![]() ![]() This is the movie's weakest section the writer-director, David Koepp, makes him dig more than is necessary to make the point. Eventually be brings in a pneumatic drill. Then Samantha tells Tom, "dig." So he digs. Her sister baby-sits Jake, who somehow knows the name of the missing girl Samantha told him. ![]() Early in the film he asks an unseen presence, "Does it hurt to be dead?" After a vision of a ghostly young woman named Samantha appears to Tom on his living room sofa, Jake reaches out and touches his hand: "Don't be afraid of it, Daddy." We learn that several months ago a mentally retarded girl disappeared in the neighborhood. ![]() They're gonna start docking him." Only his son Jake ( Zachary David Cope) understands. In this Chicago version, she tells her sister: "He's used up all his sick days. In a Manhattan movie his wife would have sent him to a shrink. He starts calling in sick, and his wife Maggie ( Kathryn Erbe) is worried: Is he getting goofy? After the movies about satanic manifestations in Manhattan skyscrapers, it's nice to see weird things happening to people who hang out in the corner saloon, go to high school football games and walk down the block to church. Tom's nights are prowled by nightmares, and his lovemaking is interrupted by hallucinations of severed body parts (that will certainly do the trick). They're linked, perhaps, to events on the street, where the neighbors are salt-of-the-earth types who are into buying old houses and fixing them up. ![]()
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