Irresistible

Irresistible is a 2006 Australian mystery drama film written and directed by Ann Turner and starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, and Emily Blunt. Sophie is an American book illustrator and her family is disrupted by her husband's new co-worker, Mara. Sophie is made to look crazy by the activities of Mara. Plot Sophie Hartley is a happily married book illustrator with two young daughters, Ruby and Elly. One afternoon while walking home from school, she suddenly remembers she forgot to turn the iron off and rushes home. When she gets there, she finds the iron still hot but switched off. Later, she senses someone in the house but shrugs it off. Sophie attends a party with her husband Craig and meets his new co-worker, Mara. They go for a walk along the beach, where Mara offers Sophie sympathy for her mother's recent passing, telling her she lost her best friend Kate who had been an aid worker looking after orphans in Kosovo. She tells Sophie that someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the orphanage, and Kate burned to death trying to save the babies. Over the weeks that follow, certain items appear to go missing from the house including one of Sophie's dresses and Elly's favourite toy. Sophie also finds one of her paintings destroyed but assumes the cat knocked over an inkwell, and she is later attacked by a swarm of wasps that appear out of an ornament in her studio. After seeing Mara wearing the missing dress, she comes to suspect that Mara is breaking into the house. She breaks into Mara's to collect proof, but gets caught and is given a restraining order. Craig does not back up Sophie in court.