The Beacon (2009)

Bryn, a photographer, and Paul Shaw, an astronomer, move to a small, but cozy one bedroom apartment in the Beacon Apartments in Texas to rebuild their lives. Three years ago, on Halloween, Bryn didn't pay enough attention to their son while at a lake near a carnival. Danny subsequently disappeared, presumed drowned.

Bryn tried to commit suicide and Paul sacrificed his career to support her. When they relocated, Bryn's sister, Christina Wade, who befriends the next door neighbor Will "Ty" Tyler. Paul finds a job at the local University and shares his office with the eccentric anthropologist Simon Valencia. As time moves on Bryn begins to have visions and nightmares with a ghostly boy so decides to investigate how he died, and seeks out his father James Nash. Meanwhile Paul helps the decadent actress Vanessa Carver but does not reveal any details about this to his wife.