Best movie of this year hands down!

Let's be realistic.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

When I first saw this film – a true story – which features the graphic depiction of the murder of 15-year old Rachel Elizabeth Barber, I wondered how her parents could sit through it.However, in an interview, Rachel's mother, Elizabeth Barber, explained that she and her husband, "…didn't want people to shy away from what murder really is".This is one of the most harrowing movies you are likely to see.Rachel, played by Kate Bell, disappears after attending a dance class. The story follows her parents, Elizabeth and Mike Barber (Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce) as they attempt to find her, and convince the police that she hasn't simply run away. The film then cuts to the woman who has actually murdered their daughter, Caroline Reed Robertson, played in searing style by Ruth Bradley. Caroline came to know the family as a neighbour years before; a chance encounter that changed their lives.Combined with all the little details of family life, and the reactions of the younger children, Miranda Otto and Guy Pierce as the mother and father are so real that this film is often painful to watch.Sam Neil who plays Caroline's father, David Reid, has real presence on the screen, he is one of those actors who don't have to do much to steal a scene: the less he does the better he is. He projects a sense of exasperation and anxiety as Caroline's father.Ruth Bradley as Caroline is mesmerising. Overweight and hating her life and her body, she is nonetheless totally fixated on herself to the exclusion of just about all else. We see the mounting jealousy she feels for the seemingly perfect Rachel until she eventually murders her and tries to assume her identity. This film shows how the cocoon of safety, support and insularity embodied in normal family life can be shattered so easily by a malevolent, outside force.Every aspect of first-time director Simone North's film is brilliantly handled. From the incisive script to the interesting Melbourne locations, the film demonstrates the level of maturity that Australian films have attained today.The crime happened in 1999, and a postscript to the film is the fact that Caroline Reid Robertson is now eligible for parole. After seeing this movie and news reports about the case, you have to wonder whether the Victorian Parole Board is capable of getting this right; their track record in recent times has been abysmal with eleven murders committed by parolees in less than three years – one can only hope.

I have always been a fan of Guy Pearce (who will always be remembered as Mike from Neighbours in the UK)who is an actor that always seems to appear in decent films. On that basis I decided to watch this small Australian film.The film covers a real life case of a 15 year old girl who inexplicably goes missing from home. We see the reaction of her parents the excellent Pearce and Miranda Otto as they struggle to get the police to take the disappearance seriously. The film then concentrates on of the suspects a former babysitter played with chilling menace by Ruth Bradley and her father played by the dependable Sam Neill. The final part and weakest part of the film follows the missing girl.The subject matter doesn't really make for happy viewing and for that i cannot bring myself to give it a higher mark, yet it is an excellently made film and one of the best of it's type I have seen. It certainly deserves a wider audience.Be warned that one of the scenes in particular is extremely disturbing and may upset a lot of viewers.

I was waiting for a long time coz of the title (in her skin). But after seen this impressive movie I can tell you it was not so disgusting however the exploit was gruesome to see. I love drama and some how I love it. If you love this movie you also have to watch Changeling with the same impact. The movie is entertaining and the height is not after one hour. You can see this movie in two parts. First hour the missing girl, the girl who hate herself so much and the second part the searching of the missing girl. Strong cast from Ruth Bradley. Sam Neill is not the main person in this movie but his cast is also good. Bit strange cover. Btw good music. This movie is also good for psychologists. Nobody is perfect!

I could hardly get through this film, I had to hit pause several times and get it together. Having never heard of this gut-wrenching story until now, it was very saddening to read the synopsis (parents of a missing girl launch a frantic search for their daughter not knowing that her former babysitter has killed her. This is a true story) and then proceed to watch the film. I happened upon the movie while channel surfing and caught the scene where it looked like a girl (in a hospital bed) was being encouraged by an older man (played by Sam Neil) to talk to another man who was out of the frame but still visible. I pressed the info. button and the afore mentioned synopsis showed up. From the synopsis, I formed an opinion that the girl on the bed was either about to die and was being pumped for information or that she was the mother of the missing child. (BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!) Interested in the film, I switched to another channel to keep the spoilers at bay then I did a search for the movie to see if it would air at another date so I could watch it from the beginning, set it to record and forgot all about it. I found the film on my DVR two days later and proceeded to watch it. Three things that stood out to me were as follows: The negligence of the local police, the supernatural power of love and bond in the Barber family (the mother knew her daughter wasn't dead initially when she went missing ---if the police had issued an AMBER alert they would have found her--- and the father eerily almost suffocated from an asthma attack after which he confirmed Rachel's death ---Rachel was suffocated to death---) and failure of society to pay attention to such a psychotic person as Caroline Reed who according to the film suffers from epilepsy, bouts of depression, severe envy and self-loathing. Those scenes, if you choose to watch the film will be hard to watch. Then, at the very end when Rachel's younger sister comes to her dad (played by Guy Pearce) and tells him that it's her fault her sister is dead because she is the reason her family knew the Reeds in the first place and her father's response to her. That was such a powerful scene. It's psychologically multi-dimensional film-making at its best in the sense that you experience what the victim is feeling how she lived her life at the same time you experience what the perpetrator is feeling and how she lived her life, you see the parents on both sides, the children and you get to experience how all these people are feeling while all of this is going on.Yes, we have seen and read horrific tales of child abductions and killings in the past and yes we've seen them made into films many times before but this film is different. This is the type of true-story movie that will haunt you long after you've watched it. It's the kind of story that would make you want to reach out to the parents and family of Rachel Barber (the 15 yr old girl who was abducted and killed) and extend your condolences. It's the kind of film that will make you scream at the screen right before the end credits role revealing that Caroline Reed (the psychotic killer) will be eligible for parole in the year 2013. It is the kind of film that will have you break down in tears when the picture of the real Rachel Barber (1983-1999) is shown in her obituary right before the screen fades to black.