Everything Put Together

Were it not for the overexposed handheld cinematography, tripped-out soundtrack, extended nightmare sequences and the presence of Pitch Black's Radha Mitchell (who also gets an associate producer credit), this film could just as easily be airing on the Hallmark Channel as SIDS: The Silent Killer. According to this film, sudden infant death syndrome also results in the parents' being shunned by all their friends, at least until the next pregnancy comes along. As the mother who loses her infant, Mitchell has nightmares, mopes, then has more nightmares. That's it -- the whole plot. Actors, of course, love to play scenes in which they brood and go crazy, without having any concept that the audience may not be having as much fun. Roberto Schaefer's cinematography keeps things visually interesting, but spending an hour and a half with a gloomy, static lunatic hardly makes for a scintillating evening out, no matter how pretty she may be.