to use his exceptional gift to prevent the nuclear nightmare from becoming a terrifying reality. Jessica Biel, Peter Falk, and Thomas Kretschmann co-star in the film, which is based on a short story by acclaimed sci-fi author Philip K. Dick.

More psychic themed movies to come.  The previous films summaries are from MOVIEFONE and IMDB.

Victoria lynn Weston has produced documentaries including America's Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull, The Intuitive Factor; Genius or Chance features interviews of renowned parapsychologist Jeffrey Mishlove and bestselling author Gary Zukav.

Zoie Films, Inc. was one of the first companies to utilize the internet to host "online film festivals" showcasing independent films, shorts, animations and documentaries from around the globe. Later, utilizing the latest technology, Weston worked with Telco companies in the Pacific Rim and the Netherlands, Victoria lynn Weston launched the first annual Zoie Cellular Cinema Festival 2004. Movies for the cell screen that were also viewed via Sprint subscribers in the US.

Victoria has dabbled in screenwriting; one screenplay that was centered on the life of Victoria Woodhull got the attention of Oliver Stone. She then followed the path to Reality Television, writing a series of psychic themed TV reality proposals including; "World's Greatest Psychic," "Matrix" and "Psychic Eye-Q", which caught the attention of ABC, MTV and Game Show executives.

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Anusha
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Reply #3 on : Wed May 02, 2012, 23:18:55

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- The photography is awomese!! You have an amazing talent and captured all the lighthearted fun and love that is part of this family. You can see the love and joy perfectly captured.Thank you for sharing these.

Victoria
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First Snow
Reply #2 on : Sat July 30, 2011, 09:55:35

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Hi Mars - You MUST watch FIRST SNOW. I really enjoyed the storytelling - it's an independent film, thus you won't find rapid fire editing. It's a good take on how psychics made predictions and how the client thinks it'll unfold one way, but it ultimately is another way!

Mars
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Movies..
Reply #1 on : Mon July 25, 2011, 13:29:04

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I really liked The Gift..but, there really isn't mush Raimi I do not love.. Next had Nick Cage in it.. It left me feeling well.. flat.. didn't suck me in. would be an awesome ability to have though. I am going to look for First Snow.. :)

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