CHUCK RUSSELL

Bil’s rating (out of 5):  B.5

USA/Germany, 2000.  Paramount Pictures, 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‘s strong performance can’t save this lame story, which rides 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.