Half Light
Half Light
R | 17 January 2006 (USA)
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Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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TinsHeadline

Touches You

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CommentsXp

Best movie ever!

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Scarlet

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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JohnHowardReid

I have just done something I've never done before, namely to read ALL the previous reviews - all 118 of them! Demi Moore has such a high reputation that I thought I might be doing her an injustice by giving "Half Light" a bad review. Maybe it was just me that was at fault. Maybe I'm just too stupid to follow the depth of the sizzling plot and to wonder who was who and what the heck was going on? To my relief and surprise, I find that the "noes" account for at least fifty or sixty of these previous reviews. And I fully agree with just about everything the "noes" have raised. I found the plot both illogical and hard to follow.Maybe I found it illogical because it was hard to follow, or hard to follow because it was so illogical? I tend to favor the second alternative and I'm both glad and relieved to find that many of the previous reviewers experienced just the same problems.A pity. Demi Moore is a fine actress and it's a shame to find her associated with this piece of illogical and disappointing plotting that actually gets less and less credible as it proceeds. Admittedly, the movie starts off well. But having laid a splendid foundation, the scriptwriters totally lose their way. (Maybe this is wrong. Maybe the fault is mine. So lets put it this way: They totally lost ME!

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patalbright2

It's hard for me to be critical of any of Demi Moore's movies since I have been a long time fan. She reminds me so much of Grace Kelly in the sense her beauty at times overshadowed her talent. Now that she has gotten older her talent is forefront-just as the case with Kelly- and how it should have been all along.The movie has been covered in great detail by other reviewers so I'll simply say that Demi Moore was convincing as the lead actor and the film does resemble a Hitchcock revolving plot line. It had me fooled until the very end-although I thought something was up-just not sure what it was.I kind of got a 'Wicker Man' type feeling with all the wonderful scenery and perhaps Lord Summerisle would show up to explain everything.Well done!

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Catharina_Sweden

I think the problem with this movie is that it could not decide what it wanted to be. A ghost-story? A psychological thriller? A gore movie? Movies seldom turn out well, when movie-makers mix styles and elements like that. One somehow wants to know what to expect - roughly at least. I, for my part, had hoped for a traditional ghost story - and I was disappointed when it turned out that the culprits were human. And also by all the dead people, violence, and gore. It did not have any good scares either.I think the plot was also wildly improbable. A husband and the wife's best friend falling in love with each other, and cooperating about killing the wife and living off her money. Yes, I can buy that. It has happened. But their plot was too extreme and improbable. There are thousands of ways to kill a person and make it look like an accident or a suicide. Especially as this woman already had a big grief and a lot of bad conscience after her son died. No one would have doubted her reasons to kill herself.But to involve a third person, who wanted his share of the inheritance, and who could blackmail them later...? And to have this person act as a ghost - a very virile, fleshy ghost at that..? And to take the trouble to clean up and furnish the old light-house - and then take everything away again, and make it look as if no one had lived there for eight years..? The longer they stayed in the neighbourhood, the greater the risk that somebody should see them, and recognize them later... Another question: how could they even know of the tragedy in the light-house eight years earlier..? They were not from there.No, this movie was a mistake, I think. I still give it four stars for the craggy nature scenery from Scotland, and some fine love-scenes and mother-child-scenes.

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Neil Doyle

The rugged locales photographed in Cornwall, England supply just the right atmosphere for this tale of a lonely writer who moves to a remote location to escape her unhappy past and has a tender relationship with the local lighthouse keeper. Their romance forms the first half of the story which comes to a halt after she makes a shocking discovery.The troubled woman (Demi Moore in a very effective performance) finds kinship in another lost soul and this part of the film is touching and real. The script takes a different turn at this point through a series of unsettling incidents in which nothing is what it seems. Some of the twists are quite clever but somewhat predictable too for anyone who has seen a lot of ghost stories.However, at no point does the suspense let up, so whatever flaws there are in the story are compensated by fine photography, eerily effective background score and a uniformly excellent cast.The lighthouse keeper is played skillfully by Hans Matheson, who bears a striking resemblance to either Ewan McGregor or Richard Hart (the actor who played Lana Turner's husband in "Green Dolphin Street"). He's a sensitive actor in a demanding role.With just the right atmosphere for a Gothic romance of this sort, this is certainly worth a watch.

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