Deadly Secrets by the Lake

Take anything you like about a Lifetime movie and throw it out the window. Then you have this move. Over complicated, too many characters, and insanely boring.

There is a reason LMN doesn't often produce movies. This is an excellent case for it NEVER to happen again. Yikes.

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In the lakeside town of Thornwood Heights, it's the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of Abby Blake which still haunts members of the community. NYPD Police detective Jennifer Riley (Stefanie von Pfetten) catches her suspect trying kidnapped another girl. She gets a call from her troubled sister Lauren Riley from jail. Lauren has been arrested for murder of Victor who has been researching Abby's case. Jennifer was Abby's best friend and has not returned home since being implicated in her disappearance.

It's a Lifetime Harlequin mystery and expectations are low. So it's good to clear the very low bar. It's actually a functional mystery. It would be nice if there are better twists and turns but beggars can't be choosers. von Pfetten is functional as this hardened lead character. It's obvious that the plot should be solving the Abby mystery which leads to Victor's killer. This movie doesn't do that and I wonder if this is the first of a series of stories. It doesn't look like it and that's a headscratcher.

A thriller which kept me hooked and concerned till the end. No pumped up music, beautiful locatlons, an underbelly of anger that seems to inhabit this picturesque lakeside town, a murder and a potential villian really keeps the ball rolling The end is unexpected but is truthful tk the story I felt. The whole film seemed liked spiced up modern version of Murder she wrote. Enjoyable

We really enjoyed this movie. Stefanie was amazingly good and totally believable in the lead role. She held it all together. The twists and turns kept our interest.

The reason it is not a ten is the lame way they handled the ending. A good cliffhanger and lead in to a sequel and then....go to the website and find you have to buy a book to get the ending.

WE WANT A SEQUEL AND WE WANT STEFANIE VON PFETTEN IN THE LEAD!

A NY detective returns to her hometown after 20 years, to help her sister who is accused of murder. The plot was certainly what won me over, combined with good story progression and good cinematography, it never gave me the chance to get bored. As far as acting goes, we get a solid performance out of the protagonist and two more characters, but after that we sink in mediocrity. Which doesn't really matter, since our main focus is the detective. The background melody wasn't always ideal and some scenes could have been avoided. (unless they were used to support the sequel if there is one)

Deadly secrets by the lake was worth watching, visiting their site was fun, I hope a sequel is on the way. Overall score 6.5/10