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1. (2004) I have been living in the Paris Opera House since my father died. The Angel of Music has been my teacher for so long, but now he is getting more demanding. To further complicate things, my childhood sweetheart, Raoul, is back and we are in love - a fact which has angered the Angel enormously. You learn about my death at the very end of the movie, after the main conflict is already resolved.
2. (1983) My name is Alex, and although you never really see much of me onscreen, because I killed myself before the movie begins, I am the driving force which has brought all my college friends back together for my funeral. They spend the weekend together, getting to know each other all over again, and learning that life has not turned out the way that any of them had expected.
3. (2001) My rape and murder at the hands of a psychopath caused my husband to lose control and kill the man responsible. Years later a man going by the name of Prot manages to convince the patients in a psychiatric ward that he is from another planet. His claim that he will be soon returning there is so convincing that the patients are all on their best behaviour, because he has promised to take one of them back with him. His psychiatrist does a little research and determines that he is indeed my husband, who is still tortured by those events from when I was murdered...or is he really who he claims to be?
4. (2004) While our deaths occurred long before the story told in this film, it was our betrayal by one of our friends that is central to the entire plot. Falsely accused of orchestrating that betrayal, and of murdering innocent bystanders, our friend Sirius was imprisoned. After years in that horrible jail, he learned that the man actually responsible for those crimes was alive, despite all evidence to the contrary. He managed to escape so that he could track the real culprit down. However because the real rogue was hiding at Hogwarts, everyone thought that Sirius was trying to murder our son.
5. (1974) My name is Ratchett, and I was drugged, and then murdered in my sleep while travelling across Europe on a very luxurious train. I was stabbed a number of times, each wound seemingly delivered by a different hand. Fortunately for me, the amazing detective Hercule Poirot was also a passenger on the train, and it did not take long for him to discover that my real name was Cassetti, and that I was once involved in the kidnapping and murder of young Daisy Armstrong. I can't say that I was very pleased about how Poirot resolved my murder though.
6. (1991) I lived in the deep south in the 1920s, which was not a place to be if you were interested in women's rights. So when my mother passed on and I learned that I was pregnant, I didn't have many places to turn to for help, to escape my abusive husband. Fortunately my friend Idgie Threadgoode was there to help me out, and she and I started a café together, and together we raised my son. I never knew with any certainty that Idgie didn't kill my husband when he came around looking to reclaim his son, and quite honestly, I didn't care. Idgie was a true friend though, and when I passed on from stomach cancer, I knew that my boy would never be allowed to forget me.
7. (2004) When my ex-husband first started telling me about a man who had accused him of 'stealing his story', I wasn't unduly alarmed. However as Mort started acting more and more strangely, I began to get concerned. The stranger wanted Mort to rewrite the ending of his published work, to make it more like the one he claimed to have written. Unfortunately for me, that meant that I, and my new lover had to die, so that Mort could satisfy the demands of the stranger that lived in his head.
8. (2000) I began haunting Claire Spencer, because I needed her to know that her husband had had an affair with me, and had also murdered me when I became too needy. Luckily Claire soon figured things out, despite the protestations of her lying husband. It was touch and go for a while, when he tried to kill her too. He would rather see her dead than take responsibility for what he'd done to me. Fortunately she prevailed, and now my spirit can finally rest.
9. (2003) My name is Jacob Wood, and I was shot and killed when some man with an axe to grind and easy access to a firearm came blasting through my office on a Monday morning. The trial that ensued when my widow was convinced to bring action against the gun manufacturer was a very important one, because it could set precedent across the country. Fortunately for my wife's sake, one of the jurors and his girlfriend had their own personal agenda, and succeeded in manipulating the jury to rule in our favour.
10. (2003) When highway prostitute Aileen Wuornos is beaten and raped by one of her customers, she kills him in self-defense. Unfortunately she finds that she prefers killing her Johns to actually having sex with them, and we are the luckless six (seven counting the first one who abused her) who she killed and robbed before she was eventually caught, sentenced and put to death in this fact based movie.
11. (1996) My name is Cynthia Swan Griffin, and it was my suicide that inspired my long-lost college friends to join together to seek revenge against the husbands who had abandoned them for younger women. Half-way through their revenge, they realized that their priorities were in the wrong place, and they turned their efforts to helping other women in similar, or worse circumstances. Oh their former husbands still had to pay, but at least it was for a worthy cause.
12. (2003) After being injured in the American Civil War, I found that I didn't want to fight anymore. So I discharged myself from both the hospital and the army, and made my way back to my home. It was a long journey, and I had to be very careful to avoid falling into the hands of the vigilante groups who were out looking to kill deserters. However I was driven by my love for a woman back home, to whom I had barely expressed my feelings, before being called off to fight. Well I made it home, but wasn't there long before I was killed by one of the vigilantes that I had managed to avoid on my long odyssey home.
13. (1995) My name is Matthew Poncelet, and I spend pretty much all of the movie on Death Row, where I await execution for my part murdering two people. When I first reached out to Sister Helen Prejean, I was hoping that she could find a way to stop me from being executed, because I was still claiming that I was innocent of the murders. She was not able to do this, but she did teach me about responsibility and repentance, and hers was the last face that I saw before I died.
14. (1999) My name is Dickie Greenleaf, and I was the victim of a con man who killed me and tried to assume my life. This guy managed to convince my parents that we'd been to school together, so they paid him to come to Europe to try and persuade me to return to the U.S. Once he got here, he attached himself to my girlfriend and me, allowing me to foot the bill for his newfound wealthy lifestyle. It was when we began to tire of him and asked him to leave, that he decided he couldn't go back to his former life of poverty, and tried to assume mine.
15. (1975) As I was just a historian, speaking to the audience about events that happened hundreds of years ago in the Court of King Arthur, I didn't feel that I was in any danger. So imagine my surprise when a knight, in full armour, came galloping by on horseback and slit my throat. It killed me of course, but I at least had the satisfaction of knowing that my murder messed up the end of their quest for the cup of Christ, when the police descended to look for my killer.
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