Separation

THE GIST: A little girl's odd puppets, the brainchild of her father's comics' designs, suddenly begin to haunt the house they're living in.

As usual, I've tried to keep any spoilers out my summary - hence its brevity - but it's very hard to review Separation without mentioning its utter lack of focus, which ultimately dooms the project.

By that I mean that the movie tries to juggle too many storylines: there's family drama, there's legal fights, there's marital strife, there's house hauntings, there's apparitions and manifestations, and that's just for starters!!

Rupert Friend, Brian Cox, and Simon Quarterman are all well proven actors, and do the best they can with the material at hand, but it's just not enough.

THE BOTTOM LINE: A wildly rambling script turns a promising kernel of a story into a muddled mess. What a pity!

Grade: 3