Predictable But Pretty Good
This is a pretty good made for TV film. It's a ghost story of a woman, Christa, who married George and he adopted his wife's daughter, Jennie, (from a previous marriage) and the daughter drowns. After Jennie drowns, Christa sees Jennie's photo on a billboard and has a car wreck - killing her best friend in the car with her. Christa is under the care of a few psychiatrists for awhile. Christa starts to see her daughter more often, George wants to get Christa some additional mental health help. Another friend of Christa tells her of a psychiatrist who also believes in spirits and bids Christa to go see her. Christa and the physic psychiatrist ends up pressing charges of murder of Jennie against George - a courtroom drama follows. The questions are: Is Christa simply mentally unbalanced due to the loss of her daughter, friend and mother? Did George really kill Jennie or is he being framed?
I rather liked the film. It's something a little different than other ghost stories - and there isn't much 'horror' in the film. The film is a crime-thriller drama and not labeled as horror but easily fits into the paranormal horror genre.
Christopher Reeve is great in this one -great to see him in other projects. (R. I.P. Christopher - miss you). Marg Helgenberger was super good as well. In fact, the entire cast does a great job.
Worth watching if you like ghost stories and/or crime-thrillers.
7/10
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