****Possible Spoilers***** Mix together PSYCHO, LOLITA, and MAGIC, and you'll get the picture of what this film is like. It's an ambitious effort made in Canada about a brother and sister who grow up with a plastic dummy called Pin. Their dad is a doctor and he's also a ventriloquist who uses Pin to teach his kids about the facts of life. The problem is that dad is overprotective and creepy so the kids talk to Pin so much that soon the brother thinks he's real, even more so as he grows older. The first part of the film is good, largely because of Terry O'Quinn, who plays dad here, which will remind you of his unforgettable performance in THE STEPFATHER. But once the premise is established, it becomes more predictable from the second half on. There is a very funny scene early in the film where a nurse enters the room where Pin is "living". Another scene has David Hewlett, who plays the brother, at a movie theater with a date watching SCANNERS; Hewlett starred in SCANNERS 2 three years later.
