Imaginary Playmate is a thriller film which debuted on HBO in 2006

2006 in film

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. Dina Meyer

Dina Meyer

Dina Meyer is an American film and television actress, best known for her roles as Dizzy Flores in Starship Troopers and Detective Allison Kerry in the Saw films. She portrayed Mrs. Hong as a recurring guest star on ABC's Scoundrels.-Personal life:Meyer was born in Queens, New York...

, Rick Ravanello

Rick Ravanello

Rick Ravanello is a Canadian actor who has appeared in several television series and movies.One of several brothers, Ravenello was raised in the Trout Brook Road area of Mira, Cape Breton, and graduated from Riverview Rural High School in 1986.-Filmography:-Guest appearances:*In Justice playing...

, Cassandra Sawtell

Cassandra Sawtell

Cassandra Sawtell is a Canadian teen actress, best known for her role as Madison Allen in the 2009 horror miniseries Harper's Island.-Filmography:- Awards/Nominations:-External links:...

, and Pablo Coffey starred.

Plot

Suzanne (Dina Meyer) and her young stepdaughter Molly Driscoll (Cassandra Sawtell) move into a new house, where Molly acquires an imaginary friend

Imaginary friend

Imaginary friends and imaginary companions are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than external physical reality. Imaginary friends are fictional characters created for improvisational role-playing. They...

 named Candace Brewer (Nicole Muñoz). Later, it is revealed that a girl by that name lived in the house about a century earlier. Her mother died during childbirth of her baby sister, Dora. Candace took her baby sister and left her on a church steps so she didn't have to suffer the abuse from her father like she did. When she returned home, her father knew she took the baby and hung Candace on the apple tree in the backyard. Everyone believed 10 year old Candace hung herself so she was buried in the part of the cemetery where sinners were buried, since suicide was considered a sin. The plot centers around whether Candace is indeed imaginary or is a malevolent ghost

Ghost

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...

. Despite Suzanne's effort to evict the ghost out of her new husband's house, Candace still held the threat of making Suzanne's new family shatter. All the while, Suzanne's husband remains unbelieving of all of this.

Cast and characters

• Dina Meyer as Suzanne. The main character.
• Cassandra Sawtell as Molly Driscoll. The second main character.
• Nicole Muñoz as Candace Brewer. The main antagonist of the film.
• Rick Ravanello
  Rick Ravanello
  Rick Ravanello is a Canadian actor who has appeared in several television series and movies.One of several brothers, Ravenello was raised in the Trout Brook Road area of Mira, Cape Breton, and graduated from Riverview Rural High School in 1986.-Filmography:-Guest appearances:*In Justice playing...
  
  as Michael Driscoll. The third main character.
• Nancy Sivak as Dr. Barrett. The woman doctor.
• Kurt Evan as Rob Conelly. The man doctor.
• Bronwen Smith as Julie. A woman.
• Grace Vukovic as Megan. Molly's friend.
• Jim Shepard as Father Phillip. The priest of the church.
• Gil Hayward as Dr. Brewer. The killer and father of Candace Brewer who serves as the film's secondary antagonist.
• Marilyn Vance as Dora. The sister of Candace.
• Rosalynd Roome as Sarah Brewer. The mother of Candace and Dora.