Local psychic Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) has enough to deal with raising three boys by herself without redneck wife-beater Donnie Barksdale (Keanu Reeves, yes, really) harassing her for telling his wife, Valerie (Hilary Swank), to leave him. So when she sees a vision of missing socialite Jessica King (Katie Holmes) floating and wrapped in chains in Donnie's pond, it's a relief to put him behind bars. Except Annie's gift is telling her he didn't do it. So now she has to find the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.
For a low-budget ghost movie, this has an incredible pedigree: Blanchett, Swank, Holmes, J.K. Simmons, Giovanni Ribisi, Greg Kinnear, and the Internet's sweetheart, Reeves, playing way against type. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Sam Raimi.
And it's not bad! The middle courtroom scenes drag but contain the underrated Michael Jeter so I tolerated them, but the rest of it is perfectly decent Southern-fried dread. I wouldn't call it kid-friendly by any means but it's definitely suitable for people who don't like gore. It's streaming on Paramount+, Amazon Prime, or on Kanopy with a library card.
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