Tale of a Super Agent

Thoughtcrimes

(Made-for-TV ~ 2003)

Could someone, on any given day, just like that turn nuts? That's what happens to Freya McAllister (played by Navi Rawat) in Thoughtcrimes. During a slow dance at her high school prom she suddenly begins to hear voices in her head. And so began six years living in complete hell. Stuck inside a modern day American insane asylum, seemingly no one could help her. No drug helped. But one day she found relief in reading. Finally the voices stopped. Still she couldn't just leave to properly function on her own in society.

Along comes a government doctor (thirtysomething's Peter Horton) who swoops her up and takes her away, kidnapped in a sense, but taken in order to help her... in order to help America.

It's an interesting story. Apparently this was made with the hope that it would become a series for the USA Network (which didn't happen.) Since the production was on the small screen, rather than having a Hollyweird budget with bigger names attached, it suffered from potentially being a more exciting and intriguing production. It really could have achieved that. Not all Made-for-TV movies have that potential but this did. Still it wasn't bad. We really get to see the transformation of the star, from confident soon-to-be high school graduate to someone with virtually no ability to sanely function then back again to a one-of-a-kind, very important government employee helping save her country from the post-9/11 terrorists who want to bring us down.

Not a bad TV movie and surely worth 90 minutes + popcorn.