The Neighbor in the Window

If this is what a typical United States housewife spends their free time doing (screwing with their neighbors) than no wonder there is mass exodus to get out of the USA. Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler (From the Sopranos) plays Karen Morgan. Karen, her supportive husband Scott (Geoff Gustafson) and their ten year old son just moved into their dream home so that Scott can start his new job and live a good life with his wife and son. Karen and Scott are trying to survive the recent death of their six week old daughter and so moving to a new community is considered part of their healing process.

Karen's new neighbor Lisa Beasley (Jenn Lyon from Claws) shows great empathy towards Karen as both ladies share in the recent loss of a newborn child. But wait, Lisa is not who Karen initially thought she was. Far from it, Lisa is a whack job and pathological liar who does not take kindly to anyone who has good things happen to them such as when Karen decides to go back to work as a realtor in her community.

I can understand that Karen ignores the earliest indicators that something is wrong when Lisa keeps suddenly appearing at her door with a multitude of excuses for being weird, but what Lisa really should be diagnosed with is an antisocial personality disorder and if you ever had a neighbor that strikes you as just weird, then that's the neighbor where "good fences" make the best neighbors.

Our children are our most precious gift, and when our neighbors start screwing with our family then it is time to stop that sociopath behavior immediately. This movie is by no means a dramatic EMMY winner, but it should remind all parents (mom and dads and big brothers and big sisters) to look out for your own family and know the signs that when a neighbor starts interfering with your own families well being than it may be time to keep your distance from your interfering neighbor and as a last resort, move before it is too late.

This isn't an overly familiar Lifetime wacko. A wacko neighbour who shares a backyard starts of friendly then imitating and buying the same things. Then she escalates to framing her etc. The things she does are a mixed bag of creepy but at least different things. Keeps you watching to see how things get resolved and for the wacko motivation. Worth a watch.

This LIFETIME suspense thriller was actually released this year and one of the newer ones with Jamie-Lynn Sigler. You might know her exceptionally well from from the holiday movie "The Christmas Note". In "The Neighbor in the Window," this is Lifetime's newest movie that is actually a real story made into a movie from the book "False Victim" by Kathie Truitt. The movie shows just how much HELL a person can go through when one neighbour invades your space, both figuratively and literally.

The film is about Karen (Sigler) when her and her family relocate to Washington because her husband has a new job and she falls in love with her new home, which is a beautiful house with large, impressive windows, but this new dream life quickly morphs into a nightmare when the looming presence of her neighbor, Lisa (Jenn Lyon), is all that cascades into those large panes of glass and the devil is scorned. Great movie also because it was based on a true story.

That was the brief description from experts at the end of the movie about the different kinds of stalkers and how they behave. That was somewhat interesting. Other than that, it was just another typical Lifetime movie with a typical (meaning, predictable) plot.

Oh, and just to nitpick another review here - "lady's" is possessive, not plural.

I've seen a lot of Lifetime movies. They are hit and miss. "The Neighbor in the Window" is somewhere in the middle. It was an okay watch. It's just that there was nothing that special about it. The cast is fine. They all do a nice job. It's just that material isn't that hot. I don't want to bash this movie because I did kind of like it. It's that I wanted more than I got.