A Haunting Sleeper!

Rating: 8/10 (26 August 1999)

What a terrific sleeper this haunting ghost story turned out to be. I saw it on opening day (a few weeks ago) before there was much talk about it to spoil any surprises. A real trick is to get people who normally don't see this kind of flick to see it. Too many people (my wife included) think it's a standard creepy flick ("I see dead people.") Armed with an absorbing script, three terrific performances (Toni Collette along with Willis & Osment), and sharply directed, this is one of the better films this year. Would the film industry do right by it, nominating Oscars for the Osment as Best Actor and Willis as Best Supporting Actor??? Probably not, huh!