There is a general rule of thumb that the more characters have to explain story elements, the less good the movie is. And this one certainly is in that category. The story had no real "snap" to it, but the characters kept things interesting enough to keep watching. It is a movie where no one is what they seem to be when we are first introduced to them.
Selma Blair is simply Abigail. She lives in an expensive apartment at Columbus Circle in New York but never leaves and the shades are usually drawn to keep it dark inside. The man at the desk has never seen her even though he has been there several years. He communicates with her via notes under the door.
It turns out she is heiress to a very large fortune, and tries to buy the apartment across the hall when it becomes vacant after the death of its elderly owner. But before she has a chance to a couple move in, Amy Smart as Lillian Hart and her boyfriend Jason Lee as Charles Stratford. They are a discomfort to Abigail right away, with their loud arguments, and she witnesses, via the peephole, Charles beating Lillian. So she does the neighborly thing, drags her into her own to comfort her.
Giovanni Ribisi is Detective Frank Giardello who shows up to investigate the death of the elderly woman, he thinks it may not have been an accident when she fell from her upper floor to her death. Kevin Pollak is Klandermann, the man at the front desk. Beau Bridges is Abigail's doctor and old family friend Dr. Raymond Fontaine .
It turns out that Abigail was not really her name, and almost everyone else was after her fortune.
Many of the cast members were producers and/or writers for this movie. There is some good and some bad in that.
SPOILERS: The couple that moved in were responsible for the elderly lady's death, as part of their ruse to get close to Abigail. The couple's fights were fakes, to gain access to her apartment, so they could install a spy bot on her computer to steal her banking password. They even killed Dr. Fontaine to keep him quiet. They planned to steal her millions and skip the country. But in a fake argument where the man was shot with blanks, Abigail "defended" Lillian, stabbing Charles to death. Later when Abigail discovered she had been duped she managed to transfer funds out of her account right as Lillian was at the bank to withdraw them, all that was left was $7.52. Her plan was foiled, her boyfriend was dead.
Selma Blair is simply Abigail. She lives in an expensive apartment at Columbus Circle in New York but never leaves and the shades are usually drawn to keep it dark inside. The man at the desk has never seen her even though he has been there several years. He communicates with her via notes under the door.
It turns out she is heiress to a very large fortune, and tries to buy the apartment across the hall when it becomes vacant after the death of its elderly owner. But before she has a chance to a couple move in, Amy Smart as Lillian Hart and her boyfriend Jason Lee as Charles Stratford. They are a discomfort to Abigail right away, with their loud arguments, and she witnesses, via the peephole, Charles beating Lillian. So she does the neighborly thing, drags her into her own to comfort her.
Giovanni Ribisi is Detective Frank Giardello who shows up to investigate the death of the elderly woman, he thinks it may not have been an accident when she fell from her upper floor to her death. Kevin Pollak is Klandermann, the man at the front desk. Beau Bridges is Abigail's doctor and old family friend Dr. Raymond Fontaine .
It turns out that Abigail was not really her name, and almost everyone else was after her fortune.
Many of the cast members were producers and/or writers for this movie. There is some good and some bad in that.
SPOILERS: The couple that moved in were responsible for the elderly lady's death, as part of their ruse to get close to Abigail. The couple's fights were fakes, to gain access to her apartment, so they could install a spy bot on her computer to steal her banking password. They even killed Dr. Fontaine to keep him quiet. They planned to steal her millions and skip the country. But in a fake argument where the man was shot with blanks, Abigail "defended" Lillian, stabbing Charles to death. Later when Abigail discovered she had been duped she managed to transfer funds out of her account right as Lillian was at the bank to withdraw them, all that was left was $7.52. Her plan was foiled, her boyfriend was dead.