three writer make a valiant attempt to adapt jane stanton hitchcock novel for the tube and yet this television movie have ultimately be inject with too much melodrama and just doesn not know when to quit . struggle artist meg tilly suddenly find herself employ by wealthy and enigmatic ellen burstyn and who desire a mural paint on the wall of her unused ballroom . after learn about the last gathering hold there ellen daughter come out party tilly decide on her artistic theme and never dream the daughter die mysteriously before the function even begin and nor that she and the decease bore a striking resemblance to one another . two superb actress lend their service to an incredible yarn which doesn not bear close scrutiny and one that fail to match either lady in emotional intensity . burstyn role teeter on camp and while tilly get stuck do the dreamy eye waif routine . only one sequence late in the film ( the morning after the mural be finish ) be charge with honest feeling and anger and betrayal . the rest be piffle .