Like her mother, Calista "Callie" Ross was mentally ill. After the mom committed suicide, Callie was institutionalized and given proper medication. But after getting off her meds, the old Callie returned with a vengeance. She is mad at the world, and there will be a steep price to pay for those who get in her way.
We first meet Callie in Independence, Missouri, where she is fired from her waitress job for dipping into the cash register. She then steals the truck of her sleazy boyfriend Jake. Eventually, she returns to her family home in Philadelphia where she will hatch a diabolical plan to murder her father, who is incapacitated by a stroke.
Callie's most ingenious ploy was to seduce the family attorney, Hanover, then blackmail him into changing her father's will. After Jake suffocates George Ross, it looks as if Callie's devious plan has succeeded.
But Callie has not counted on the efforts of the dearest character in the film, Emma Granger, the kind housekeeper and possible lover of George Ross. Emma, who helped to raise Callie after her mother's suicide, discovers Callie's scheme and confronts her in the tension-filled climactic scene.
The performances were first-rate in keeping this potboiler engaging. The actress playing Callie was eerily convincing. Veteran actor and Lifetime fan-favorite William R. Moses has the unenviable task of playing the bedridden and mute father.
From start to finish, Callie was an incorrigible and ungrateful wretch. Narcissistic to the degree that she could not see that the people in her family truly cared about her, Callie lapsed into a world of delusion and self-deception. By the denouement, it finally appears that she will be getting the help that she needs.
We first meet Callie in Independence, Missouri, where she is fired from her waitress job for dipping into the cash register. She then steals the truck of her sleazy boyfriend Jake. Eventually, she returns to her family home in Philadelphia where she will hatch a diabolical plan to murder her father, who is incapacitated by a stroke.
Callie's most ingenious ploy was to seduce the family attorney, Hanover, then blackmail him into changing her father's will. After Jake suffocates George Ross, it looks as if Callie's devious plan has succeeded.
But Callie has not counted on the efforts of the dearest character in the film, Emma Granger, the kind housekeeper and possible lover of George Ross. Emma, who helped to raise Callie after her mother's suicide, discovers Callie's scheme and confronts her in the tension-filled climactic scene.
The performances were first-rate in keeping this potboiler engaging. The actress playing Callie was eerily convincing. Veteran actor and Lifetime fan-favorite William R. Moses has the unenviable task of playing the bedridden and mute father.
From start to finish, Callie was an incorrigible and ungrateful wretch. Narcissistic to the degree that she could not see that the people in her family truly cared about her, Callie lapsed into a world of delusion and self-deception. By the denouement, it finally appears that she will be getting the help that she needs.