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After her deceased parents have left her nothing but debts, blind Grace
(Kelly Harrison) has to accept a tenant in her parents' mansion who not
only pays rent but also does some work around the house - and after her
original tenant dies in an accident only hours before moving in, she
invites rugged-looking Ward (Luke Perry), her second choice, to move in.
However, the cohabitation soon turns out to be less than perfect, because
Ward is drinking and is noisy at night, and he invites women over to his
place. Oh, and he steals from Grace (not that she would notice at first)
and sometimes kills people. Grace repeatedly calls the police to complain
about him, but everytime the cops show up, Ward has a perfectly reasonable
explanation for whatever's going on. Anyways, before long, Grace wants
Ward out of the house, but has to realize that legally she can't just move
him out. Eventually, Grace's brother Charlie (Tomas Spencer), who has
spent some time in prison, shows up, and he tries to threaten Ward, but
Ward is too clever for that because he knows using brute force would send
Charlie right back into the slammer, and for life, too. He even provokes
Charlie to become violent, just to get him out of the way, and eventually
he manages to knock him out and almost kill him to take him out of the
equation - and suddenly the fight between tenant and landlady turns into a
game of cat and mouse, a game that eventually turns in Grace's favour
though when she knocks out the lights and uses her blindness to her
advantage to fight, defeat and kill Ward in self defense. A
by-the-numbers psychothriller that has nothing new to offer to the genre.
Instead, it seems to go out of its way in not even trying to explain the
motives for Ward's actions and leaving Grace and Charlie's backstory
pretty much in the dark. But above all, it's pretty boring. And about Luke
Perry: To the audience, he will probably never be anyone else but
"that guy from Beverly Hills 90210" as it is - so
why put him in the exact same cloths that Dylan McKay would have worn in
the series and provide him with the exact same rugged look? This totally
derives his (not great but at least competent) performance of all impact. In
all, not worth your while.
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