Footsteps - Die Nacht kennt den Mörder

Candice Bergen plays an author recovering from a nervous breakdown in "Footsteps," a 2003 TV movie based on a play by Ira Levin.

Bergen is Daisy, a popular author making her first public appearance in a long time. She has just killed off a major character who has appeared in many books.

A man screaming at her about this from the back of the hall unnerves her. She has decided to face her fears and spend the night in her beach house alone, as her husband is away - during the film, she has a series of phone calls with him.

When she arrives there after the Q&A, she can't find her dog and a fan (Bug Hall) has broken into her house. He assures her he's not there to hurt her. He seems to know everything about her; afraid, Daisy keeps ordering him to get out.

The police arrive at the behest of her husband in the form of Bryan Brown, his "Thorn Birds" days long behind him. He manages to get the fan out of the house and agrees to wait with her until her dog is returned - it's been picked up by the pound.

As time goes on, Daisy realizes he's not a cop. Who is he? And did someone send him?

This is a good, atmospheric TV movie. It's somewhat derivative and somehow it never really scared me, but the performances are good and there are suspenseful moments.

I had one problem. I won't give anything away but at a certain point, one of the characters suffers a horrific injury to his hand. A towel is wrapped around it and the individual goes on as if nothing has happened. To which I say, give me a break. The pain had to be unendurable.

You're not really sure what's going to happen in the end, so you'll have to make your own decision.

Tense drama of life imitating art. A popular suspense novelist(Candice Bergen)with a myriad of phobias is terrorized when a couple of strangers appear at her isolated beach house. Murder is the theme and it takes big time nerve and little savvy to survive. Bryan Brown as well as Bergen are tremendous and believable. Also in the cast are Bug Hall and Michael Murphy. Very good for a made-for-TV movie. Kudos to Christopher Franke for the mood setting musical background.

Footsteps is made for television. It's a tv-movie and it shows. Not that all tv-movies are bad, far from that, but this one just is. The story is just boring, the movie contains a lot of scenes where you roll your eyes, the kind of scenes where bad decisions are so obvious they become annoying to watch and bring down the quality of a story. The cast wasn't awful, just average. Candice Bergen should stick with Murphy Brown, that suits her more.

I found myself constantly trying to find something wrong with this film through the duration of it because I knew better than to be liking it so much - but i couldn't help it. I kept thinking that with some decent actors this script had great potential. It did of course have its typical t.v movie flaws but you learn to except those eventually. I must admit the one let down I will stick with is the not so brilliant title. It's really got nothing to do with the film and it certainly doesn't make you say "I need to watch this film."

The twists and turns this movie take will keep you on edge right to the last shot. I even loved the last scene so much it took this from an 8 to a 9 so stay tuned right until the end credits flash up.

As a big Candice Bergen fan i was looking forward to see this movie. And i wasn´t disappointed, this was a very interesting movie. It´s the kind of movie that you don´t know how it´s gonna end until the last minute, and you don´t trust anyone. Candice Bergen´s performance was amazing and so was Bug Hall´s and Bryan Brown´s. I hope this movie comes out on VHS or DVD but in the mean time I recommend anyone who likes suspense to catch this one on tv.