Successful American novelist (Demi Moore) living in England is recuperating slowly from the drowning death of her beloved little boy; she moves to a seaside village to work but is continually surrounded by apparitions and dreams of her child. European theatrical release only made it to DVD in the States, perhaps because it is so routine, with musty clichés clouding the script. Naturally there's a cute lighthouse keeper who lives across the bay (we know he's heterosexual from the start: he invites Moore to dinner and, of course, burns the fish) and a town psychic who wanders about making creepy comments ("Your child is trying to hold your hand!"). We want to like the picture because luminous Moore is so good, but the scenario is full of red herrings (starting with that lighthouse, which is right out of a 1950s thriller) and lots of unplayable melodrama. Handsome production, sharp past-and-present editing, but otherwise unimaginative. **1/2 from ****
Review of Half Light
