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    I heard that this movie was slow but had a real good ending.   Ehhh, I kinda' agree.  Yeah, the movie does drag on a bit.  But it's nothing too tedious, and the ending is pretty good, but nothing special.  What hurts the grade of this movie is what the movie Scream picked on about scary movies.   The girl does things that the average person would not do in the same situation.   Instead of running out the front door when confronted with the bad guy, they run upstairs.  Michelle Pfeiffer's character does this MULTIPLE times during the movie.   My friend, who watched it with me, kept saying "call the police".   But of course, she doesn't.

    Michelle Pfeiffer plays a woman who has a shady history, but the audience isn't ever really given the whole story behind it.  We kinda get an overview towards the end of the movie.  Anyway, she is married happily to her second husband, Harrison Ford.  Her only daughter, whom she is very close to, has just left for college and everyone is afraid she'll fall apart without her.  Sure enough, this is when she begins to have strange things happen to her...i.e.  doors opening on their own, things falling over spontaneously, etc.  She is sure the house is haunted and thru a chain of events comes to learn that the person haunting the house is someone her husband had an affair with.

    Well first off, I would've have liked had the idea of her sanity been played more towards the audience.  Is this all in her head, or is it really happening?  Could Harrison Ford's suspiscions of his wife doing this deliberately be true?  But the audience knows all along that she REALLY is seeing these things.   I think that Michelle Pfeiffer's vulnerability would've been enough for the audience to feel sympathy for her, whether her visions were real or not.  Also some very interesting characters are brought into the story but never touched on again, i.e. the Fuhr's and the mother of the missing girl and her friend who could've had an interesting part near the conclusion.  None of them are used to their full advantage.

    Ok, what was good.  It's nice to see Harrison Ford in a challenging, not so type-cast role.  It's movies like this and Regarding Henry that can show is diversity.  Sure Michelle Pfeiffer was good.  The movie was also very creepy.  There were some shots that were obviously pain staking and required a special effects team.  However, these were easy to spot because they didn't look very real (for example when she gets into the car and the speeding scene that follows).   But the simple things like morphing into the ghost and quick edits were good for audience scares.    This movie IS a scary movie, but nothing super scary.   Not a bad movie.  Not a great one either.