The Skeleton Key
“Fearing is believing.”
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Skeleton Key performed
Budget
$43.0M
Worldwide Gross
$94.0M
Gross Profit
$51.0M
Return
2.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$14M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Caroline Ellis
Kate Hudson
Caroline Ellis
Violet Devereaux
Gena Rowlands
Violet Devereaux
Luke Marshall
Peter Sarsgaard
Luke Marshall
Ben Devereaux
John Hurt
Ben Devereaux
Jill
Joy Bryant
Jill
Bayou Woman
Marion Zinser
Bayou Woman
Mama Cynthia
Maxine Barnett
Mama Cynthia
Hallie
Fahnlohnee R. Harris
Hallie
Desk Nurse
Deneen Tyler
Desk Nurse
C.N.A.
Ann Dalrymple
C.N.A.
Nurse Trula
Trula M. Marcus
Nurse Trula
Madeleine Thorpe
Jen Apgar
Madeleine Thorpe
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