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This is an average fair TV movie.

The story is OK. The acting is average. None of the actors really stole the show, but I guess that's what I'm coming to expect from 'made for TV movies.' This is a bit of a whodunnit and it kind of leaves you guessing right up the end. It's low budget and you can tell. However it did keep my interest all the way through, although the whole movie is instantly forgettable. There's nothing new here. It's all been done before. But it's not terrible. It's watchable but incredibly average.

The ending didn't exactly come as a huge shock and there weren't enough twists in this film to take it higher than 6 stars. I guess it's harmless enough and I've watched far worse.

I really thought from the onset that this was going to be yet ANOTHER terrible Vancouver movie but it ended up having a few good twists and turns so I would definitely recommend giving it a shot if you happen to run across it. Laura Harring is in it and she's pretty sexy and is a good actress. The main characters were all good. It's too bad though that these Canadian films always try and look like they're made in the U.S., I can understand as they're trying to appeal to the U.S. market which is 10X Canada's but it's just sort of a shame. They went out of their way to show the side of a cop car that said "Seattle Police" on it and the detective is this middle-aged black dude with that sort of American cop swagger and Bronx kind of accent, you know, a hardened American street cop, but at the end of the film, the camera pans across a grave yard and you clearly see a big maple leaf on one of the graves and it's obviously a Canadian war vets stone -- any Canadian would recognize that from a mile away so that was a bit of a blunder. Anyhow, not a bad film.

My first review and with the warning about spoilers, guess all my reviews here will warn that there might be spoilers.... Anyways, I was stunned to see this written up at mylifetime dot com -- doesn't that mean this is a Lifetime movie?? Usually the people in Lifetime movies know how to *act* or at least pretend like they're acting but NOT in this movie. This could have been a powerful movie that got its message across but the acting was SO bad all I want to do is forget this movie and everyone in it as quickly as possible.

Not only was the acting awful, but the cinematography was totally lifeless and washed out, too. Did they use a cheapie video-cam to shoot this movie? If not, why did they desaturate the colors in the entire movie? It wasn't my TV because the sit-com that came on afterwards looked great.

The whole movie left me shaking my head and wondering what in the world were they thinking - didn't they want people to actually *want* to watch this movie? If so, they completely failed in achieving that goal. :P

Kate Powell served as godmother to little Ellie, the daughter of her neighbors, Annie and Mike Harding. But when Annie is murdered on the night of Halloween, it appears that Kate may have the opportunity to play major role in caring for Ellie and baby Logan. Because Kate is infertile and as she was the person to discover Annie's body, Kate is a suspect in the murder case.

The filmmakers were successful in toggling between Kate and Annie's husband Mike as the culprit. But the angelic nature of Kate allows the viewer to recognize that she would never harm the mother of those two beautiful children.

An especially intriguing character was Tim Powell, the attorney husband of Kate, who is often insensitive to his wife. Tim uses his lawyerly logic to urge his wife not to get too attached to the kids because legally they must remain under the care of Mike and the children's grandparents. But Tim slowly comes around to looking at what would be in the best interest of the kids and viewing the situation from the perspective of his wife.

There is a salient moment in the film when Mike asks Tim if he would like to purchase a sailboat with him. The request oddly comes immediately after the funeral of Annie. Was Mike attempting to move on with his life in thinking about the boat? Or, was his desire to purchase the boat an example of the crass materialism at the heart of Mike at a time when he should have been in bereavement?

The actress playing Kate was especially adept in handling baby Logan with loving care and in showing genuine concern about little Ellie. That devotion was the essence of her character. The love and sensitivity of the Godmother was the heart and soul of this film.