Come Along With Me (1982)

After her husband dies, an eccentric widow (Estelle Parsons) sells her house and moves to a new city and adopts a new identity. Once established at a rooming house, she decides to use her psychic talent by giving a seance! Based on an unfinished novel by Shirley Jackson (THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE) and directed by actress Joanne Woodward. This mischievous bit of whimsy is fitfully amusing in bits and pieces but those bits and pieces never come together which leaves this production (originally made for PBS) rather jerky in its execution. Estelle Parsons is fine although we're almost always aware of how (too) hard she is trying to be quirky. And why all the cookie eating? It's not as bad as gum chewing but it's an annoying device. With Sylvia Sidney and Barbara Baxley.