The Tender Trap

Don't expect a brilliantly written review since English was only the fifth foreign language I learned. Yet, that doesn't influence my ability to recognise a film that even the most mediocre Slovakian TV channel would refuse to bore its viewers with. I wrote a couple of school plays and I won a short story contest. Nothing memorable. Eventually I became a banker. Still, I'm convinced I'd write a far better screenplay than whoever got the task to hastily put something on paper resulting in this superfluous, utterly banal, and predictable... film. I can best describe The Tender Trap as an unsurprising textbook example of a textbook film.

The best thing about this film is how inevitable it makes an act that looks remarkably stupid, even unbelievable, seem. Also, that it is in uncompromising in showing its protagonist as she very likely is in real life (based on a real story) and what becomes very like an addiction as time moves on. Much of this is like watching someone slowly get hooked on a physical drug. The dismaying revelation of what many viewers will already suspect but not visualize with such sickening clarity comes just at the right point. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem many will see this film, so the numerous potential victims of what we see presented here will still proceed like lambs to the slaughter - a progress expertly shown here.

I have read about this lady and her experience. I would love to see the movie. She has gone through so much. She also appears to come out of it as a strong person with messages and advice for others.

I have tried to order the book but haven't been able to find it. I agree these people who scam others can be found everywhere and online it is made easy for them specially with venerable people who have lost their spouses and other partners. And I think Sharon's story points that out. Her teaching and lectures are good and warn others not to fall into a scam like this. I'm in Canada but I can seem to find this movie anywhere there.