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 | | (1999) (/U.S.) Juliana Wimbles, Lothaire Bluteau, Michel Monty, Marsha Mason, Leslie Hope, Ben Cook, Dan Lett, James Allodi, Eugene Lipinski, Brooke Johnson.....Bitter teen (Wimbles) staying with her grandmother (American Mason) in rural Newfoundland, befriends the ghosts of two French aviators (Bluteau and Monty) who crashed in 1927 making a trans-Atlantic flight. |
 | | The domestic scenes are peopled by unpleasant personalities, but the movie genuinely picks up -- getting both funnier and more poignant -- as it focuses on her relationships with the ghosts, building to a solid climax. |
 | | Mix of suspense and character drama improves as it goes along, though still suffers from the static pacing of a lot of straight-to-video flicks (not helped by the leden musical score) and a few too many dumb, implausible scenes that keep it from being more than O.K. sc: Ed Fitzgerald, Paul Koval. |
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