Movie-goer dies of apparent heart attack watching ''Passion'' film (Feb 26 - 8:14 am)
Wichita, Kansas (dpa) - A 57-year-old woman died Wednesday after collapsing at a movie theatre during a screening of Mel Gibson's ''The Passion of the Christ,'' a graphic movie about the last 12 hours of the life of Christ.
Peggy Scott was attending a morning showing of the movie in the Midwestern city of Wichita, Kansas, when she collapsed about 20 minutes before the movie was to end, the Wichita Eagle reported.
The movie was stopped and two physicians who also were watching the movie tried to revive Scott, Ken Crockett, general manager of the theatre, told the newspaper. She was taken to a hospital by ambulance where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the exact cause of death.
Doctors declined to say whether the apparent heart attack was caused by her emotional reaction to the film or whether other factors were involved. Kansas television station KAKE said Scott collapsed at the film's emotional high point.
Critics are calling Gibson's film, filled with the graphic torture and death of Christ, extremely violent and gory. The movie is expected to become the biggest box-office Bible film ever.
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