Secretos en el desván

The first time I seen the movie, I Missed the first half leaving me wanting to see the rest. Luckily I found it on YouTube. After watching it all the way through I'm really wanting this movie on DVD. Its different from the other movies I've been seeing. Great mix of Drama,action, thriller etc. It had a great choice of characters. I could watch this movie over and over. I noticed in other comments people said that the daughter looked older than the mother, I really didn't see it. However, I bowl with this Mother and daughter that both look like teenagers so it really didn't bother me much. It could be a rare thing where the mother just isn't showing her actual age in the movie.

The teenager, Callie (Addie Cobb) look older than her mother, Rachel (Gina Holden).Then I found out why...Addie is 31 and Rachel is 40.The Director must have had blinders on because Addie does not look like a teenager, as a matter of fact, she look older than Rachel. Addie is a pretty lady and I tried to enjoy the movie, but trying to overlook Callie (Addie) as a teenager was very distracting. I hope she accept more adult roles next time because she is a good actress. But I did eventually overlooked it and enjoyed the movie. I would have rated this movie higher if there was more twist and turns in the movie, but it was enjoyable. I did enjoyed the role of the mother, so that is a plus.

Abbie Cobb was 30 when the movie was filmed. Reminds me of Luke Perry, Gabrielle Carteris and Ian Zering playing teens on Beverly Hills, 90210 when they were already past 30.

Peyton List (the Disney Channel starlet) would have been perfect, considering she WAS 17 when the movie was filmed. A 20-something actress, and there are many of them starring in Lifetime movies, would have been more plausible.

The movie is pretty good, by the way.

Reel One, the author of the synopsis here, is incorrect. I'm not sure whether this was a mistake or fabricated intentionally as a joke. There's no pregnant teen, love child or child support involved.

The glaringly absent age disparity between mother and daughter was distracting at times. The actresses are only 10 years apart in age, and it's evident on screen. If Lifetime could've garnered Jennie Garth for the mother role it would have been great since it would make the age disparity a bit more clear, plus Abbie Cobb is known to audiences as Garth's junior doppleganger.

The boy Micheal, played by the handsome newcomer Max Lloyd-Jones, delivers what is arguably the best performance of the piece and provides us with eyecandy.

Remember, it's a Lifetime TV movie, so no one's aiming for the SAG awards. It must be enjoyed for simply what it is - the viewing equivalent of a dime-store novella. There are some inconsistencies, such as an explanation for the boys preference to enter and exit the home through its main door when there's a door from the attic leading outside. The "boy in the attic" indicates (both in appearance and in script) that he's 18+, so he's really the "man in the attic". I guess having a man hiding in the attic didn't quite hold the same appeal.

Fairly decent entertainment for lazy viewers who aren't hungry to critique a film.

While the credits roll, police discover a dead man in an old mansion. Two months later, the setting switches to Chehalis, Washington, which we're told is 200 miles from Coburg. You needn't bother to jot down that particular fact. A pair of women drive into the small town. These two are mother Gina Holden (as Rachel Davis) and her mature-looking blonde daughter Abbie Cobb (as Callie). They've inherited an elegant-looking mansion. Even nicer, for daughter Cobb, there is a handsome young man living in the attic. As it turns out, blond "Boy in the Attic" Max Lloyd-Jones (as Michael Collins) knew Cobb's grandmother and decided to stick around after the old woman died. Even luckier for Cobb, another handsome young man, Iain Belcher (as Jordan), is her new neighbor. Her cup runneth over...

Cobb opts for the attic "boy" and gets into trouble as secrets unravel...

This story unraveled even earlier, during casting. Producers favor casting juvenile performers who are too old for their parts. In the theater, this didn't matter much because people sit apart from the actors and there are no close-ups. For film and TV, parts need to be cast closer to age. There are exceptions, of course, but "Boy in the Attic" isn't one of them. A short adult could play a young child for some time, especially while possessing a youthful look. You give a pass to Mr. Lloyd-Jones playing a "boy" herein because people are calling young men and women "boys" and "girls" more often and he isn't that far off. However, the age discrepancy between Cobb and Holden is simply too distracting. The younger woman is way too mature for her part and the older actress looks far too young for her role.

** Boy in the Attic (8/1/2016) Paul Shapiro ~ Abbie Cobb, Max Lloyd-Jones, Gina Holden, Iain Belcher