Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

pmichener1954 I read other reviews about bad acting. Forget it. Young people cutting their teeth on their early roles. Brit Robertson has done many fine projects since, including a very fine performance in Disney's Avalon High, Relax and watch this movie for what it is, light family entertainment,

tmburr My 6 year old enjoys this movie, but hasn't a clue of course in the unbelievability of the storyline, and this excludes the "mission" of the children with regards to communicating with a ghost.The incredibly "slow, straight faced" acting of especially the mother of the children when she finds out about the IRS is unbelievable.Without researching the claim at all of this huge debt supposedly owed, she simply shuffles away, leaving a teenager in charge of her business for 2 weeks?!?No reaction except "we owe the IRS money (enough to purchase a home in some parts of the country)but don't worry kids, everything will be fine." (no tears? no frantic calls to the IRS?) Botox injections must have been administered throughout, this lady's acting is worse than amateur.But maybe the realistic details were purposely left out. Maybe the realistic reaction that would be expected from the mother and grandmother (where is the father and grandfather??)was not important after all, this was suppose to be for kids who would not understand such details in the first place.The children's acting was a reflection of the director. Sure they could have put a little more "spunk" into their parts, but it seems the children's acting style simply was following the acting style of the adults in the movie: SLOW.

cagne-1 Saying this movie has bad acting is being unfair to bad actors. My wife walked into the room and remarked on one of the child actor's apparent "issues" but then realized that it was just a very bad performance. But, all the talent (with the exception of the eldest son) in this movie is on an equal, very bad level. This includes the writing and direction and editing and art direction and everything else so one really can't blame the kids. This is an after school movie that couldn't find a school to go after.On the other hand, my 9 year old watched the whole thing and he can be a tough sell. Go figure...

bazanar i have seen this movie and really sucks big time, not only the child acting also the adults are so fake that u can't imagine. Not even good for kids, maybe up to 4 year old. The plot, the story, the script, the acting OMG i can't believe. This doesn't rate even for Z category.