The last thing Emily (Dakota Fanning’s) mother tells her before she dies is “I love you more than anything in the world.” After their life is changed, Emily’s dad, David (Robert DeNiro) takes his daughter to relocate to the countryside, in hopes of forgetting their painful past. Their new home comes with a variety of neighbors who seem to want more than just a cup of sugar. And then there’s Elizabeth (Elizabeth Shue) a lovely woman who tries to befriend both Emily and her dad, but it seems Emily has her own friend, an imaginary one, named “Charlie”. Or does she? Like the “Good Son’ or “Secret Window” the movie is full of hints and set-ups each carefully plotted out and delivered in a well-paced manner. But like those other movies, it is often difficult for an audience to except last minute twists, betraying them by the characters they’ve most grown to love.
