I did not know this was a Lifetime created film, but the stench of the entire production made it pretty obvious when I read that fact in reviews.
It has the Lifetime formula down pat! Perfect family with perfect husband and wife living the perfect life looking for a child to adopt!!! Then problems develop 1. Stepson vs stepmother tensions, 2. Senile mother vs perfect daughter tensions and finally 3. A small problem with vengeful ghost who wants the adopted daughter back!
Then the depressed, but otherwise PERFECT Martha Stewartesque wife sheds some of her pure motherly love and it eventually cures EVERYTHING!
When something is TOO good to be true, It usually is not real. But such is the Lifetime Fairy Tale plots.
Eventually the problem stepson goes from hating the stepmother to adoring her, the bitter senile grandmother is cured of her resentments, her senility and her hatred of her daughter!!! Oh, and that pesky ghost who tries to kill people is turned good by the pure love of the wife!
Drivel from start to finish!
A sore spot for me was when this Canadian movie included a scene at Northwestern University (my Alma Mater) suggesting that the colorless and totally looney para-psychologist professor works there! NO SUCH LUNATICS are professors at this top rated university! Why they did not use some third rate Canadian school is my question!
All in all I feel that I have been robbed of 90 minutes of my life by this sewerage of a film!!!