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Who gets up one day and thinks 'you know what, I'm going to make a really bad film with wooden acting and incidental music so loud that you can't hear the actors speak?' Clearly that's what the director of The Wrong Husband, Ben Meyerson, thought; and boy did he delivered. You'd think when they check the film before releasing it someone would've said 'I think the mood music is too loud.' But no, that's how it was released. Then there's the tree-like acting. So wooden it's probably a fire hazard on hot days. The lead actress, Charlotte Graham, does a semi-decent job of playing her part, but the rest of the cast appear to have taken acting lessons from Pinocchio. Maybe the director's nickname is Geppetto? I managed to watch 18 minutes before I decided to go to the dentist for a root canal procedure that I suddenly decided I needed.

AVOID THIS FILM.

Not knowing your husband has a twin is one thing...you won't know unless he tells you. However, not noticing something is "off" about your husband's body during sex is ridiculous. There's another Lifetime movie called My Sister's Secret (or A Sister's Secret) where a husband does not realize his "wife" is the twin, and they pull a similar thing by saying the couple was going through problems and he could "see" a change in his wife (after they sleep together).

I grew up knowing several sets of twins (at least three or four, both kids and adults). The longer you are around them, the more you'll learn their differences. Even when they seem to be identical. They are different people. I realize for the movie to work, she can't "know" right away, but they wasted no time having them sleep together when "Derrick" returned home so they knew what they were doing. Shouldn't she have an eerie/icky feeling she can't understand? I can't imagine it being as simple as "wow, he's trying new things." I know most people's default is not "omg this isn't you, it must be a twin," and we the audience have the benefit of knowing, but the deception is just not always believable. I also don't know why this would be a secret even if the brothers were estranged. There's another twin movie (I also reviewed it) where keeping it a secret worked against the "good" twin. If your brother hates you, wouldn't you want your wife to know...just in case? She still would have no reason to believe it was the brother. It also is a pretty huge secret to keep from your wife.

There's nothing new here, and it's pretty predictable. I was prompted to write this review because I recorded it this week and realized I'd seen it before. It's not the worst, but there are better "twin" stories on the network. There's also a 90s movie with twin brothers that this probably draws from who's name escapes me. It's going to bug me that I can't remember the title.

The plot of this movie was bizarre. Really kind of unbelievable- too many wild things. The writers and director thought that we would believe Melanie could crawl into bed with a fake Derrick and not know he was a fake? C'mon, all the parts might be identical but it just couldn't happen that way. However, the movie held our attention better that several of the ones we have seen lately. And Charlotte Graham did a great job with the part of the fooled wife, although she took a ride on the clue bus a lot earlier than most LMN women do. Movie on its own would have been a 5- add two stars for Ms. Graham!

A line from this film which sums up its major flaw.

The evil twin is not an orginal concept, just the manner in which the plot is executed. In this case, not bad and on the whole, well acted albeit but best not to try and scrutinise the storyline too deeply!

It's epic fail for me was the awful fake "Mockney" accent - for the stereotypical English villain. Unfortunately nobody living in England has ever had such an accent. It's very distracting and really pointless, ultimately ruining what would have been a watchable film.

Probably best viewed with sound muted and subtitles on.

As well as what one contrbutor said about twins not being able to told apart being far-fetched or something in those lines which I totally agree I would hasten to add the audio was crap! Good job there was CC otherwise I wouldn't have understood most of the dialogue!