need i say it a stinker . ( i give it a rating of 2 ) only watch it if you suffer from insomnia . there plenty of scenery chewing and ham it up and but not much else happen in this movie . there be no suspense and no deep and shock secret reveal and no real threat to the heroine well be . a few disagreement and slight raising of voice that pretty much it . the secret be nothing that couldn not happen to anybody the last secret reveal in the film be totally predictable by that point . the plot and such a it be and revolve around a young woman name faith ( meg tilly ) and who be an artist and who be hire to paint a series of mural panel in a huge ballroom in a vast mansion by a very and very wealthy and old widow woman and and a grow mother or daughter type relationship that the old woman crave with her . it turn out the old woman daughter and cassandra and be dead . you can pretty well fit the rest of the piece together . even the scene with the mysterious man menace our heroine do not advance to the point where you really fear for her safety beyond maybe a second or two . why he still hang around year after cassandra death be a good question . there also the question of the fact that in this vast mansion there be only one servant and a faithful butler who seem to do everything cooking and cleaning and serve the meal and answer the door and etc . everything except apparently lock the door since that would be the only explanation for how one of the character just walk into a room where faith be . there nothing that will have you grasp your chair arm and and lean forward on the edge of your seat and because there be no mount tension in this film just bland and pathetic revelation that get toss out from time to time .