Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, USA: When lovely Marie (Lyne Renee)
moves into the mansion next door, Harry (Noah Segan) is quick to befriend
her, and before you know it, the two become lovers. Problem is though that
Harry's mother Beth (Margot Kidder), whom he still lives with, doesn't
approve of her, and she soon makes up a plan to get rid of Marie for good
with her best friend Luz (Adriana O'Neil) - and these plans are not just
idle talks, neither, since many years ago, Beth has killed Harry's father
and his mistress out of jealousy. Still their plans amount to nothing when
Luz kills her own husband, snakehandler Burt (Michael Bowen), using a
rattlesnake, but then gets bitten to death himself. Harry and Marie
meanwhile make plans to move to Hollywood ... Ultimately, Beth abducts
Marie's small daughter Kiki (Annika Moffat) and sits down on the railroad
tracks to wait for the next train to run them over, when ... Harry wakes
up, hears the news that his mother was run over by a train, but also
learns that he never had a neighbour called Marie, actually he never had a
neighbour at all, this was all just in his mind ... A film that
definitely has its moments of weirdness - but in all it is just so badly
written that the story does in no way manage to hold its moments of
weirdness together, instead seems to totally lose itself in itself,
culminating in an ending that makes no sense at all. That Noah Segan lacks
the charisma to carry the film doesn't help one bit either of course, and
thus he feels like a supporting character in his own story. Thanks to some
ideas this one's not a complete failure, but it's not a film one has to
see either.
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