When she was just a little girl, Sarah Hardy witnessed her insane mother commit suicide shortly after her father’s passing. Fifteen years later, the newly married Sarah (Sela Ward) moves back into her mother’s giant waterside estate, The Pines, with her husband Austin. It doesn’t take long for her to start hearing mama’s voice, receiving strange phone calls from the dead woman and experiencing different levels of troubling supernatural tomfoolery. Has her mother come back from beyond the veil to torment the pretty young woman or is there something more grounded in reality and way more sinister afoot? If Morgan Fairchild were hanging around anywhere near my husband, I’d assume there’s some scheming afoot. I don’t care if she’s been my friend since grade school… it’s Morgan Fairchild. Fairchild is a soap star named Lucy and seems to be concerned about her bestie but, again, it’s Morgan Fairchild. Sarah begins to worry she’s going insane like her mother (something she shares with Lucy) and she reaches out to her old friend Alan (who is now a psychiatrist and still has some romantic feelings for the young woman) for some help with the anxiety of history repeating itself… not to mention all the crazy shit she’s experiencing. A miscarriage following an encounter with a knife-wielding (possible) spectral mother pushes things over the edge as depression joins Sarah’s anxiety/insanity dance. She asks for a divorce, worried about what she’ll be putting her husband through. She listens in on a phone call Austin makes and gets a little suspicious he’s up to something. Of course he is and of course Morgan Fairchild is his partner in crime. They want everything she has and they plan on staging her murder to look like a suicide. When Sarah vanishes before they can stage her suicide, a suicide note has them thinking she’s done the job for them. An empty vial of pills found on the beach has everyone thinking she went out just like her mother. We know better and we also know that turnabout is fair play. TV movie thriller isn’t anything new but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. Think an updated episode of Thriller and you’re in the right ballpark. Terrible ending, mind you.
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