Things Heard & Seen, a thriller film based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage, premieres on Netflix this Thursday, April 29. Amanda Seyfried and James Norton star as the Clares, a couple who move to Chosen, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley with their young daughter. Brundage's novel, first published in 2016, opens with George Clare seeking help from a neighbor after supposedly discovering Catherine dead from an ax wound. All Things Cease to Appear shifts back in time from there, following the Clares' attempts to milk new lives out of a defunct dairy farm--the site of a double suicide that left the previous tenant's three children orphans. Things Heard & Seen is written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the duo behind American Splendor (2003). The film also stars Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn and F. Murray Abraham.
Elizabeth Brundage is also the author of The Doctor's Wife, Somebody Else's Daughter and A Stranger Like You. Her next novel, The Vanishing Point, which follows two friendly photography students whose lives diverge with deadly results, comes out from Little, Brown on May 18. All Things Cease to Appear is available in paperback from Vintage ($17). --Tobias Mutter
