September 22, 1994

The Haunting of Sea Cliff Inn is a good old-fashioned ghost story. And though there are few unpredictable twists, the two-hour USA telefilm is so scary in a delicious kind of way, and so gorgeously produced, that few viewers looking for this type of romance-novel escapism will be able to resist its charms.

Starring Ally Sheedy and William Moses as a beautiful, thirtysomething couple on the run from successful but high-powered business careers that threw their marriage on the rocks, the story concerns their search for true love during the course of a dangerous affair with a 19th century Victorian inn high above the cliffs near Mendocino.

As the couple begins to renovate the inn into a bed-and-breakfast, Sheedy sees strange visions, they meet a mysterious neighbor (Louise Fletcher), their dog bites the dust, and a beautiful stranger (Lucinda Wiest) takes up residence.

It's not Shakespeare, but the production is so seamlessly good to look at, Sheedy and Moses make such a perfect couple for the '90s and Wiest such a voluptuous interloper, that the hours just glide away.

THE HAUNTING OF SEA CLIFF INN
USA
May Day Prods. in assoc. with MCA Entertainment Television
Executive producer Michael Scott
Producer Timothy Marx
Director-writer Walter Klenhard
Editor Scott Smith
Director of photography Ronn Schmidt
Cast: Ally Sheedy, William Moses, Louise Fletcher, Lucinda Wiest, Tom McCleister, Maxine Stuart, Shannon Cochran, Jay W. MacIntosh, James Horan
Airdate: Thursday, Sept. 22, 9-11 p.m.

Copyright September 1994 The Hollywood Reporter.

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