Shadow Play (1986)
Directed by Susan Shadburne
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
An author is haunted by the spirit of her dead husband in this routine supernatural thriller by Susan Shadburne. Morgan Hanna (Dee Wallace Stone) returns to the island where her husband died several years earlier in hops of breaking through her writer's block. She stays with her late husband's mother (Cloris Leachman), joins a local drama group, and starts working on a play. But she begins to see her husband in the mirrors and windows of the house, and is compelled to investigate. At the heart of her turmoil is she really doesn't know if he fell accidentally from the roof of the lighthouse, or if he was pushed.
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supernatural, accident, death, ghost, mental-illness, possession, writing