Troubled teenager Marguerite, Sondra Locke, lives an isolated life with her mother, Mary Ure, her grandmother and her many dolls, talking to her alter ego doll named Aaron. Her father, Robert Shaw suddenly arrives with her new partner, Sally Kellerman, seeking a divorce and access to Marguerite. That night there are murders.
The trouble here is that the makers are so determined to make this atmospheric and full of clues and hidden meaning, that there isn't much room for the bones of a solid thriller, which this could easily have been. It's all very melodramatic with average performances all around, although Locke does shine as the paranoid Marguerite and Kellerman seems more grounded than the others. The clues to where this is all going are there to see and in fact the climax is not at all bad, but this does not compensate for a lot of nothing much happenings. Rather dull.
The trouble here is that the makers are so determined to make this atmospheric and full of clues and hidden meaning, that there isn't much room for the bones of a solid thriller, which this could easily have been. It's all very melodramatic with average performances all around, although Locke does shine as the paranoid Marguerite and Kellerman seems more grounded than the others. The clues to where this is all going are there to see and in fact the climax is not at all bad, but this does not compensate for a lot of nothing much happenings. Rather dull.