Testigo en la sombra

We're too far into but, you can still watch something else. This is a joke for a movie.

Well, well, more cheezola from Grosso-Jacobson, from their ice pick music, trying to pass off Toronto as New York, and bad casting.

Very quickly, the story concerns a real estate broker, Lacey, (Samms) who witnesses the murder of an accident victim's mother. The mother believes it was no accident, and finds her daughter's diary pages to prove it. She gives those pages to Lacey before she dies. The killer is after Lacey, so she is sent into the witness protection program, where she tries to figure out what happened so that she can come home.

"Pretend You Don't See Her" is particularly funny. First, we have the beautiful Emma Samms, as British as they come, who has a sister with no British accent. Right off you know the attention paid to the casting. I don't know about the Mary Higgins Clark story - I like Mary Higgins Clark's novels. Her stuff is a fast read, but Agatha Christie she ain't. I mean, did she really have her main character, played by Samms, act like a MORON? Lacey is in witness protection and her sister begs, pleads for a hint as to where she is. She won't tell anyone. So Lacey (now pretending to be named Alice) gives her a hint which enables her sister to figure out her location immediately. And true to her promise, she doesn't tell anyone. She doesn't have to. She buys a newspaper from that city and has it sticking out of her purse wherever she goes so that EVERYONE can see it.

If only that had been the only dumb thing, but it wasn't.

I gave it a 5 because I got to hear a bunch of Italian tenor arias - Una furtiva lagrima, Di quella pira, La donna e' mobile, and Celeste Aida - playing in a character's restaurant.

I was very underwhelmed with this film from start to finish. Even the attempts to link the film to the title was just poorly executed.

Lacey gets on your nerves with her idiocy and exposing her loved ones and herself. She lacks in the brains department. As soon as she became a target she exposed her sister and niece to danger by visiting them, later she gave up the location of where she was hiding while under witness protection. Also the motive was never really fully explained. Why was Heather killed, what was the story behind these murders.

This is yet another example of a poorly adapted film from Mary Higgins Clark.

A very well put together movie! I've been looking forward to this movie for a few months now. I first heard about it on young Dani Bouffard's (Bonnie) fan club. The movie was very well written and interesting. The acting was superior! Dani showed a great reach of emotion and touched my heart in many scenes. The scene in the hospital and on the phone with Lacey was very touching! When Bonnie was shot at, it was so believable and powerful that during the commercials, I was praying that Bonnie was okay! I think this little girl has a very bright future ahead of her, as I heard she was voted Sweetheart Of The Year for 2001 by the fans! Outstanding job to those who chose Dani for this wonderful role!

Really odd TV-movie from the Mary Higgins Clark plot factory. Oddball international cast does pretty well (for the most part); I don't know if the use of British, Canadian, German, and American actors was a deliberate sop to the multi-culti crowd or just a random occurrence. Anyway, the mystery is quite suspenseful at times, though some of the "twists and turns" are a bit pat. The overall impact is hindered, however, by Emma Samms's strange performance. She was apparently struggling with her American accent: some of her line readings are a bit off, and she uses an inappropriately breathy voice in some scenes that really saps them of tension. There was no intrinsic reason for her to use an American accent anyway; the character could just as easily have been a Brit. Also inexplicable is the (creepy) attention paid below to the little girl--her role is actually small.