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3''The Astronaut's Wife'' is a 1999 science fiction/thriller film written and directed by Rand Ravich, starring Creator/JohnnyDepp as an astronaut returning from a space mission and doesn't seem quite [[CameBackWrong right]], as his wife (Creator/CharlizeTheron) suspects something is wrong with him.
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7!!Tropes associated with ''The Astronaut's Wife'':
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9%%* AlienInvasion
10* DeadManWriting: Sherman leaves a videotaped message openly saying "If you're watching this, I'm dead."
11%%* DownerEnding: See Hope Spot.
12* DrivenToSuicide: Natalie Streck, who [[ElectrifiedBathtub electrocutes herself with a radio in the bathtub]] after her husband dies.
13%%* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The alien.]]
14* HopeSpot: When the titular Astronaut's Wife [[spoiler: tricks the alien into thinking she was going to commit suicide, she turns the tables and electrocutes her possessed husband]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: the alien comes out of the husband's body and possesses ''her'']].
15%%* InvisibleAliens: It ''does'' [[spoiler: become visible near the end of the movie.]]
16%%* PuppeteerParasite

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