***SPOILERS*** It's when young New Orleans attorney Emily Parker, Anne Heche, got an engagement ring from her soon to be husband, whom she only knew for about a month, Billy Boy Hytner, Jonathan Lapagila, that the dead or murdered of long ago were suddenly awakened. It wasn't long that Emily started seeing things in the form of this ghost-like woman who started making ghostly appearances only to her everywhere she went! As it turned out it was the engagement ring that was the reason behind all these strange events in Emily's life. That together with Emily having been institutionalized at an early age, after her parents were tragically killed in a car accident, which somehow had her become psychic because of her mental illness and be able to pick up vibrations as well as images of dead people!
As Emily gets clues from her contact from the world beyond she soon finds out that the person is the disembodied sprite of Marie Slanger, Leigh Jones, who disappeared back in 1969 with only her ring finger and engagement ring being recovered in the woods by a teenage couple who were, this at the hight of the free love era, busy making out! The biggest surprise comes much later when Emily in uncovering a photo of her future mother-in-law the boozy, and she is for a good reason, Beth Hytner, Kathleen Quinlan, which has her and Marie Salnger in it!
Emily following the clues that the ghostly Marie is giving her tracks down her former lover the former flower and love child, now in his early 60's, Paul Hamlin, Chris Sarandon, who was the prime suspect in her death or disappearance! Having been let off the hook by a jury because of lack of evidence Paul has lived with the suspicion by everyone involved in his murder case that he got a lucky break in that Marie's body was never found.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It when Emily sees the reclusive Paul that she realizes there's a reason that Marie's ghost guided her to him. It was through Paul that Emily connected the dead Marie to her fiancée's parents! In fact it was Billy Boy's old man John Hytner, David Andrews, who was getting it on hot and heavy with Marie back in the late 1960's just before she disappeared! Something that Mr.Hytner's old lady Beth knew about and was the reason for her having hit the bottle ever since!
Pretty good made for TV movie with an outstanding performance by Anne Heche good enough for her to have gotten an Academedy Award nomination, if the film was theatrically released, as Emily Parker the girl with the sixth sense! The ability to see dead people! The only thing about the film that let it down a notch or two was the what looked like 30 or so year-old Billy Boy Hytner parents John & Beth Hytner! They were so young looking that you could have easily mistaken them for Billy Boy's brother and sister instead of his mom and dad!
As Emily gets clues from her contact from the world beyond she soon finds out that the person is the disembodied sprite of Marie Slanger, Leigh Jones, who disappeared back in 1969 with only her ring finger and engagement ring being recovered in the woods by a teenage couple who were, this at the hight of the free love era, busy making out! The biggest surprise comes much later when Emily in uncovering a photo of her future mother-in-law the boozy, and she is for a good reason, Beth Hytner, Kathleen Quinlan, which has her and Marie Salnger in it!
Emily following the clues that the ghostly Marie is giving her tracks down her former lover the former flower and love child, now in his early 60's, Paul Hamlin, Chris Sarandon, who was the prime suspect in her death or disappearance! Having been let off the hook by a jury because of lack of evidence Paul has lived with the suspicion by everyone involved in his murder case that he got a lucky break in that Marie's body was never found.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It when Emily sees the reclusive Paul that she realizes there's a reason that Marie's ghost guided her to him. It was through Paul that Emily connected the dead Marie to her fiancée's parents! In fact it was Billy Boy's old man John Hytner, David Andrews, who was getting it on hot and heavy with Marie back in the late 1960's just before she disappeared! Something that Mr.Hytner's old lady Beth knew about and was the reason for her having hit the bottle ever since!
Pretty good made for TV movie with an outstanding performance by Anne Heche good enough for her to have gotten an Academedy Award nomination, if the film was theatrically released, as Emily Parker the girl with the sixth sense! The ability to see dead people! The only thing about the film that let it down a notch or two was the what looked like 30 or so year-old Billy Boy Hytner parents John & Beth Hytner! They were so young looking that you could have easily mistaken them for Billy Boy's brother and sister instead of his mom and dad!