Drip, drip, ewwwww. Ever face mold, mildew and a huge leak that takes over your ceiling? Jennifer Connelly wishes that was all she had to face in the creepy Dark Water.

Jennifer Connelly in Dark Water Credit: Touchstone Pictures

In this re-imagining of a 2002 Japanese horror flick, Jennifer Connelly plays Dahlia, a fragile woman divorcing her nasty and unfaithful husband Kyle (Dougray Scott) who played around on her and now wants full custody of their 5-year-old daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade). Unable to afford a nice place on her own, Dahlia moves to New York's isolated Roosevelt Island, a cold, dank, semi-abandoned place full of identical, minimalist apartment houses that haven't been kept up since the 1970's. Oh yeah, and it rains there like it was Seattle! The place is peopled by off-beat, eccentrics. To fight for custody, Dahlia hires sympathetic lawyer Platzer (Tim Roth) who is as messed up as she is. He pretends to have a family and an office while he works out of his cab.

Creepy Water Credit: Touchstone Pictures

Dahlia has problems getting the building super (Pete Postlethwaite) and rental agent Mr. Murray (John C. Reilly) to fix an ugly black leak in her ceiling. Little Ceci starts having conversations with an imaginary friend named Natasha while other water-related horrors keep driving Dahlia and even Ceci to the edge. Dahlia's memories of an abusive mother and a less-than perfect childhood haunt her dreams at night and by day, it's even creepier. Are some of these things orchestrated by Dahlia's evil hubby so that he can have her declared nuts and get custody of Ceci or are they caused by the local teen vandals or by ghosts?