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Synopsis: When a high school student, Matt ( John Patrick Amedori ), collapses during an exam House's ( Hugh Laurie ) team eventually suspects he has been poisoned, likely from a pesticide used while tending to his garden. However, that theory is thrown for a loop when another student ( Ulysses Lee ) comes into the emergency room with similar symptoms and seems to have nothing in common with the first patient. Complicating things is Matt's overprotective mother ( Roxanne Hart ), who refuses to let House's staff treat her son. My Thoughts: Matt's mother is portrayed as being unreasonable , but I kind of agreed with her. It wasn't as though she was simply refusing a treatment the doctors knew would cure her son. They nearly killed him, made a second wrong diagnosis that could have also resulted in him being killed and weren't 100 percent sure about the last treatment. Waiting for a second opinion from the CDC didn't seem like such a bad idea. In fact, I'm ...

Synopsis: After cutting her hand receiving stitches on her birthday, Angela begins behaving strangely and eventually causes a car accident that leaves her in a coma for 40 days. After waking up, she behaves even more strangely and is ultimately committed to a psychiatric hospital. However, the Vatican believes the only way to help her is with an exorcism. Who's in it? The movie stars Olivia Taylor Dudley , John Patrick Amedori , Dougray Scott , Michael Pena and Peter Andersson . Review: Since yesterday evening was one of the few evenings my wife and I didn't have a lot going on, I decided to find a movie to watch while eating dinner. Even though this isn't the type of film I would normally watch (too many subpar ripoffs of The Exorcist out there) I decided to give it a try. It ended up being an OK movie but honestly could have been better. My biggest problem with this film is it ended up being kind of predictable. As I indicated before, most exorcism movies are essentiall...