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4.8/10   106 votes
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Director:
Colin Bucksey
Writer (WGA):
David Birke (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 February 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
A child's references to satanic rituals initiate a custody battle between his divorced mother and his grandmother in this fact-based story. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Total zero (a shame this system provides for minimum of 1*) more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tracey Gold ... Sarah Landers Taylor

Kate Jackson ... DeDe Cooper
Jeff Yagher ... Jack Taylor
Robert Bishop ... Kyle Landers
Laura Harris ... Josie Cooper

Michael Hogan
Matt Hill ... Chris Landers
Chilton Crane ... Alisa Wesley

Anna Ferguson ... Florence Cooper

Benjamin Ratner ... Dan Calder

Xander Berkeley ... Curtis Harrison

Bob Morrisey ... George Stone

Hrothgar Mathews ... FBI Agent Sowell
Dave Cameron ... FBI Agent Harris
Merrilyn Gann ... Jean McAvoy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Australia:M
Filming Locations:
British Columbia, Canada

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Total zero (a shame this system provides for minimum of 1*), 2 September 2008
1/10
Author: caa821 from Tulsa OK

Seeing this film was purely by chance. I was working at home on the computer, and someone was watching it in the next room. I had taken a break for lunch a bit after it had started.

Some movies are mediocre, but you watch sometimes if you haven't anything better to do, or are just vegging-out for a couple of hours. Some are "so bad that they're good," and provide amusement instead of the type of appreciation which the maker may have intended.

Then there are those like this one, which occur not too frequently, but with regularity among this channel and genre.

Even while delivering a topic and subject matter which could be treated to evoke some feeling and meaning for viewers - this production, its characters, and perhaps most of all, the performances - present absolutely nothing of value.

There wasn't a single performance or character which was the least bit sympathetic, and all were vacuous and completely uninteresting in their own ways. Their performances were wooden, and I found it impossible to care about or like the characters meant to be liked and sympathetic; it was equally impossible to be interested sufficiently in the negative characters, or to dislike or care one iota about them either.

Grandmother/mother/father/sister/good guy-new husband - all were big zeroes in terms of what one hopes to find (even minimally) in a story.

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