8/10
The Ghost of Toby Miller
2 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There was an especially ghoulish scene that set the tone for this thriller. A party is given for Dr. Hope Collins. A cake is brought on. And the song for the occasion is "Happy Death Day" to memorialize the demise of the stalker Toby Miller who traumatized Dr. Collins.

Dr. Collins took the Hippocratic oath, yet, in a lugubrious moment, she watched Toby Miller die of cardiac arrest with no intervention. Will there be karma for the good doctor when she violated her oath?

There was an offbeat quality to the narrative that depicts the return of Toby or a copycat to continue stalking Dr. Collins. Her daughter Danielle believes that it may be Toby's ghost returned from the grave. Indeed, the grave of Toby Miller is exhumed in the course of the film, and the coffin is empty!

There were numerous suspects in this case, and Dr. Collins perhaps unwisely confronts each one of them personally. Her best friend and fellow doctor Nadine is taken to task. The kind personal assistant Mary LaRoux is under suspicion. Dr. Collins's unemployed husband Evan is a suspect. Even the daughter Danielle is confronted.

The fine ensemble cast hit all the right notes in this quirky film. And there were some genuine moments of suspense in a well-scripted, well-directed, and eminently watchable film.
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