Australian writer-director Ann Turner's psychological drama, shot in Melbourne, concerns a woman (Susan Sarandon) who becomes convinced that she is being stalked. She is a successful children's book illustrator but after her mother's death is finding it difficult to get back to work - there is an image from her past haunting her dreams. She then becomes convinced that she has found her stalker but it's hard to make anyone believe her.
Gradually, she becomes the aggressor, consumed by her conviction that she has found the culprit, although uncertain about where the stalker will strike next and mistrustful of her husband's role in it all. Sarandon plays the unravelling figure well and Sam Neill brings an ambiguous, genial quality to the role of her husband but the film feels overwrought and overstated, too intent on ensuring that its credentials as a thriller are established and constantly referencing classics of the genre. Right from the early scenes, all the tics and tricks of suspense are wheeled out.
It's as if Turner doesn't trust the possibilities - melodramatic but potentially intriguing - that her own story offers. Australian writer-director Ann Turner's psychological drama, shot in Melbourne, concerns a woman (Susan Sarandon) who becomes convinced that she is being stalked.
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