Pretend You Don't See Her (2002) (TV)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

René Bonnière

Writers:

Donald Hounam (written by)
Mary Higgins Clark (novel)

Release Date:

12 January 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

When a Manhattan real estate agent witnesses a murder, she joins the Federal Witness Protection Program and starts a new life in Minnesota.

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Murder Mystery | Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Emma Samms	...	Lacey Farrell
Hannes Jaenicke	...	Curtis Caldwell Blake
Beau Starr	...	Detective Ed Sloan
Reiner Schöne	...	Jimmy Greco (as Reiner Schoene)
Stewart Bick	...	Ken Lynch
Laura Press	...	Chantal Greco
Carolyn Dunn	...	Kitt Taylor
Fulvio Cecere	...	Baldwin
Richard Eden	...	Steve Smith
Philip Akin	...	Witness Protection Agent
Rod Wilson	...	Jay Taylor
William Colgate	...	Svenson
Tom Melissis	...	Ron Parker
Danielle Bouffard	...	Bonnie Taylor
Lyriq Bent	...	Detective

Also Known As:

Mary Higgins Clark's 'Pretend You Don't See Her' (Canada: English title)
Mary Higgins Clark's Pretend You Don't See Her (UK) (complete title)
Mary Higgins Clark: Ni vue ni connue (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some violence.

Country:

UK | Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Australia:M | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

2DF Enterprises

Trivia:

The photo used for the character Heather Greco was Kim Poirier's professional headshot, it can be seen on her official site.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Lacey is reading Heather Greco's journal, the voice-over refers to Ken Lynch, who is a character in the film. The writing on the paper, however, clearly says Tom Lynch in two different places.

Quotes:

Heather Greco: [voiceover] Uh, I guess this weekend was when I knew it was all over. I've had the feeling he was using me for awhile but now I'm sure of it. There were a bunch of us up at Stowe, skiing. Ginny, Jane Moore, Ken Lynch, Gary Kroll. Then afterwards he came up wanting us to be alone
[laugh]
Heather Greco: that was no more true than anything else he's ever said to me.
Lacey Farrell: Okay, so who's 'he'?
Heather Greco: [voiceover] Ginny and Gary came back to New York and Ken he had to come home for his radio show today. That's when I got a call from.
Lacey Farrell: Man, Manhattan? Someone she knows in town? What were they warning you about Heather.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Intimate Portrait: Emma Samms" (2002)

Lacking

Really odd TV-movie from the Mary Higgins Clark plot factory. Oddball international cast does pretty well (for the most part); I don't know if the use of British, Canadian, German, and American actors was a deliberate sop to the multi-culti crowd or just a random occurrence. Anyway, the mystery is quite suspenseful at times, though some of the "twists and turns" are a bit pat. The overall impact is hindered, however, by Emma Samms's strange performance. She was apparently struggling with her American accent: some of her line readings are a bit off, and she uses an inappropriately breathy voice in some scenes that really saps them of tension. There was no intrinsic reason for her to use an American accent anyway; the character could just as easily have been a Brit. Also inexplicable is the (creepy) attention paid below to the little girl--her role is actually small.