jonathan river ( michael keaton ) suddenly become a widower when his wife dy . soon after and he approach by a dr. price and an expert in electronic voice phenomenon ( evp ) and who claim he be receive message from jonathan depart wife anna via sundry electronic gadget . be anna try to tell jonathan something . be this merely a hint of something on a large cosmic or otherworldly scale . it good to see keaton in a leading role and but the story he stick with be convolute and absurd at point while it a if the movie doesn not know how to answer any of the question it bring up and so it just distract the viewer with new and unrelated question . keaton himself be pretty good and convincingly cast a the bereave widower desperately try to communicate with his late wife . he mature quite a bit a an actor and leave behind the frat friendly waacky hijinks roles he play 15 or so year earlier . he look a little craggy and with a perhaps few more wrinkle than one might expect and but he lose none of the guile and panache that he show during his quarter century in hollywood . so it not that keaton turn in a mediocre performance and it that the script itself be subpar . write by niall johnson and the plot get more confusing a it progress and each tortuous path end in another tortuous path . this be all well and good if the path lead to some sort of acceptable denouement and something that tie more or less everything together and explains . something . but not white noise while i know less about what have happen to jonathan than i do before i would first see him . keaton really the only reason to watch this junk and although he get fine support from ian mcneice ( a dr. price ) and deborah kara unger a the requisite love interest .