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Admirable film.

Absolutely Fantastic

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Call me a glutton for punishment, but I usually watch Mary Higgins Clark's stories turned into films, even though they're generally schlockily produced, slow as molasses, badly acted and accompanied by Psycho music. I can't believe I'm writing this, but I'd almost rather see Grosso-Jacobsen, who normally produce movies from her books, than Lifetime.The film stars Cameron Bancroft, one of the worst actors I've ever seen, as Sterling Brooks, a self-absorbed stock broker who is killed by a traveling golf ball (probably to stop him from yelling all his lines at the top of his lungs) and goes to the other side (cue the dry ice). There he meets Joe, played by another great thespian, Greg Evigan, trying but failing to speak with some sort of British accent who is supposed to help him qualify for heaven since right now, his fate hasn't been decided.Joe and Sterling return to earth and Sterling learns that he has to help his old girlfriend Annie (Erika Eleniak) and her daughter (Nickol Tschenscher). Annie overheard mobsters talking and planning to set fire to a house and follow it up with a murder, and her evidence is critical in a case against them. She has been under protection and separated from her daughter, who is miserable. Joe wants Sterling to make sure they're reunited, and with the girl's father, for Christmas.Eleniak owns this type of film, so she knows how to handle herself. In this production, she plays a singer who does jazzed up versions of Christmas songs. I'm not talking about jazzing up Jolly Old St. Nick, she's jazzing up hymns like Silent Night.This story has similarities to Ghost and It's a Wonderful Life, and Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark can write good stories that don't make for heavy reading. "He Sees You When You're Sleeping" could have been a lovely Christmas story and a real tear-jerker, but for me, the acting wrecked it. I say spend a little extra money and get another one or two good actors and throw in a good director. You might be surprised at the results.

"This could happen"?!? In what universe would that be? If Heaven can really wait, why doesn't it? do just that, and spare us all these cloying, wishful thinking movies about the so-called "afterlife." "It's A Wonderful Life" at least had Frank Capra's and James Stewart's extraordinary talents to recommend it. This piece of treacle has only Mr. Mediocre, Greg Evigan, and Erika Elenia, whose relentless Bullockian cuteness can go only so far And It would have been a perfectly serviceable story without all of the "Ghost Whisperer" blather but that kind of thing, apparently, is exactly what all those teenage girls demand and they and their lame, puerile little taste are exercising some kind of spiritless pastel tyranny over the popular culture. The movie also contains more than a few unhappy echoes of "Ghost," the painfully silly beginning of the era of "the-only-good-man-is-a-dead-man movies

**SPOILERS** Getting killed on the golf course by a loose ball stock broker Sterling Brooks, Cameron Bancroft, ends of in this heavenly way-station where it's to be decided, by a Heavenly Counsel, where and what his final destination will be; Heaven or that other place. This will be decided on in what actions Sterling takes when he goes back on earth when he's to correct the mistakes he made while he was still alive.Being guided by his Guardian Angle Joe, Greg Evlgan, Sterling will find out that his mission is to save both Annie Campbell, Erika Elenika, and her daughter Marissa, Nickol Tschenscher, from the notorious Badgett Brothers Junior & Eddie, Eli Gabry & Craig March. It's Junior Badgett whom Amie is slated to testify against in an arson an attempted murder case that she's the only witness to.It takes a while for Sterling to get the hang of being dead as well as invisible to those, like Amie and Marissa, back on earth. It takes even longer for the not that on the ball, in realizing what his relationship is with both Amie & Nickol, Sterling to throw off his hang ups, like disliking kids, and realize that he lived a life of nihilism and self absorption not feeling or caring for those whom he hurt in the process.As Sterling starts to connect with both Amie & Marissa he not only finds his long lost humanity for his fellow human being but becomes visible to both of them. As all this is happening Marissa feeling left out, by being locked up in her home for her own protection, in the world sneaks out of her mom's and granny's, Norah Campbell, house to go ice-skating with her friends.Spotted by Eddie Badgett and his henchmen they end up kidnapping Marissa holding her hostage in that it will persuade her mom not to testify against his brother Junior in court. That all had to do with Amie, who was the singer at a party thrown by the Badgett's, overhearing Junior brag about torching Hans Kramer's, Udo Kler, home-which he later did-in retaliation for Hans being late on a loan that he owed him. As if burning down Hans house wasn't enough Junior also plans to murder him after he gets his money from Hans in order, in him being a notorious loan shark, just to keep in practice! If Amie testifies in court to what she heard Junior say he'll be put on ice, or the clink, for the rest of his miserable life! It's now up to Sterling to rescue Marissa from the Badgett Mob and thus have her mom feel safe in testifying against Junior Badgett.As things turn out it's not Sterling who ends up saving the day but someone else who, like Sterling, came back from the "other side" to straighten things out. And that more then anything else will not only save both Marissa and, if it's possible to save someone's life who's dead already, Sterling lives but turn the murderous Badgett Brothers, or at lest Eddie, into decent and law abiding citizens!A lot like the 1946 classic Christmas movie "It's a Wounderful Life" the 2002 made for TV film "He Sees You when You're Sleeping" hits all the right notes in its giving Sterling another chance in redeeming himself so he can be accepted as an angle in heaven. As for Guardian Angle Joe he's still hard at work with saving other persons assigned to him in having them clear up the messes they left on earth after they passed away! But now Joe has fellow Guardian Angle Sterling Brooks to help him out with his heavy workload.

Pretty actors in one of the worst TV movies I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong - I like bad movies, but this just seems to go on and on. It isn't that the acting is particularly bad, it's just boring. I thought it was almost over only to find it had an hour left. I used it for noise value and cleaned the house.