Stranger with My Face (TV Movie 2009)

Stranger with My Face: Directed by Jeff Renfroe. With Catherine Hicks, Alexz Johnson, Andrew Francis, Emily Hirst. After the shocking untimely death of her husband, Shelley Stratton (Catherine Hicks) moves her daughter Alexis (Emily Hirst) and her adopted daughter Laurie (Alexz Johnson) to their remote summer house to give her family a fresh start. As Laurie begins to settle in and put her life back together, she gets the eerie feeling that she is constantly being watched. Her uneasiness grows when people start claiming to see her in places she has never been. The family’s delicate state unravels when Laurie unearths her dark past, discovering a twin sister that she never knew she had. Laurie is forced to delve deeper into her twin’s secrets, for it turns out her twin has been locked up for years. Laurie must now understand their strange connection in order to prevent her sister from taking over her life and harming her loved ones.

“I didnt know it was the Lois Duncan book until later on in the movie. I read the book as a kid. It wasnt a great plot. But it was okay. The movie itself wasnt any better and such a disappointment. It was boring and sadly white washed, which is annoying because the main character is Native American, which was one rarity when the book came out. Overall, the changes were the regular Hollywood changes. It had some parts true to the book but it was largely disappointing. Oh well, its a tv movie. I would not recommend even if I didnt read the book.”