Heather Graham shows her stuff in this girl-meets-boy thriller.

Graham plays Alice, a normal person with an every-day job and a regular-old life, who encounters Adam (Joseph Fiennes, remember him Shakespeare from Shakespeare In Love), local mountain-climber turned hero, and quickly turns her life upside-down and enters a relationship full of heat and paranoia. Within movie-time days they're married, and she begins receiving wicked little "be careful" notes causing her to become suspect of the past of her new husband.

A well-played set of intrigue as the film follows Alice, and ignores the other characters out side of her experiences. If she's not there, we're not there. A method I enjoy in dramas and thrillers. Keeps us as ill-informed as the character we mimic.

This film is a little explicit at times. Following a tone not far from Shakespeare in Love, the sex is right in front of us. It might have been a touch more than necessary to tell the story, but I guess I didn't really mind until the teen-aged daughter decided to sit in for a few minutes.

The film skips the mundane, providing what is necessary to remind us these are "ordinary" people. There's not a lot of fantastic twists or gaps. There's a moment or two of dialogue that seems to skip; perhaps a deleted scene? A couple of times we go from something calm into something frantic, and I found myself asking what the trigger might have been? Did she hear a phrase or see a look?

With the notes Alice receives, and begins secreting from Adam, her concern begins to turn into fear, and her paranoia grows. Her paranoia paired with his heretofore secret past lead him to believe she's found someone else; that is how he found her. Their combined paranoia mix well into a relationship filled with failing trust and fear, but tilted a little with their still fresh passion.

No spoiler here.

Of course, the thrilling twist at the end is one of the many we tried to figure out during the film. Is Alice nuts? Did Adam do it, or something like it? It's gotta be the sketchy friend. Maybe it's his slightly weird sister? Yeah something like that.

Thumbs up from me. Go ahead and watch it.