Jennifer Beals is not in this movie AT ALL but she should have been cast as the main character, so I’m going to just move forward as if it’s her, got it? Ok, so Jennifer owns a “bar” which seems more like a restaurant? Oh! And it’s Envie (a coffee shop where my oldest friend works irl)! So Jennifer owns Envie and seems to live on top of it, maybe? Anyway, her grandmother (MOTHER FREAKING FAYE DUNAWAY with the slurriest funniest Southern accent ever) lives out on the bayou next door to Oak Alley and so inevitably Jennifer meets Jerry O’Connell while he’s moving in. Jerry O’Connell is a big shot Boston lawyer who moves to New Orleans post Katrina to open a legal clinic, and then buys Oak Alley Plantation! Ok, it’s not called Oak Alley in the movie, but it was totally filmed there! He was drawn to the building by *insert spooky voice* mysterious forces. Only the companionship of alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall-a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years.Synopsis: This is some creme de la creme Lifetime fare. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows. He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief-sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up, Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream.ĭetermined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana-where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house…ĭeclan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans.
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