Product: The Dead Girl (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Provocative
When I rented this movie I didn't realize it was the stories of different women and how one murder links them all. It begins with Toni Collette as a shy caretaker of an abusive old woman. When she finds the body of the murdered woman she is shocked and fascinated. She realizes that life is too short to be sitting in one place letting other people make you feel worthless and she acts. The movie continues with the ME preparing the body. The ME thinks that the dead girl could be her missing sister. Her life and that of her family has been frozen since her sister went missing. Her parents won't accept that their daughter might be dead. This weighs heavily on their remaining daughter who only wants to get on with her life, but this obsession with finding her sister overwhelms her. We also get to meet the dead woman's mother, her roommate, and the dead girl herself. I've never seen a movie quite like this and I found it an interesting character study and mystery.