Adaption of the famous Oscar Wilde tale about a young American girl (Neve Campbell) that helps a British ghost (Patrick Stewart) find rest and forgiveness.What fool cast Neve Campbell alongside Patrick Stewart? Stewart, despite being best known for his role on "Star Trek", is a great actor with a love of Shakespeare and the classics. Campbell is a disposable actress who has no range of emotion and is doomed to appear in countless sequels to "Scream".The story is good, the effects are good... the dad is more than adequately made out to be a jerk (almost too much, really... being a physicist does not mean you need to be a heartless father with no sense of imagination). I suppose this could have been worse.

Truly entertaining film for all the family. Based on the great Oscar Wilde's stories.A typical family composed of two young brat boys, a hot teen girl, and father and mother move to a castle because in the words of the father, it's cheap to live there.Neve Campbell's character is not very happy with the decision to move there because she's dealing with the pains of growing up. Suddenly after they install themselves in the castle's bedrooms, Neve starts to feel a strange vibe and even cannot explain some paranormal events.That's when she becomes friends with the Canterville Ghost played brilliantly by Patrick Stewart who is a very good actor.The chemistry between Campbell and Stewart is intense and enjoyable. It's more of a tender relationship.The movie has the typical t.v. vibe for these kind of movies. The direction is very basic and so are the effects.The art direction is truly good and that's what makes difference.Watch it only if you want to teach your kids or young relatives about Wilde's work.

I watched this movie by accident on TV and it was so unbelievably awful I could not switch it off. Every single piece of wit and intelligence has been removed from the Oscar Wilde story by the inept screenplay writer. It barely matters because the dire acting, clichéd camera-work and cloying music would have ruined anything resembling like a decent script anyway. The worst performance comes from Patrick Stewart who comes across as the most hammy, talentless, minor mock-Shakespearean nincompoop as the ghost. "Get thee out of here!" he screams at one stage while waving his arms like a pantomime villain. A truly terrible film and why wonders why Stewart, who can act when called upon to do so, has soiled his reputation by making worthless pieces of crap like this and the XMen.

as yet. She is congenially to Patrick Steward in this made-for-TV movie, which might have had a good chance on the big screen too.As in so many hollywood movies the film would have been better off without the last sequence.