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Invasion


            Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter Ceci -Cecelia- (Ariel Gade) move to a flat in a condominium because of Dahlia's impending divorce. They go to live to Roosevelt Island, a neighbourhood in New York. Because her soon-to-be-ex-husband Kyle (Dougray Scott) rejects the new school and the new surroundings, it looks that the proceedings for Ceci's custody are turning nasty. The mediators (Bill Buell and Linda Emond) feel that Ceci would be the most damaged person at the end of the divorce, regardless of whom the custody's winner will turn out to be eventually. Dahlia and Ceci live on the ninth floor. Dahlia tries to keep her routines, reading children's books to Ceci before going to bed, taking her to school, etc. However, she keeps on getting splitting headaches and has to take heavy medication. The condo has laundry facilities in the basement and a rude clerk called Veeck (Pete Postlethwaite) who is always complaining about everything but not doing much.Pretty soon, Dahlia finds herself exhausted. She needs to keep her job to pay her bills, her mother (Elina Löwensohn) disapproves of her life and finds herself worried about Dahlia's psychological strength. When Dahlia first took a look at the flat, she didn't notice that there was a damp stain in a bedroom, but later on, when she and Ceci are already living there, it becomes a huge problem. They also begin to hear strange noises coming from the other side of the walls, The flat is badly-lit, the same as the dilapitated corridors or the dark basement. The clerk promises to call in a plumber.Two teenaged boys are making mayhem around the flat. They are almost always together and they are considered vandals. One of them even makes a sexual remark to Dahlia when they found her on the basement preparing a washing machine full of clothes. However, they leave , and Dahlia is alone when she turns on the washing machine. It doesn't seem to work properly so she starts another one. She hears strange noises, the water inside the washing machine turns nasty brown and Dahlia thinks that there is a girl inside the washing machine. She pulls the lid until the machine's door opens, but later, when she realises that there is nobody inside, she blames it on a prank played by the two teenaged boys.Ceci has been unable to make friends in her new school, so she starts playing with her imaginary friend, Natasha. Dahlia tries not to worry, but the weight of the world on her shoulders starts to take its toll. The clerk says that Ceci must have seen/heard Natasha, the little girl who lives in the 10th floor with her father. After the incident in the laudromat, Dahlia sees the red Hello Kittly schoolbag named after Natasha. When Ceci gives it back to the clerk, he just throws it away again.Jeff Platzer (Tim Roth) is Dahlia's lawyer. He seems to live in his car, all on his own. However, when Dahlia calls him in panic a Sunday evening, he says to her that he is taking his family to the cinema and that he will call on Dahlia the next day. Cue to him, all by himself in the gritty cinema.Dahlia talks to Ceci and tells her to stop playing with her invisible friend. Later, at school, Ceci is making a drawing of herself and her mother in front of the home. It looks like an invisible force is forcing her to paint on top of the drawing, so that everything becomes a blurred disaster. Ceci gets annoyed and shouts to the invisible energy to stop it. The teacher (Camryn Manheim), sees that Ceci is having a kind of nervous breakdown. She takes Ceci to the bathroom so that she can wash her hands. There, muddy water goes out from all the taps, and Ceci encloses herself within a toilet cubicle. A dark-haired girl in a red coat walks by, splashing on the watery floor.The teacher (Camryn Manheim) phones Dahlia, who arrives all wet from the heavy rain. She is told that Ceci got dizzy and fainted in the bathroom.Kyle accuses Dahlia of being unstable and a bad influence for Ceci. Platzer asks Dahlia whether there is anything real in all those accusations, and Dahlia talks about her headaches. Platzer takes the matter on his own hands, as he seems to feel that Dahlia is about to have a breakdown. He phones the owner of the building, Mr Murray (John C. Reilly), who seems really upset when he notices the level of damage made by the water coming from the 10th floor. Murray promises that a plumber will arrive the following day. Next day, the plumber says that the pipes themselves are not the problem, as there was no leakage to begin with.Dahlia decides to take her fears seriously and investigate the matter. She goes up to the 10th floor, but nobody lives there anymore.On the 10th floor there lived a family of Russians. They were a disfunctional family: the mother was an alcoholic, but their only young child, Natasha (Perla Harney-Hardine), was nice and welcoming. The mother checked herself into rehab, leaving Natasha with her father. The father returned to Russia, taking for granted that Natasha was with her mother. The child was abandoned by both parents, so one day, when on the rooftop, she walked up the ladder to the big reservoir and drowned in it. It seems that the clerk knew about it, but he refused to do anything about the matter, because after all, it was not his job. Instead, he just stopped taking care of the reservoir, and that was why Dahlia's apartment was getting flooded again and again.Dahlia peers inside the reservoir. She immediately spots Natasha's corpse. Natasha opens her eyes and tries to take Dahlia inside, but Dahlia leaves the place and phones the police. The police arrest Veeck, but there is no way to prove that either of Natasha's parents killed her, and Veeck is probably only guilty of not having phoned the police when he realised that Natasha was dead.Once that the ordeal seems to be over, Dahlia talks to Kyle. She proposes to reach an agreement over Ceci's custody and live closer to Kyle. Kyle is overjoyed to hear it. Dahlia intends to leave the condo in only a week... for good.That night, Dahlia prepares a bath with bubbles for Ceci. Dahlia leaves Ceci in the bath and talks on the phone to her mum. Dahlia is having her bath playing with a blue doll. When Dahlia is about to take Ceci out of the bath the girl is already in the living room, wrapped in a robe. Dahlia starts reading a children's book to her, when suddenly she realises that it is Natasha, not Ceci.Dahlia has to break down the bathroom door. Natasha is trying to drown Ceci. To save her daughter, Dahlia offers to take care of Natasha forever. The bathroom becomes flooded.The police are in the building again. They think that Dahlia has committed suicide. Kyle picks Ceci up, and takes her to his home. When they are in the lift, they become stranded. At that moment, the ghost of Dahlia talks to Ceci, combs her hair and tells her that if she has a problem in the future Dahlia would be in the building waiting and that she would help her. Meanhwile, Ceci leaves the building happily, and Dahlia stays to take care of Natasha.
    

Dark Water


            "Call of the Wild" is a modern-day story incorporating elements of Jack London's classic short novel. Christopher Lloyd stars as a recently widowed man living in Montana who takes his young granddaughter Ryann (Ariel Gade) in for several weeks while her parents are out of the country. When a wild hybrid wolf/dog shows up injured on the back porch one night, Ryann wants to take him back to Boston as a pet, but her grandfather knows the animal will eventually have to return to the wild. To help his granddaughter understand, he begins to read her Jack London's "Call of the Wild" each night ... but Ryann has ideas of her own, and helps a local boy train the magnificent animal to become a sled dog leader. Timothy Bottoms plays a dark-hearted local bully who tries to claim the dog as his own, and Wes Studi stars as a mysterious mountain man who always seems to appear on the fringe of the action.***********************KrystelClaire's summary from now on ********************
*******************SPOILERS ************************************Ryann (Ariel Gade) goes to live with her grandfather "Grandpa" Bill Hale (Christopher Lloyd) to an always snowy countryside place in Montana for a while. Her parents will be away for some time. She discovers a hurt dangerous animal on the garage of Grandpa's. Dr Spencer (Jaleel White) realises the dog is strongly wounded, and recommends that it's sacrified. However, Ryann doesn't agree with that: she heals a half-dog half-wolf animal, whom she will call Buck -after the main character in Jack London's novella-, although her grandfather tells her that she can't tame Buck, because it's used to be wild.. Grandpa reads her parts of Jack London's novel Call of the Wild. Ryann uses a lot of her money to feed the animal, but Buck doesn't seem too keen on being tamed.Oswald "Ozz" Heep (Devon Graye) threatens Jack Ferguson (Kameron Knox) because of young blonde shop-attendant Marla (Devon Iott) is rude to him. He can't smoke within the shop and the shop attendant tells him so expidiciously. Heep (Timothy Bottoms), Ozz's father, claims to have been the first one in rescuing the dog, but that the dog-wolf broke free of its rope and that's why it appeared at Grandpa's garage. Jack realises that Buck would be a wonderful sledge dog and he sets to train him. He explains to Ryann that some dogs love that task, feeling happy about it. Ryann intends to take it to Boston with her.Sheriff Taylor (Veronica Cartwright) appears with the Heeps claiming the dog, but Grandpa says that there are no proof. Buck hates Heep but loves Ozz. Sheriff Taylor and Ryann propose a race, the winner taking Buck. So they immediately start educating Buck. Throughout, Granpa keeps on reading the story of Buck -Jack London's version. Granpa says that Ryann can only keep Buck if her parents allow it, but that Buck shold adapt to the life of a home animal as a prior condition to any of that. Tracy (Aimee Teegarden) receives piano lessons from Jack's mother. Jack likes her and Tracy likes him. During the training of Buck, Jack realises that the dog is a born leader.Ryann watches a scary man who buys a huge knife while she is buying more dog food. The man talks to her, but she runs away. The man, -who Ryann will later know its' Hatcher (Wes Studi)- uses the knife to cut a slice of an apple and wolf it down. Ryann asks Grandpa about Hatchett. He says that he used to be a convict, and that there are all sorts of wild rumours about him, but he also laughs those rumous off, saying that all small-town lives need something to talk about.Jolene (Joyce DeWitt) complains that all her hens have disappeared. She wants Grandpa to compensate her with money. Ryann says that Buck didn't leave the garage in all night. The Heeps' dogs can't run so much because Heep doesn't buy meat for them. But Heep doesn't want to spend any money at all, not even in things Ozz needs. Heep tells Ozz that he's stupid, not like Jack. Ryann tells Jack that he will keep Buck if she can't take the dog to Boston. Ryann talks to her mother on the phone but she doesn't tell her that she's got a dog. Paula is amazed that Ryann can treat dogs well. Grandpa tells Paula what Ryann wants, but both agree that city life will not be good for a half-wild dog.Jack feels that Buck is ready, so he wants to make a short real race. Ryann asks her father. Grandpa insists that they won't go farther away than a kilometer, as they are too young, all the paths are covered in snow and it's gonna be the first time they practice. Ryann promises, but she's not happy about it. Jack says that they will do the same itinerary several times to compensate that. However, when they reach the kilometer, Jack can't stop Buck. The dog keeps on running. The dogs get all tangled and Jack gets a sprained ankle. To unwind the mess, they need to release Buck. Buck runs away immediately after Jack frees it. Ryann asks Jack to tell Grandpa that it was her fault, because she insisted on going on. Jack hasn't got coverage for his mobile phone there. Obviously, Grandpa gets worrited when Jack and Ryann are late. Jack has untangled the dogs, who are on formation now. Buck runs to a cottage and then he comes back to Jack and Ryann. Buck has warned Hatcher.Hatcher takes all humans and animals to his cottage. He tells Taylor by radio that they are all all right. Hatcher has got photographs of Dingo, his best dog -he had more common sense than many humans. Ryann is afraid of Grandpa's getting angry. He tells her off. He doesn't read The Call of the Wild to her that night, demands that her homework is done and forbids her to take part in the race. The next night, when all of Ryann's homework is done, he reads to her how Buck hunted a deer, to which Ryann says she doesn't want to hear the story anymore.At the last minute, Jack doesn't want to participate in the race, as he thinks he's going to lose, but Marla says she supports him. Grandpa reads Ryann's homework talking about her wonderful holidays and about late grandmother. That convinces Grandpa to let Ryann help Jack, who has finally decided to run the race. Ryann is even going to be on the sledge with Jack. Heep is not playing fair: he has manipulated the sledge, and he gives Ozz meat to throw it to the floor so that the dogs will eat it and take another way. Heep tells Ozz that he can't return home if he doesn't win the race.Ozz doesn't use the tricks which his father has told him. He gives the meat to Jack, saying that next year he'll go to university, although his father doesn't know it yet. Heep complains to sheriff Taylor and he threatens Buck, who jumps to him. Heep wants Taylor to kill Buck, saying that it's a hazard to everybody. Heep will leave to the north, but he'll return to have his own back. Everybody looks to Buck with worry.
Taylor knows she'll have to do that. Ryann admits that Buck ran away and ate the hens. Buck is half-wolf, but he's not prepared to live on the wild again. Paula has said that there is no way they'll keep a dog in Boston, so Taylor takes it to the city kennels to kill Buck. Finally, Hatcher will keep the dog with him. Ryann reads the ending to The Call of the Wild on her own. She has to go back to Boston and Grandpa gives a smaller home dog as a gift. Ryann gets a liking to the dog immediately.
    

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