Die Abrechnung - Eine Tochter kehrt heim

I recently watched The Stepdaughter (2000) on Tubi. The story follows a troubled, orphaned young woman who resents never having a real family or a happy childhood. Fueled by a desire for revenge, she takes a job as a stable hand on a farm-where she may have found the perfect family to target, for more reasons than one.

Directed by Peter Liapis (Ghoulies), the film stars Andrea Roth (War), Lisa Dean Ryan (Doogie Howser, M. D.), Jaimz Woolvett (Unforgiven), and Cindy Pickett (Ferris Bueller's Day Off).

This feels like a made-for-TV movie in every possible way. The storyline is overly simplistic and far too convenient from start to finish. The acting and dialogue are painfully stiff, making every plot twist glaringly obvious. Nothing about the film feels authentic or realistic, and even the background music plays more like a soap opera than a thriller.

In conclusion, The Stepdaughter is awful. I'd rate it a 1/10 and recommend skipping it.

A lot of these direct-to-video movies aren't always the greatest, because they obviously couldn't even make it to the theater. I have no clue why this wasn't in theaters. It wasn't all that bad. Andrea Roth and Lisa Dean Ryan were rather good, and the story was really great. I recommend this movie. I give The Stepdaughter a 7 out of 10. :)

This film generates a lot of hate but it's not so bad. It is teribly format and there are so many ananswered qudestions and loose ends but ... it's a made-for-tv movie that has to rein in the blood and gore and doesn't care about things making sense, For example, Susan does say something about her stepfather (not much) but because of the very limited backstory we don't really get why the film called The Stepdaughter. The way she answers questions it's as if she's trying to get caught in lies. But... Andrea Roth is extremly dishy and it's nice to see her runnning around and the ranch setting is really beautiful, so it's not too bad a ride at all.

I'd never seen this before. And man was I shocked to see Tommy Gavin's wife Janet and super wow Buck Rogers is in it too!

This way over predictable schlock is really remindful of a Hallmark Channel movie. I mean it is really pretty bad.

The general gist of course is the silly stepdaughter becomes a creepy killer because of whatever background she had as if that's some sort of excuse. In the tradition of the Stepfather series of movies which were also fairly bad.

The movie is full of overused cliches and dumb characters. And the end was really bad and dumb. But at least there were closing words from Buck Rogers.

3/10.

The Stepdaughter? After watching this I am left wondering why it was even called that? Was there even a stepdaughter in it? Was Susan/Karen someone's stepdaughter?

But, on to the movie itself. It was interesting enough to keep you watching and wondering a little, but most of the time I spent groaning and rolling my eyes at the various plot holes and silliness. At times it is amazingly predictable, other times mildly suspenseful, but most times only slightly entertaining. My favorite cliches include the little "idiot" boy saving the day, the bumbling lawman, the good-looking big stud farm hand trying to force himself on her, and "I'm so crazy I talk to my doll". Then after all the buildup and clues start coming together... the payoff is very weak I felt.

I don't want to be all negative about any film, so I'll say that Andrea Roth does a good job as does Lisa Dean Ryan I thought. At least for what they had to work with.

4/10