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2	''The Messengers'' is a 2007 horror film starring a then relatively-unknown Creator/KristenStewart.
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4	Roy Solomon (Creator/DylanMcDermott), his wife Denise (Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller), their teenage daughter Jessica (Creator/KristenStewart), and their little son Ben move from UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} to an old farm in UsefulNotes/NorthDakota. The family is struggling financially because Roy has been unemployed for a long time. There was also a car accident that has caused serious problems for Ben. Roy plants sunflowers and hires the stranger Burwell to help him until the harvest. When Jess sees ghosts and poltergeists in the house, her parents do not believe her. She tries to prove that she is not insane or seeking attention and discovers the fate of the former owners.
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7	!!''The Messengers'' contains examples of:
8	* AdultsAreUseless: Naturally, since Jess and Ben are the only ones who can see the ghosts at first, the adults don't believe them when they try to warn them what's happening.
9	* BigBad: [[spoiler:John Burwell/John Rollins, whom the ghosts were trying to warn the Solomons about.]]
10	* CreepyGood: [[spoiler: The ghosts are unsettling ''at best''. But it's later revealed that Burwell is really the Rollins' patriarch who murdered his family in a fit of madness. So in reality, these creepy ghosts are trying to warn the Solomons about him.]]
11	* CrossCastRole: Then child actress Creator/JodelleFerland was Michael, a boy.
12	* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, everyone is shown to be living happily. Jess is smiling, Ben is speaking, and the sunflowers are ready for a good harvest. However, crows start flocking around the farm...]]
13	* FamilyExtermination: [[spoiler:It turns out John murdered his wife and children, leaving only him.]]
14	* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: The Ghosts aren't bad, they're just trying to either ward off the Solomons or warn them about John.]]
15	* InvisibleToAdults: At first only Ben and Jessica can see and feel the ghosts.
16	* MaskOfSanity: [[spoiler: John Rollins previously killed his family in a fit of madness due to his collective issues. Afterwards, he repressed his memories of the murder and adopted a new identity as John Burwell. So when he comes up to Roy, he comes off as a normal man who just happens to have advice on growing sunflowers. It's only after he's attacked by the flock of crows that he regains his memories and his former persona resurfaces.]]
17	* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Jessica is a girl in her late teens, with her younger brother Ben a toddler who still uses a crib.
18	* {{Prequel}}: The 2009 film ''Messengers 2: The Scarecrow'', staring Creator/NormanReedus, is billed as a "prequel" though you'll have a hard time finding a connection between the two films.

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