![]() ![]() Then North’s brother, Southie, arrives with his TV newswoman, who has sniffed out the ghost story and wants to conduct a séance. They killed Aunt May, whose spirit remains and chats up Andie about North, inadvertently reminding Andie how much she still loves him and not poor Will. Two came with the house a century ago and are clearly sinister. But then there are ghosts that Andie and the kids see. Immediately, Andie begins to succeed with them where the nannies failed. Blonde, waiflike Alice has a violent temper when crossed. Crumb, with her “reptile smile,” she knows she’s in for a challenge. As soon as Andie meets the housekeeper, Mrs. ![]() ![]() North has only met them once, leaving them in the care of a string of nannies in their creepy Victorian mansion imported from England by the children’s ancestor. North immediately offers a proposition she convinces herself she can’t refuse: $10,000 if she will spend a month in the wilds of southern Ohio caring for two orphaned children, distant relatives for whom he’s had responsibility since their Aunt May’s death two years earlier. Now that she’s engaged to a nice writer, she drops by North’s office to return the years of alimony checks she never cashed. Ten years ago Andie met, married and divorced love of her life North because he put his Columbus, Ohio, law career ahead of their marriage. Crusie ( Agnes and the Hitman, 2007, etc.) returns with a romantic comedy cum ghost story with facetious nods to Henry James and Daphne du Maurier. ![]()
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