Nowhere to Hide

Sarah is going through her divorce where she has won custody of her son, 2 houses, half a business and a million cash. She is the target of an attempted murder and taken into protective custody of the FBI and she discovers her ex-husband is a leading mobster and her testimony is needed to put him on trial. With her life more in danger than ever she, her son Sam and FBI Agent Kevin Nicholas.

This starts as a pretty standard "woman in peril" TV movie and really stays that way for most of it. The film doesn't have that much excitement and just moves from one location to another with the main strand of the film being the romance between Sarah (Rosanna Arquette) and Kevin (Scott Bakula).

The performances are standard at best. Arquette is quite good as the woman in danger, but some scenes are just terrible - in the first five minutes alone she "plays" piano with her son as they both nod to different beats without seeming to move their arms sideways. Bakula is far too rigid as the FBI agent making it difficult to like his character and it makes the later romance with Arquette seem really unlikely. The standout performance is Max Pomeranc as the child Sam. He was brilliant in Innocent Moves and was good here too, but even he has very little to do.

20 minutes from the end there is a really good twist - I honestly didn't see it coming. And it is devastating - even more so because you don't expect something clever in a film of this standard. Unfortunately, rather than end the film on a bombshell that would have been a great (albeit sad) ending, the film stretches it out for another 20 minutes to get to a very lazy, convenient "happy" ending. This really blows it for me and I would much rather have seen the film end on a really clever twist.

Overall this is a pretty dull TVM. The thriller doesn't work and the romance is unconvincing. The twist is really good but bottles it and gives the TV audience what it wants - a happy ending that doesn't stretch your brain at all.

Oh a vaguely once famous actress in a film where she plays a mother to a child . It`s being shown on BBC 1 at half past midnight , I wonder if ... yup it`s a TVM

You`ve got to hand it to TVM producers , not content on making one mediocre movie , they usually give us two mediocre movies where two themes are mixed together and NOWHERE TO HIDE is no different . The first theme is a woman in danger theme cross pollinated with a woman suffering from the pain of a divorce theme which means we have a scene of the heroine surviving a murder attempt followed by a scene having her son Sam ask why she divorced ? And being a TVM she answers that the reason is " That people change " rather than say something along the lines like " I`m a right slapper " or Your daddy cruises mens public toilets for sex " as does happen in real life divorce cases . And it`s young Sam I feel sorry for , not only are his parents divorced but he`s as thick as two short planks . Actually since he`s so stupid he deserves no sympathy because he`s unaware that a man flushing stuff down a toilet is a drug dealer , unaware that you might die if someone shoots at you , and unaware that I LOVE LUCY is painfully unfunny . If only our own childhoods were so innocent , ah well as Orwell said " Ignorance is strength " . Oh hold on Sam is suddenly an expert on marine life ! Is this character development or poor scripting ? I know what one my money`s on . And strange that Sam the boy genuis hasn`t noticed that if the story is set in 1994 then why do people often wear clothes , drive cars and ride trains from the 1950s ? But as it turns out during a plot twist it`s the mother who`s the dummy . Then there`s a final plot twist that left me feeling like an idiot for watching this

This one's improbable but likeable, and as good or better than most made-for-TV movies, largely thanks to Rosanna Arquette.

There are some nice touches and a sense that everybody was doing their best to make it work.

When the complicated twist was revealed, I looked at my watch and saw the movie had about 10 minutes to run. Like others here, I wondered how the hell are they going to resolve all this? They sorta did, and sorta didn't.

I guess Rosanna Arquette just moved on to the next project and maybe never even saw the final cut of this. Whatever, she delivered a solid, honest performance.

Finally, I know I'm being pedantic, but it was an episode of "The Lucy Show" the kid was watching, not "I Love Lucy".

Well OK, it's a made for TV movie and it was showing on Lifetime Network so with all that aside...I'm just a Bakula fan. I have a Tivo search for Bakula showings and this auto-recorded. Actually, not a bad story at all if you can tolerate the Arquette family and a too-neat wrap it up kind of ending.

I enjoyed most of the movie's progression and I agree with the last comment post that the the kid's character was as oblivious as dry toast. However one can see he wasn't the center point of the movie other than the plot point that she was a perfect mother with total dedication to her only child.

This would have made a fantastic novel if the last five minutes of the movie were stretched out over a few chapters involving a long, drawn out set up. The TVM seems to be edited down to "we've only got five minutes left so wrap this thing up quick". It was a good movie to satisfy my Scott Bakula in a romantic role fix on a slow day.

"Sarah Blake" (Rosanna Arquette) is pending a divorce from her wealthy husband, "Sam Blake" (Max Pomeranc) and in the upcoming settlement she stands to make a fortune. Obviously, her husband doesn't like the settlement and decides to take matters into his own hands. As a result, Sarah is taken into the "protective witness program" in order to escape a contract taken out on her. In charge of defending her is a special agent named "Kevin Nicholas" (Scott Bakula) who goes to great lengths to keep her completely hidden. Anyway, rather than spoil the film for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this is a made-for-television movie that has some good points and some bad points as well. For one thing, it was rather heavy on drama and light on action. But then I suppose it had to be. I liked the surprising twist towards the end but I thought the actual ending was much too abrupt and convenient. Even so, I thought both Scott Bakula and Rosanna Arquette turned in adequate performances and overall the film was somewhat entertaining. All things considered I rate it as average.