CHUCK RUSSELL
Bil’s rating (out of 5): B.5.
USA/Germany, 2000. , Icon Entertainment International, Munich Film Partners & Company, BTC Productions. Screenplay by Thomas Rickman, Clifford Green, Ellen Green, based on the novel by Cathy Cash Spellman. Cinematography by Peter Menzies Jr.. Produced by Mace Neufeld. Music by Christopher Young. Production Design by Carol Spier. Costume Design by Denise Cronenberg. Film Editing by Alan Heim.
Kim Basinger gives a strong performance in the lead role but her abilities can’t save this lame story from its mundane nature. Riding on the wave of spiritual thrillers that dominated screens at the time, the story centers around a little girl who is supposed to have special Godlike powers, prompting Satanists to want to take her and do their own nasty things with her. What the girl actually has power to do is never disclosed aside from the occasional glimpse of her making dinner plates spin. Somehow, Christina Ricci pops up in an inexplicable cameo that goes nowhere. Really bad, but Basinger’s beauty and talent might make you forget everything else for two hours.
