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A Mother's Instinct (1996)
Lifetime movie: Another good storyline
Husband leaves wife and wife finds another life, another wife in the husband's past while searching for answers to all of his hidden agendas. Good show and good story.
In Dreams (1999)
Film left something to be desired, Questions unanswered
This film started off eerily and gave me an eagerness to be thrilled..however, there was such an unbelievability in much of the film that I was left hungry after many of the segments. Let's start with the scene outside.., the one where Claire goes outside after hearing her daughter laughing. The maid, Mary had JUST left and she didn't see anyone planting an apple on the swing?? and IF Vivian was there, why didn't the detective see him before he himself ran into Claire in the woods near her home? How about the husband going to look for the dog in that abandoned hotel? (I agree with the other commentator that this part was absolutely ridiculous) Why would he go all that way to look for his dog, when he didn't care about the dog the night that Claire caused an accident in the road while chasing the dog? And who was the woman who knew who the dog belonged to well enough to have Claire's number and call her husband to come get the dog?
Now to Vivian.. First, I am disturbed that the reasons behind him being left to die in the "lake" weren't explained, why his mother was so abusive and what happened to his father? What about the treatment in the mental ward?? Why was he given shock treatments? Because he was screaming on a steeple in the middle of the lake?? HELLO... he had just managed to break free of a chain tying him to his bed before drowning..wouldn't you be screaming if this happened to you? And what about that nursery rhyme? Why was he writing that in his room? where had he heard it? What meaning did it have for him?
How about in the hospital when Claire begins tearing up the wallpaper in her room.. do you mean that when the staff comes to get her to talk to the doctor they do not notice the writing on the chalkboard behind the wallpaper enough to let the Doc in on it before he goes to her room to discover it later?
I also didn't really like Robert Downey JR's portrayal of the killer. He was too pouty, too sing songy but not where it was spooky or crazy sounding..he just sounded like a spoiled child. Kevin Spacey would have played this part better..had they explained the psychosis a little more.
Oh yes and you mean to tell me that for all of his 14 or so years (the age he seemed to be when he escaped from the mental ward) he had never once killed someone in the hospital so that he would have been isolated? I mean, it was so easy for him to kill that nurse..he did it without thought.
I love the kind of movies that leave you having to decide for yourself what really happened etc, but not in this manner.. I mean, why not rather just give us a base plot, turn the camera off and leave us to make up the whole movie ourselves?
This movie reminded me of Meet Joe Black in the way that someone had a GREAT idea of a story but failed to follow it all the way through.. I think they need to do this before making the final film.. again, it left me hungry.. like going to a dinner party where they give you an appetizer and tastes of the courses but never the full meal..leaving you wanting more..