Try to Remember (2004)

A supposedly wrapped up murder case comes back to haunt a small town 15 years later when all the witnesses who testified start dying.

Director:

Jeff Beesley

Writers:

Jeff Martel, John Benjamin Martin

Stars:

Gabrielle Anwar, Max Martini, Diego Wallraff

Cast

Cast overview:
Gabrielle Anwar	...	Lisa Monroe
Max Martini	...	Joe O'Conner
Diego Wallraff	...	Jake Mitchell
Garry Chalk	...	Stuart Kling
David Richmond-Peck	...	Benny Thomason
Gerald Lenton-Young	...	Fred Rand (as Gerald Lenton Young)
Sheila Paterson	...	Louise Dexter
Andrea Runge	...	Jenny Rand
Alan Bratt	...	Vinnie DiCampo
Rosie Frier-Dryden	...	Helen Rand (as Rosy Frier-Drydon)
Ian Black	...	Ned Watts
Kathryn Bracht	...	Dr. Nicole Ralston

Storyline

After twelve years of being away, Lisa Monroe returns to her usually quiet hometown of Milford to work as a police detective. She was recruited by her childhood friend, now Lieutenant Joe O'Conner. The first case on which she works as lead investigator is the death of Louise Dexter, her grandmother. Although the autopsy points to the death being accidental, Lisa finds evidence that implicates Jake Mitchell as the murderer. Jake Mitchell raped and killed Lisa's best friend Jenny Rand fifteen years earlier. Jake has been paroled and has returned to Milford to live. At his trial, he vowed revenge on the four people who testified against him, namely Louise, Sergeant Stuart Kling (Lisa's colleague who does not respect her investigative abilities), a security guard named Vinnie DiCampo, and Lisa herself. To some extent, all four feel guilty, but especially Lisa, about not preventing Jenny's death, each who had an opportunity that day to intervene in the interaction between Jake and Jenny. ...

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Plot Keywords:

visiting a grave | graveyard | taking a photograph | grave | taking a picture | 

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Taglines:

Memories can be murder.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some violence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 February 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mary Higgins Clark's 'Try to Remember'

Filming Locations:

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

2DF Enterprises, Global, Pax TV

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Benny Thomason: Well thinking about murder is not a crime yet... is it?

User Reviews

not great, not awful

Gabrielle Anwar stars in "Try to Remember," a 2004 film based on a short story by Mary Higgins Clark. Anwar plays a policewoman who returns to her hometown from Detroit after many years, only to be confronted with the old murder case of her best friend again. The killer has been released, and court witnesses are being murdered.

Mary Higgins Clark always has a heroine, one very obvious suspect (male), one or two men who might be suspects, and then one or two men who would never be suspected. It wasn't hard to figure this one out.

The cast is very attractive - besides Anwar, there is Max Martini, Diego Wallraff, and David Richmond-Peck, all lookin' good. Garry Chalk, a familiar face, plays a detective on the force.

A lot of the Mary Higgins Clark adaptations are, like this one, done in Canada, but many have been produced by Sonny Grosso. This one was not, but it isn't any better. All that's missing is Sonny's familiar Psycho-type music.