A young curious girl, Melissa (Victoria Clare), finds a necklace at a landfill where her Dad (David Lee Smith) is designing a housing development. Afterwards she starts seeing the ghost of a young girl, Dorsan (Savannah Liles/Halliday), leading her on a search for answers for Dorsan's untimely demise.
Victoria Clare delivers a strong performance as the lead Character of Melissa. Actor Morgan Bertsch, who plays Erma, delivered her lines in a way that reminded me of how a neighborhood kid, I knew growing up, actually spoke on a regular basis. Sophie Guest plays the part of Nora, the bratty character, that I actually ended up liking in the end. It was nice to see the cameo's of Linda Blair and Christine Elise in this film as well. I think the entire cast did a great job with their characters.
We are shown some of the pain that the characters are going through and how they are fighting their way through that pain, and readjusting to their lives in a new location. The Dad was my favorite of the two parents, because you can see that he truly loves his little girl just as she is. He supports her and her fascination with things that her Mother doesn't approve of. He is also very empathetic to his wifes feelings and insists on her putting away things, like an art piece, that her Mother might fight upsetting. Her Mother is more the, "Why can't you be normal" type, but that could also be because of her recent loss, and she's inadvertently expressing that without thinking.
The first half of the film we get character development, but the story didn't really seem to take off until the last half of the film. I really wish there had been more adventure shown, from the kids point of view, with them trying to figure out what happened to Dorsan.
Even though the film has an overall melancholy tone, The ending leaves us with closure, and seemed to bring Melissa and her Mother closer.
Overall, I enjoyed this film. I felt like it was shot well and the story had a nice flow to it. The films runtime is just under two hours and, while I am glad it wasn't another one of those films that felt rushed, I feel like it could've been cut down to a shorter runtime and the film would've still been just as enjoyable.
Victoria Clare delivers a strong performance as the lead Character of Melissa. Actor Morgan Bertsch, who plays Erma, delivered her lines in a way that reminded me of how a neighborhood kid, I knew growing up, actually spoke on a regular basis. Sophie Guest plays the part of Nora, the bratty character, that I actually ended up liking in the end. It was nice to see the cameo's of Linda Blair and Christine Elise in this film as well. I think the entire cast did a great job with their characters.
We are shown some of the pain that the characters are going through and how they are fighting their way through that pain, and readjusting to their lives in a new location. The Dad was my favorite of the two parents, because you can see that he truly loves his little girl just as she is. He supports her and her fascination with things that her Mother doesn't approve of. He is also very empathetic to his wifes feelings and insists on her putting away things, like an art piece, that her Mother might fight upsetting. Her Mother is more the, "Why can't you be normal" type, but that could also be because of her recent loss, and she's inadvertently expressing that without thinking.
The first half of the film we get character development, but the story didn't really seem to take off until the last half of the film. I really wish there had been more adventure shown, from the kids point of view, with them trying to figure out what happened to Dorsan.
Even though the film has an overall melancholy tone, The ending leaves us with closure, and seemed to bring Melissa and her Mother closer.
Overall, I enjoyed this film. I felt like it was shot well and the story had a nice flow to it. The films runtime is just under two hours and, while I am glad it wasn't another one of those films that felt rushed, I feel like it could've been cut down to a shorter runtime and the film would've still been just as enjoyable.
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