Be prepared for some highly charged moments in this reincarnation thriller that goes along quite well for the first half of its story. Good performances from Marsha Mason and Susan Swift as mother and daughter wring every last drop of emotion from the tale of a 12-year-old girl who seems to be the reincarnation of a younger child who died in a car crash. Anthony Hopkins gives an impassioned account of the dead girl's father and Robert Wise's tight direction makes the most of such tension and jumpy moments as the script provides. Once away from the apartment building where the main action takes place, however, the film quickly deteriorates and becomes progressively less flexible, its buckling script even giving rise to a few unintended laughs towards the end. Setting the last half hour in a courtroom also seems a mistake: such personal problems are best resolved in close confines for maximum audience enjoyment.


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