Spirit

Ghosts with unfinished business stick around haunting the living. Bad acting, bad everything. Mr. Hardesty just makes me laugh in a non-comedic movie. Oh the drama! The whole relationship between the girl and her rebel teenage neighbor Cole is no surprise. Very predictable movie.

It feels if the Hallmark channel made "horror films" this is what it'd be. It was weird in the sense it did have a ghost story element, but it was the opposite of scary. Everything is sweet, and works out well, and everyone learns important lessons along the way. It had no tension.

Even the production value looked as though it was made for TV. The story was basic, and slow passed, which it did get a bit more interesting as it went on. So better writing to tighten up the script would have helped this film.

This is not a horror movie, not a thriller or suspense movie either. It's a ghost story for kids with some added teen drama. It is quite slow and does get a bit boring and the acting does seem a bit strange, but it's a tv-movie from 90's era and they often were like this - well not this bad but you know...

The one thing that drove me crazy about this movie is the fact that Kelly always looked like she needed to brush her hair. Drove me freaking crazy!!!! Could they not afford a hair and makeup person? Or did she never look in the mirror. She looked like she rolled around in bed and walked on set. Maybe she did not own one!! It was so distracting to see her hair like Einstein in ever shot there was no way I could take anything seriously. I might have gave it 5 stars if the director had made her brush that mop. The story was okay. I think this might have been a lot better if they would have cast better actors.I think the little girl was the best actor in the whole movie. The only thing you heard her do was laugh!

I give this movie 6 stars based on the fact that it is a made-for-tv movie and it accomplishes what it set out to do. We like ghost stories because it is comforting to believe we don't simply walk the earth for a few short years just to disappear and be forgotten. We want to believe we are more than we appear to be, that love endures, and that the things we do in our lives matter. We also want to believe our loved ones who die are not lost to us forever. This movie checks all those boxes.

If the dialog isn't brilliant and the writing isn't tight, well that's down to it being written for tv, isn't it? However, regardless of all the shade being thrown at Elizabeth Moss for not brushing her hair, she's still adorable. Not as adorable as she was as Peggy Olson, but still pretty darn cute.