It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

After receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancée, a woman's visions of a ghost following her lead her to discover a startling secret about the past and its rightful owner and races to put an end to the haunting.This was quite an enjoyable and interesting Lifetime Channel effort. This one manages to get a lot right here detailing the ghostly activity, which is first given quite a nice build-up here of the visions and encounters around town before going into the thumping footsteps in the different floors, controlling the atmosphere around her or fixating on the TV shows from the 60s that sets this one up quite nicely. These here are enough to work a fine atmosphere here when this one manages to bring about quite thrilling ghostly encounters are brought along early in here which makes for a really quick, breezy pace throughout here. That the first encounter, seeing her out on the streets just after the engagement comes about is nicely due to the quick time here, a later scene in her house where she follows the watery footprints to the window where she has a great encounter that turns out to be the film's highlight scene, another one of the car going out of control on the streets and a rather impressive series of scenes at the ruined studio which comes off rather well here in making the supernatural action work here. As well, the finale is really enjoyable here with the modern-day action nicely mirroring the flashback revelation of the actual crime as there's some rather fun times trapping her there and the stalking makes for quite a fun time. These here are helped along by the other big point here in the actual mystery which comes across rather well as the start with the appearing ghost following her, showing up in photographs and finally interacting among her life which spurs the discovery of the connection to the past by putting it all together and getting some rather suspenseful times here. These are enough to hold off the few small flaws in this one. The biggest issue to this one is the rather downbeat investigation of the actual mystery which tends to offer up an engrossing angle but is badly executed. There's little interest here in how the murder gets solved since it tends to run through the usual manner of spotlighting scenes mainly as a way to give her screen-time which is a big channel requirement. It's not as though the scene are all that bad but are just not filled with any kind of supernatural attacks or even ghostly activities throughout here, replaced mainly with scenes of her crying out for others or being tormented by the case which really lowers the amount of time here on the horror. It easily could've infused a few more encounters along the way to help out in that regard and still keep the same results which is what makes this a little disappointing. The only other flaw to this one is the rather lame story here that follows many of those elements simply to show that, from the family hospitality to her and the attitude of the cop that's all rather cliché enough to give this that familiar feel without doing anything else for it. Otherwise, this one was rather fun.Rated Unrated/PG-13: Violence and Language.

Enjoyed this film and its location in New Orleans, Louisiana, with its historic old buildings, old homes and their antique furnishings. This film deals mainly with the spiritual world and a lost soul who is trying to communicate with a young girl, Kate Jennings Grant(Claire) and also manages to involve her boyfriend, Michael Arata. If a person's life is cut short, the spirit needs to advance to a higher spiritual level and this poor soul was definitely not Resting in Peace and caused all kinds of problems for everyone! If you like films dealing with Ghosts and the supernatural, this is the film for you, and especially around Halloween! ENJOY

Like a previous reviewer, I really wanted to like this movie. I tuned in because the promos mentioned James Van Praagh as the source for the storyline, and I was hoping to get some good and intelligent treatment of spirit communication.What a letdown.This was the same IL' thriller that almost totally ignores the real story, the story that should be told, the life after death story. I have seen very few movies that have the guts to go beyond the ordinary "bang-bang you're dead" plot and focus on what happens to the murder victim after the funeral.James Van Praagh has made a life (and one presumes a great living) out of talking to dead people, writing books about talking to dead people, and taking rich people on expensive cruises to exotic places where he talks to more dead people. That's cool for him, but I expected more out a movie about dead people that he produced.So why does this movie act like an ordinary yawner of a murder mystery that gives us absolutely diddly insight into the spirit of the victim? Couldn't we for once have a more intelligent treatment of this subject? If there are spirits, and as far as this movie was concerned, there are, then the spirit in this movie has a great story. She survived murder! So we really don't have to spend two hours in a melodrama to figure out who killed her. Let's get to the good stuff.What was murder like when she left her physical body? What happened when she realized that death was a transition, not a termination? What did she learn about being murdered after she realized that murder didn't kill her? I am so surprised that James Van Praagh gave his seal of approval to this annoying waste of time.

Doesn't anyone get tired of making these stupid movies? The ones where someone is contact by a ghost who was horribly murdered and this random person is expected to go throughout the picture, trying to convince people that she's been talking with this ghost and demands answers from total strangers (often neurotic strangers) who may know how she died or where her remains lie. It's a boilerplate story these days, and after the success and the thrills of the 'Sixth Sense,' is it really necessary to keep making these things? Kathleen Quinnlan, probably the only tolerable actress in the bunch (and Chris Sarandon as the widow of the dead girl) as the sinister mother-in-law-to-be were completely wasted in this predictable mess. Anne Heche, of course, took the lead and showed off her awful acting abilities as Emily Parker, host to the dead girl. The ending was pretty stupid. What a waste.