Peter Goodman

Seeing Sally (Trailer)

Sally Morgan, a middle-aged working-class British woman, comes to New York City to seek her fame and fortune - as a PSYCHIC. She needs the money to provide for her large family. She needs the fame to prove to everyone including herself that she is the real deal, a genuine clairvoyant. Is she or isn't she? Sometimes she wows us with her eerie accuracy, and sometimes she stuns us with her dead-on inaccuracy. Will she pass the rigorous scientific test administered by Harvard and Yale educated Dr. Gary Schwartz? Regardless of the outcome, Sally shows us that a big heart and a good sense of humor are important for dealing with life, but essential for dealing with the after life. (Written by Peter Goodman)

 

 

I like psychics. I like them because they look into my problems and connect them to something larger than myself. Essentially, they make me feel like nothing's my fault. They're like therapists without all the money or the angst. The good ones. As Psychic Sally from Peter Goodman's new documentary says herself, "There's a call for good psychics...a need for them in society today." And Sally's good. In the space of little more than an hour, she discovered an affair, nearly solved a murder, spoke to the ghost of Princess Diana, and facilitated multiple conversations between living and dead. But, oddly enough, Sally's psychic work was not the most interesting part of the film. It's Sally herself who wins the hearts of viewers as she struggles to make it in America. With a mortgage and a family to support, she relies on her psychic skills to pay the bills. Her husband says "I'm the one who's making sure that when Sally finishes work, her dinner's ready and the house is in order." To do her work, Sally depends on both the mainstream and the margins at once. And so, we at sub-scribe, are starry eyed for Psychic Sally. Why show a trailer instead of the whole movie? Right now, that's all Sally's putting into the universe. How utterly sub-versive. Coming soon to Netflicks. Put it in your cue. Sally will know if you don't.

Lois Kent