House Of Cards Details

When Kathleen Turner's archaeologist husband falls to his death from a Mayan pyramid in Mexico, she packs up and returns to the States where her six-year-old daughter begins to behave very strangely. Child psychologist Tommy Lee Jones is brought in to help. At first, you think the little girl (convincingly played by Asha Menina) is going to take us down a path into Stephen King territory — maybe the Mayans have put a hex on her — but, sadly, it leads only to the usual clichéd drama. It is sad to see Jones and Turner, whose career seems to be in free fall, wasting their time in this movie, which went generally unsung in the USA and unreleased in cinemas here.

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