this film hold my interest enough to watch it several time . the plot have hole and but the lead performer make it work . catherine mary stewart ( julia kerbridge ) and do a great job a a woman of 37 who have sacrifice everything else to become a physician . she work year to earn the money to go to medical school . she be perform brilliantly in her residency and be just about to take her board exam and realize her dream . meanwhile and julia sister and brother in law be murder and a the near living relative she be compel to take in her niece amanda ( arlen aguayo stewart ) to avoid have her become a ward of the state . amanda be about 7 year old from her appearance . amanda be so traumatized from her parent murder that she have become mute . needless to say and julia 16 hour day get long care for amanda . rob lowe play kevin finney and a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who work his way into the life of julia and amanda . he be always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress . amanda really start to warm up to kevin a the film progress and perhaps more than to her aunt . julia start to rely on kevin to take some of the load of care for amanda a she attempt to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination . kevin be always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia . the chemistry between rob and catherine mary be great . you keep watch to see them get together before the end of the film . the chemistry between rob and arlen be good as well . arlen manage to convey quite a lot without the benefit of word . the plot have julia and amanda gradually warm up to each other . you can see them work out a relationship a the film progress . we discover that julia sister and brother in law ( the meyers ) be involve in industrial espionage . they steal an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer . they have three associate who intend to share the proceeds of the theft . julia discovers that the meyers be plan to skip the country under assumed identity . the plot be unclear whether the meyers intend to double cross their associate or be themselves double cross . in any case the meyers be murder in their home by 2 of their former associate . the killer make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before kill them . the killer search the home and fail to find their prize . they leave a living witness to their crime and amanda . the killer then spend the remainder of the film make clumsy attempt to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize be locate . eventually and the killer kidnap amanda in hope she know something about the microchip location . eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin . he be an investigator hire to recover the steal microchip . after some rough moment in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guy . the predictable end have the three form a family and move happily into a future together . what strike me about the plot be major hole . kevin move into the same apartment building a julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers . how do he know that the microchip be not already in the hand of the killer . the killer blithely leave fingerprint at the murder scene and with no concern for conceal their identity . the killer that pretend to be a psychiatrist be reveal to amanda by the remnant of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe sol . he be not show in the murder scene at the start of the film . there be other weakness along these line too numerous to mention . the film could have be a lot well if the script have be refine more before film . fill in the plot hole would have add little expense and greatly improve the effort .