Still Small Voices (2007)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

the audience applauded

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is one of my favorite TV movies. I watch Lifetime quite often as they have some good mysteries, but am not normally impressed with the quality of the movies in the sense they mostly seem to be formulaic (and often overtly or ambivalently anti-male). This however is a TERRIFIC movie. Though part mystery, part fantasy, it is very realistic and emotionally seductive. Bell is VERY believable and sympathetic (and also beautiful). For once in an LMN movie the males are not totally stupid, insensitive or uncaring. I loved the ending when I found the apparently "bad" guy (who looked menacing and scary) was actually a hero. The twists and turns were not only surprising but touching. Rarely have I FELT so much in a movie. It raises some disturbing issues but resolves in a positive but believable way. I purchased this on DVD as it is a movie I can watch over and over. The soundtrack reinforces the uncertainty and the emotions, the acting is uniformly good, the script very believable (though addressing supernatural or paranormal issues), the direction crisp and production values relatively high. I recommend this to anyone who likes FEEL GOOD movies and can handle a little bit of fantasy.

***SPOILERS*** It takes a while for the made for TV movie "Still Small Voices" to get it's act together with 911 emergency operator Michael Summer, Catherine Bell, tracking down what exactly has been driving her almost insane since she almost bled to death on the operating table giving birth to a stillborn child. Michael had since been suffering hallucinations on her job and nightmares in her sleep about something that happened some thirty years ago that she's somehow connected to.Forced to take an unwanted vacation by her boss Sgt. Gillett, Eugene Clark, Michael is then drawn to this out of the way town in rural Pennsylvania called Starlight. It's there that Michael is confronted with an event that in some strange way is responsible for what she's been going through the last few weeks the drowning of local 10 year-old girl Carrie Waverly, Emily Swiss. Just as were introduced to Carrie and the circumstances of her death or disappearance were confronted with this other ten year-old girl Nellie Lipton, Kendra Mio, who disappeared about the same time that Carrie did. What now comes into the picture, with the connection between Carrie and Nellie, is just what the two girls have to do with each other!The film saves all it fireworks and surprises for the very end and it's well worth waiting for with the story up until then leaving it's audience almost totally confused to what's going on. Michaels visions of what happened to Carrie are right on target and so accurate to the point where they pinpoint to just who was responsible for both her kidnapping and possible murder a convicted both serial murder and arsonist named Burton Hayes, Charles Martin Smith.The both shocking and totally out of the blue surprise ending is a bit too much to take but after it's sprung you realize that it's about the only thing that ties, as unrelated as they are, all the loose ends of the movie together. Michael discovers the truth behind Carrie's disappearance and that truth has to do with someone very close to her. There's also the story of this wild looking guy who keeps popping up in the movie with a star-like tattoo on his chest and ax who keeps breaking down doors. We and Michael get the impression that he had something to do with Carrie's, as well as her friends Nellie, death or disappearance.****SPOILER ALERT**** It's only at the very end of the movie that Michael realizes that he, the crazy looking tattooed guy, was in fact the person who saved Carrie's life when she was left to die in a burning building by that psycho Burton Hayes. The "Star-Man" not realizing that Nellie was already dead tried to later rescue her like he did Carrie only to end up dying in the flames. As for Carrie she not only survived but grew up into adulthood and it's those circumstances and the person responsible for them that's undoubtedly the big surprise at the conclusion of "Still Small Voices".

We all know that Catherine Bell is one of the top most beautiful women on TV but I think what people don't realize is what an amazing and gifted actress she is too. Catherine gave a performance that will make you stand up and take notice of what a truly talented and terrific actress this young woman is. She keeps you riveted to the screen the entire movie in Still Small Voices-- you would be afraid to blink because you thought you might miss something... the plot was so suspenseful and the ending was something that made you say huh? This movie is so worth watching-- if you haven't seen it yet, see it. And even if you don't think the movie sounds intriguing enough, then at least tune in to see the acting performance that Catherine gives. She will not and does not disappoint. NEW: I watched SSV again (last week) and it honestly has to be the best movie on TV I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It has everything that you would want in a movie--the emotions are a roller-coaster. Great great movie and again a TERRIFIC performance by Catherine Bell!!! Btw to see more of Catherine's amazing acting, watch Army Wives!! Will not disappoint!!

I enjoyed working on this 14 day production. There was an incredible cast and crew who went into making this movie. George Buza was such a great guy. After his recent loss, he did a superb job. Little Emily Swiss was a sweetheart and I shall forever be known as the "bird man" because of her. ;) Catherine was so sweet and kind and down to earth. She's one of the few actor's I met who's still in the "real world". In this show, you'll see my old leather couch go up in flames in one terrifying scene. this production was very thought provoking even in watching it being filmed. Very interested in seeing it aired. It's like one of those 200 page novels you read as a teenager when you hated reading and just could not put down until you finished. I read the script while filming the call centre scene and had to finish it before I could go back to working. A great read and a great story... for those interested in paranormal/psychological mysteries as this.