Laura Leighton of "Melrose Place" fame stars in this 2002 film, We'll Meet Again, based on a Mary Higgins Clark novel. The film also stars Brandy Ledford, and Gedeon Burkhard - basically a Canadian cast.
Leighton plays Fran Silman, a young reporter who returns to her home town after a scandal caused her and her mother to move to New York. Her father was accused of stealing from a church fund and took his own life.
At the time of her return, a fellow high school student, Molly Lasch (Ledford) is released from prison after serving six years for the murder of her doctor husband. This was a plea deal arrived at during the trial. Everyone in the town believes her guilty though she has always insisted she is innocent. Fran's editor has asked her to do a story on the case.
Fran begins investigating the murder, believing her friend to be innocent. Along the way, she learns that another doctor was murdered within days of Molly's husband, and that both doctors were having an affair with the same woman, a nurse in the hospital.
Before long, there is another murder and several attempts on both Fran's and Molly's lives. There is also stonewalling, since the hospital is involved in negotiating a big merger with an HMO, and administrators are afraid of bad publicity for the hospital.
Either my values have gone south, or these Mary Higgins Clark movies are better than the ones produced by Grosso-Jacobson, many of which I've seen since I'll watch any mystery. True, as usual, it wasn't hard to figure out. Clark is no Agatha Christie. However, it didn't seem as slow, and it didn't have the Psycho music that accompanies these films.
The big problem with these films is that somehow, you always know who did it due to the dialogue or the acting. I think it's both.
