The Watch is a 2008 made for TV movie starring Clea DuVall

Clea DuVall

Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sofie on the television series Carnivàle as well as for films such as The Faculty , Girl, Interrupted and The Grudge .-Early life:DuVall was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Rosemary and...

, James A. Woods

James A. Woods

James A. Woods is a Canadian actor. He trained at New York City's Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute before returning to his native Montreal to pursue an acting career. Woods starred in Hatley High, distributed in Canada by Seville Films and winner of Best Director and Best Screenplay awards...

, and Elizabeth Whitmere

Elizabeth Whitmere

Elizabeth Whitmere is a Canadian actress working in the United States and Canada. Born and raised in northern Canada, she draws on her experiences there, in the Maritimes, in Montreal, and in Massachusetts in the development of her characters and her stand-up comedy routines.Whitmere appeared in...

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Plot

The movie opens with 7 year old Cassie in her bed sleeping. She wakes up hearing a scary noise and sees something at her closet and goes to investigate. When she sees nothing she closes the door only to turn around to see a woman dressed in white holding a teddy bear. Cassie is drugged and kidnapped. When she wakes up she is in a dark basement. She screams for help for two days, but no one comes. Finally 2 days later the police arrive arrest the woman and free Cassie. The movie then flicks to 20 years later, Cassie is now attending graduate school. When she fails to hand in her thesis on time, her professor warns her she only has a month to finish it, so she takes a job as a fire look-out, a job she hopes will give her nothing else to do except finish the thesis. However, the isolation preys on her and when she discovers that her only human contact, a voice on the radio, is apparently a dead girl, she wants out. Meanwhile her best friend starts to figure that someone is using Cassie's psychological profile against her...

Production

The film was directed by Jim Donovan

Jim Donovan

Jim Donovan may refer to:*Jim Donovan , former NBC television sportscaster and sports director at WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio*Jim Donovan , former CNBC television reporter and consumer reporter at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

 and produced by Matt LeBlanc

Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc is an American actor, best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani on the NBC sitcoms Friends and its spin-off Joey....

 . The movie was released in March, 2008 on the Lifetime Movie Network

Lifetime Movie Network

Lifetime Movie Network is a cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A&E Television Networks, LLC. A&E Television Networks is a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBCUniversal. LMN offers women-oriented movies...

. It was written by Ben Ripley

Ben Ripley

Ben Ripley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the science-fiction thriller Source Code directed by Duncan Jones. Ripley is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Southern California's USC School of Cinema-Television....

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