A mother and daughter are haunted by the spirit of a young girl who drowned in the water tower on the property where they live. It's not a really scary movie but a decent haunt.Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade) move into apartment 9F on Roosevelt Island in New York. Dahlia has been going through a challenging divorce and custody battle with her estranged husband. Apartment 9F is in a run down building with stains on the walls and carpets and it seems that the walls are leaking.
At first, Dahlia just blames the problems on the building and keeps asking the maintenance man to check it out. Water is pouring through her ceiling and she swears someone is living above her or children are upstairs trying to drive her insane. She's looses focus on what is reality and what she thinks is going on in her head. But she does find the answers when climbing the water tower on the roof.
Buena Vista PicturesDirector: Walter Salles, Jr.
Writer: Rafael Yglesias
Producers: Doug Davison, Bill Mechanic, Roy Lee
I viewed 1/06
1 comment:
I happened to see both versions of this movie - this one and the original Japanese one, from 2002. The events leading up to the conclusion are markedly different, though the result is the same. The Japanese version is also more of a character study on the mother's relationship with the father, while a parallel is drawn (in the version you reviewed) between the drowned child's family and Dahlia's.
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