Try to Remember 2004

      A supposedly wrapped up murder case comes back to haunt a small town 15 years later.  All the witnesses who testified in the case have started dying??  After twelve years of being away, Lisa Monroe returns to her usually quiet hometown of Milford to work as a police detective.  She was recruited by her childhood friend, now Lieutenant Joe O'Conner.  The first case that she works as lead investigator is the death of Louise Dexter, her grandmother.  Although the autopsy points to the death being accidental, Lisa finds evidence that implicates Jake Mitchell as the murderer. 

     Jake Mitchell molested and killed Lisa's best friend Jenny Rand fifteen years earlier.  Jake has been paroled and has returned to Milford to live.  At his trial, he vowed revenge on the four people who testified against him, Louise, Sergeant Stuart Kling (Lisa's colleague who does not respect her investigative abilities), a security guard named Vinnie DiCampo and Lisa. 

     To some extent, all four people who testified feel guilty but especially Lisa about not preventing Jenny's death.  Each person had an opportunity that day to intervene in the interaction between Jake and Jenny.  Lisa's current mission is to find and stop Jake before he kills all those that testified.  She tries to be objective in the face of what so far is only circumstantial evidence against Mitchell.  Being objective is something difficult for her to do?  

     The movie is easy to watch and it is also a typical TV movie with various weaknesses from lack of character depth to corny plot twists.  It is a reworking of a familiar murder and mystery storyline with flaws.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

96 min mystery based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, directed by Jeff Beesley and written by Jeff Martel and John Benjamin Martin with Gabrielle Anwar, Max Martini, Diego Wallraff, Garry Chalk, David Richmond-Peck, Gerald Lenton-Young, Sheila Paterson, Andrea Runge, Alan Bratt, Rosie Frier-Dryden, Ian Black, Kathryn Bracht.

Note:  Imdb 5.6* out of 10* with 342 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 18% audience scores with 50+ ratings, themoviescene.co.uk 3* out of 5*, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 100 ratings.