A perfect, gentle ghost movie.

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 1999)

Like many suspense thrillers, but for reasons other than the usual, please try to see or hear as little about this movie as you can before seeing it. It's certainly not all surprises, it's much better than that, but why spoil those that are there? This movie is so wonderfully restrained and subtle. Dialogue is unobvious and genuine. The most interesting thing about this for me was that I left the film not thinking only "What a great ghost story flick.", but also "What a nice relationship movie!" In fact that's what stayed with me, which is not what one usually expects from such a film. Early in the movie there appears trouble for the relationship between Bruce Willis's character and that of his wife, a thing which annoyed me, because as subplots, these things usually detract and end badly or through cliche. Not so here. Everything works in this movie. Everything.