1947 crime drama
Rating: 13/20
Plot: A woman kills her husband right after midnight on New Year's Day, but then finds herself starting the previous year over with a chance to make things right. Will she manage to change that tragic outcome or is she trapped by fate?
"She made a wish, a tragic one at a magic time." That's almost poetry!
I really liked the idea behind this movie and am surprised it hasn't seen a remake or two. I like what we learn with poor Sheila Page's story, about how destiny's a "stubborn old girl." It's a cool story, but it lags in a 1940's way, and most of the performers overact. Well, I take that back. The woman all overact with those sort of loud exasperated woman voices. The guys all act ike guys in noirish 40's pictures. The music's gigantic, really in-your-face at times. It's almost comical during one scene where a character says, "He can walk," a sentence punctuated with this huge music.
This movie might be worth watching if you typically like films from this period, but it's a little frustrating that a story idea with so much potential winds up being so hohum. It's almost like the makers of this were fatigued after coming up with the idea and had nothing left when actually trying to tell the story.
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