Product Details

• Released on: 2003-05-06
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: NTSC, Import
• Original language: English
• Running time: 94 minutes

On the DVD
ccTrailer
Scene access
Interactive menus
English & Spanish subtitles

Synopsis
The first of the PAX Network's several TV-movie adaptations of the novels of Mary Higgins Clark, Pretend You Don't See Her begins when real estate agent Lacey Farrell (Emma Samms) witnesses a murder. Not long afterward, Lacey is placed in the Federal Witness Protection program, along with her spunky young niece Bonnie (Kim Poirier). Danger rears its ugly head when professional hit man Curtis Caldwell Blake (Hannes Jaenicke) gloms onto Lacey's new identity. Will detective Ed Sloan (Beau Starr) be able to rescue her in time, or is it up to Lacey to extricate herself from this perilous dilemma? Former police officer Sonny Grosso of The French Connection fame functioned as the film's co-executive producer and research consultant. A British/German/Canadian co-production, the Toronto-filmed Pretend You Don't See Her made its American TV bow on January 12, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVD Menu

• Side #1 --
  • Play Movie
  • Scene Selection
  • Subtitles
    • English: On/Off
    • Spanish: On/Off
  • Trailers
    • Mary Higgins Clark: Pretend You Don't See Her
    • Mary Higgins Clark: Haven't We Met Before

Customer Reviews

Best of the Bunch
"Pretend You Don't See Her" is the best of the Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Movie adaptations. The openings are great fun -- with a rolling pastiche of "Red Shoe Diaries" cum mystery images (hee hee) and a glittering skyline, which sadly was missing from the latest installment in the series. In this film, Emma Samms plays a real estate agent who becomes embroiled in a murder mystery when her client's daughter is run over by a car and her client confides in her her belief that it was murder; then Samms ends up unwittingly witnessing the murder of the client and being entrusted with one of the biggest clues to the mystery -- the daughter's bloody journal pages. As a result, she is thrown into the witness protection program and is at great peril as the killer searches to find her. She also determines to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Samms gives a good performance in the lead, and the whole production is engaging and absorbing. There are plenty of red herrings, a good narrative, great pacing, and delicious close calls. I haven't read any of the Mary Higgins Clark novels, so I can't compare movie to book, but as a viewing experience, this one holds up well. It really is the best of the lot, thus far, and far ahead of the pack at that. I've watched it several times. (Next best in the series is "Lucky Day.") Highly recommended!