What is the movie The Skeleton Key about?
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 horror-suspense film starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The film focuses on a young hospice nurse who acquires a job at a spooky New Orleans plantation home, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving the house, its former inhabitants, and the hoodoo rituals and magic that took place there. The movie was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2005, and in US cinemas on August 12, 2005. Plot: Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) is a New Orleans hospital aide from Hoboken, New Jersey, who quits her unsatisfying nursing job in the city to take a position as a private hospice caregiver at an isolated plantation house deep in the bayous of southern Louisiana’s eerie, enchanting Terrebonne Parish. The lady of the house, Violet Deveraux (Gena Rowlands) is a diffident, old-fashioned Southern matron in need of help for her husband Ben (played by John Hurt), a severely disabled stroke victim who is expected to die
