Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek is a 2005 psychological thriller starring Robert De Niro and a then relatively-unknown Dakota Fanning.

This film is about a psychiatrist named David Callaway, who moves to upstate New York with his daughter, Emily, following the suicide of her mother. While settling into their new home, Emily begins conversing with an imaginary friend named Charlie, while at the same time becoming close to a neighbouring couple who lost their own daughter to cancer.

Emily's irrational behaviour starts to worry David, and things come to a head when a woman he has befriended named Elizabeth is killed while she is playing with Emily. Emily blames the murder on Charlie. David confronts his neighbour, believing him to be "Charlie", and drives him away.

However, a plot twist is soon revealed: - Tropes included:
 * Creepy Child: Emily.
 * Dull Surprise: What some critics have accused De Niro of doing as David.
 * The End or Is It:
 * Expy:
 * Hey It's That Guy: Katherine is Jean Grey, Laura is Det. Howard, the suspicious neighbour is that other Robo Cop and Elizabeth is Jennifer.
 * Mind Screw: In the same vein as.
 * Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book:
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Charlie.
 * There Are No Therapists: There are several therapists, but it doesn't help at all actually.
 * Mind Screw: In the same vein as.
 * Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book:
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Charlie.
 * There Are No Therapists: There are several therapists, but it doesn't help at all actually.
 * There Are No Therapists: There are several therapists, but it doesn't help at all actually.