I'll Be Seeing You (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Will Dixon

Writers (WGA):

Jeffrey Cohen (written by) and
John Benjamin Martin (written by)

Release Date:

1 May 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Daughter investigates her father's disappearance/murder

Plot:

A young woman must identify the body of her exact double and ends up discovering the details of her father's death. |

Plot Keywords:

Insurance Policy | Presumed Dead | Stalker | Father Daughter Relationship | Look Alike

Cast

Alison Eastwood	...	Patricia Collins
Iris Quinn	...	Catherine Collins
Bo Svenson	...	Philip Carter
Derwin Jordan	...	Lt. Story
Richy Müller	...	Bernie
Mark Humphrey	...	Mac
Margot Kidder	...	Frances Grolier
Matthew Walker	...	Dr. Manning
Christina Jastrzembska	...	Dr. Helene Petrovic
Amy Matysio	...	Stephanie
Jennifer Miles	...	Gail
Rob Roy	...	Dr. Williams
Wendy Anderson	...	Fiona White
Leanne Scott	...	Harriet
Jill McAlister	...	Reporter

Also Known As:

Un jour tu verras (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence.

Runtime:

USA:96 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Saskatchewan, Canada

Company:

Global Television Network

Two hours I'll never get back again

I had nothing better to do, so I decided to watch this made for TV film based on Mary Higgins Clark's novel. I don't know if I am mad they make such junk and serve it up as entertainment or if I'm more mad at myself for sitting there until "The End" hoping it would get better, even though I figured out fifteen minutes into the film who the killer was.

Plot points: A young woman, played by Allison Eastwood (who didn't inherit Daddy's acting genes) is called to a morgue to look at body who looks just like her. She also has father who "died" 9 months ago and the body was never found. Into the mix, she lives with mom at home and has a vet love interest who dumped her two years ago to marry, whar he tells her is "the worst mistake" he's ever made and now wants her back. Yeah, that's just what I want to hear an ex boyfriend say to me. "I dumped you, I chose poorly, now I want you back." The pathetic part is that she allows it.

Oh, and Eastwood's character has to deal with a detective who is tracking the killer of her doppelganger and starts to put the blame on her dead father. Okay, so let me get this straight...we can't find the killer, so it must be the supposedly dead father. Alrighty, then.

To layer the plot up with some twists, people her father worked with start dying every time girl speaks with one of them. I mean, if she talks to someone at a party, they die. To top it off, girl has a psychotic stalker, and she has to find out the identity of the girl in the morgue.

Irritations, (besides the Chuck Norris school of acting grads who star in this): For the first hour an a half of the film, someone in every scene is drinking or eating something and the audience is treated to the loud slurping, gulping and smacking sounds, which in American society is considered bad manners; since when did coffee and food become things to move a plot along the way they are over used and accentuated in this film.

The Eastwood character is trying solve this mystery: she knows someone is after her and leaves her doors unlocked. No woman in her right mind thinks going to bed at night with the house open in any situation is a good idea, and this one is being stalked and does just that.

In another scene, she is up on a hill, sees a strange truck stalking her. What does she do? She rides her horse down a hill right into the path of the truck, which of course, tries to run her down (the horse did very well in this scene, so kudos to the horse!)

We're supposed to believe she is smart enough to solve this mystery?

Oh, a few others things: the detective says not once, but three times, "If your father calls, I expect you to notify me immediately." HELLO, the guy is supposed to be dead? What would make the trench coat wearing detective think he would call? A realistic character would have said, "Yo. Idiot. He's dead. Got that?" Our heroine believes her father is dead and agrees to call the detective if she hears from him.

I've already mentioned the ex boyfriend. After he proudly announces to her, "I am courting you again," they have a kissing scene. There is no chemistry. This is about the time I wondered how much these two were being paid to kiss each other, because it didn't look like nearly enough money from where I was sitting.

I sat here a moment to see if I could think of one good thing to say about this film and the answer is, no...I really can't.