Donovan's Echo

2011
PG-13
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

After a long absence, Donovan Matheson (Danny Glover) returns home to discover events from his past are repeating. Plagued by the idea of dÃ©jÃ vu, Donovan is convinced his young neighbour and her mother will be killed on the 30th anniversary of his own wife and daughter's death. Struggling to unlock the pattern, Donovan tries to convince his brother-in-law, Finnley (Bruce Greenwood) to help prevent a similar tragedy. When his facts don't add up, Donovan's sanity is questioned.

Is he losing his mind, or running out of time?

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A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations

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Trivia
The shooting schedule was a tight twenty days, considering the multiple locations, stunt work, and budget.

Goofs
In the newspaper clipping Donovan pulls out near the beginning of the movie, there is a typo. It says "Police and ambulances responded quickly to the seen.. (should be "scene").

Connections
Featured in Starfilm (2017)

Soundtracks
That Girl
Written by Richard Markmann, Dan Pinella (as Daniel Pinella) and Christopher Wagner
Performed by Matter

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Schmaltz but the right kind, mixed with a bit of suspense

Maybe even a 7/10.

Danny Glover has been in so many garbage films and series that he has become a bit of an underrated actor. In this film at least he gets to be the focus, and show us some of his ability. Also the child supporting lead is not the usual vile little snot-nosed thing, instead she's quite restrained and engaging.

But overall, this film is so 'un-demanding', when really it should be an edge-of-the seat jobby. For some reason it just fails to scare.

It's not boring, it's just ... more innocuous than it should be. We watched it late at night before work, and it made almost no emotional impression whatsoever.

All of which makes it sound like a bad film!

It's not, it's got a good little story and a couple of nice twists.

You could sum it up by "I didn't mind it."