Ok, starts off as a mystery, possible ghost supernatural trance. Then it devolves into a conspiracy, identical lookalike pretending to be a dead person, with lots of fill in plot nonsense, with the worst soap opera acting and plotting.
So, here's the story: 1, Rich woman's new husband kills his wife's daughter, because she didn't want to develop her fathers land, and also kills her boyfriend, to make it look like a murder suicide. The boyfriends body is never found. He may have fallen into the river. Who knows, who cares!
2, The husband then develops the land, and his son from another marriage happens to meet an identical lookalike of the murdered daughter, and convinces this woman that he is the boyfriend and that he need her help to clear his name. So, she goes along with him, and pretends to be possessed by the murdered girl for periods of time and try to get her hands on the girl's diaries that contain evidence of the boyfriend's innocence. Yes, this freaking movie is unbelievable and convoluted. This girl now shows up in town just in time for the 1 year memorial of the dead girl, and everyone ties to act shocked.
3, We have a reporter trying to help the girl figure out what's going on, along with the audience. Main question is, why the hell did anyone even bother making this boring pile of mess? We have a dirtbag sheriff, that may or may not be in on the murders, dumb red herring. And we have Terri Garr as the dead girl's mother. Unbelievably stupid character, and dumb performance. She was great in Young Frankenstein, and had a decent role in the original Star Trek. Here, she's a mess. She's clearly limping, where the camera tries to hide the limping.
4, the girl hallucinates and may or may not be possessed. The whole directing and acting is just plain garbage. The dead girls step-father wants the dead girl's diary because of some incriminating evidence. That's why he got his son to impersonate the dead girl's boyfriend.
This is some serious convoluted nonsense. It could never happen. So, the story is crap. The acting is soap opera level. The only way to enjoy this is if you laugh at it. Tons of laughter if you follow those instructions. The best part is at the end. Not only because the movie ends and you are now free to continue with your life. But, Terri Garr, limps outside, after her husband shot his son dead, and says some of the most ridiculous crap that has ever been utter in world history. She says something like "Now we can he happy".
Another thing. All throughout this movie. Tons of clues are given to fill in the blanks. Cheap little bits of dialogue. For example, when Terri Garr went to the bank safe deposit box with Candace Cameron, they bumped into the bank manager. Garr says "I never liked that guy", next thing we see is the bank manager calling Garr's husband. Also, Garr tells us that the safe deposit box is under her maiden name and that her husband doesn't know about it. And what do you know, the husband shows up to interrupt the safe deposit viewing, in a pretense of inviting them to dinner. Garbage, paint by numbers script. Boring dialogue, and boring acting.
If you approach it as a comedy. The rating may be higher. But as it stands this is a failure. F, 1 star. It is of course not the worst movie ever made. That I have to award to a recent viewing of a Meg Ryan film In The Cut, which was offensive in a lot of ways.
Thank you. Good night.
So, here's the story: 1, Rich woman's new husband kills his wife's daughter, because she didn't want to develop her fathers land, and also kills her boyfriend, to make it look like a murder suicide. The boyfriends body is never found. He may have fallen into the river. Who knows, who cares!
2, The husband then develops the land, and his son from another marriage happens to meet an identical lookalike of the murdered daughter, and convinces this woman that he is the boyfriend and that he need her help to clear his name. So, she goes along with him, and pretends to be possessed by the murdered girl for periods of time and try to get her hands on the girl's diaries that contain evidence of the boyfriend's innocence. Yes, this freaking movie is unbelievable and convoluted. This girl now shows up in town just in time for the 1 year memorial of the dead girl, and everyone ties to act shocked.
3, We have a reporter trying to help the girl figure out what's going on, along with the audience. Main question is, why the hell did anyone even bother making this boring pile of mess? We have a dirtbag sheriff, that may or may not be in on the murders, dumb red herring. And we have Terri Garr as the dead girl's mother. Unbelievably stupid character, and dumb performance. She was great in Young Frankenstein, and had a decent role in the original Star Trek. Here, she's a mess. She's clearly limping, where the camera tries to hide the limping.
4, the girl hallucinates and may or may not be possessed. The whole directing and acting is just plain garbage. The dead girls step-father wants the dead girl's diary because of some incriminating evidence. That's why he got his son to impersonate the dead girl's boyfriend.
This is some serious convoluted nonsense. It could never happen. So, the story is crap. The acting is soap opera level. The only way to enjoy this is if you laugh at it. Tons of laughter if you follow those instructions. The best part is at the end. Not only because the movie ends and you are now free to continue with your life. But, Terri Garr, limps outside, after her husband shot his son dead, and says some of the most ridiculous crap that has ever been utter in world history. She says something like "Now we can he happy".
Another thing. All throughout this movie. Tons of clues are given to fill in the blanks. Cheap little bits of dialogue. For example, when Terri Garr went to the bank safe deposit box with Candace Cameron, they bumped into the bank manager. Garr says "I never liked that guy", next thing we see is the bank manager calling Garr's husband. Also, Garr tells us that the safe deposit box is under her maiden name and that her husband doesn't know about it. And what do you know, the husband shows up to interrupt the safe deposit viewing, in a pretense of inviting them to dinner. Garbage, paint by numbers script. Boring dialogue, and boring acting.
If you approach it as a comedy. The rating may be higher. But as it stands this is a failure. F, 1 star. It is of course not the worst movie ever made. That I have to award to a recent viewing of a Meg Ryan film In The Cut, which was offensive in a lot of ways.
Thank you. Good night.