Lena Winters and her 28-year-old daughter Casey suffered a traumatic ordeal when they were held captive for eight long years by Lena's deranged husband, Timothy Fast. They escaped his clutches and sent Timothy to prison. Now, twenty years later, a voice from the past returns in the form of Timothy's equally psychotic son Jacob, who is carrying out copycat murders drawn from the playbook of his sick father. Like father, like son!
When Lena is kidnapped by Jacob while about to give him a shave in her Diva styling salon, the feisty daughter Casey moves into action with a private eye named Nate Bishop, who has been fascinated by their case for years when they went by the named of Jane and Charlotte Marsh. Unfortunately for poor Casey, she is fated to come into contact with the two repellant creatures, her father Timothy and her stepbrother Jacob.
An improbable romance ensues between Casey and Nate, who proves to a clever investigator, but inept at getting the handcuffs on Jacob when he has the chance. It stretched credibility as well that Casey and Nate would be the only super sleuths tracking Jacob at a time when the police were trying to figure out who is the serial killer on the loose.
Despite the lapses in the screenplay, the film was crisply directed with good seasonal footage to convey the bleak, snowy landscape experienced by the mother-and-daughter team of "Winter Ladies." There was also gritty photography in the Black Rose Café, where everyone, including the serial killer, seems to hang out.
Born in captivity, Casey is really the central focus of the film. Her single-minded pursuit of her mother and her captor finally leads to a sense of closure. Casey now sets her sights on study abroad in Italy. Perhaps she can even persuade Nate to tag along, so that they both can finally relax under the Tuscan sun.
When Lena is kidnapped by Jacob while about to give him a shave in her Diva styling salon, the feisty daughter Casey moves into action with a private eye named Nate Bishop, who has been fascinated by their case for years when they went by the named of Jane and Charlotte Marsh. Unfortunately for poor Casey, she is fated to come into contact with the two repellant creatures, her father Timothy and her stepbrother Jacob.
An improbable romance ensues between Casey and Nate, who proves to a clever investigator, but inept at getting the handcuffs on Jacob when he has the chance. It stretched credibility as well that Casey and Nate would be the only super sleuths tracking Jacob at a time when the police were trying to figure out who is the serial killer on the loose.
Despite the lapses in the screenplay, the film was crisply directed with good seasonal footage to convey the bleak, snowy landscape experienced by the mother-and-daughter team of "Winter Ladies." There was also gritty photography in the Black Rose Café, where everyone, including the serial killer, seems to hang out.
Born in captivity, Casey is really the central focus of the film. Her single-minded pursuit of her mother and her captor finally leads to a sense of closure. Casey now sets her sights on study abroad in Italy. Perhaps she can even persuade Nate to tag along, so that they both can finally relax under the Tuscan sun.