Soirée d'angoisse

Candice Bergen plays a nervous thriller writer spending a night alone at a beach house after making her first public appearance in five years. She runs across an intruder, a young man who worships her, followed by a cop who comes to arrest the kid. Someone is out to get her, although it isn't clear who until the end. Her husband is on his way to the house as she tries to sort out who's who and what's what. Bergen is OK as a nervous Nelly, and the kid (played by Bug Hall) is pretty entertaining. Aussie actor Bryan Brown as the cop and Michael Murphy as the husband round out the cast of this telepicture based on an Ira Levin play. A good one for a slow Saturday night. Its release date (2003) ensures much use of cell phones, which is a good thing, because the story otherwise could just as easily be taking place in 1950..

This is a great suspense filled atmospheric thriller, that has all elements to make a great movie. Great acting, great story, great locations and keeps you on edge of your seat til end with a surprise ending. I liked it so much I bought it on dvd. Highly recommended.

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.

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.

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.