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I recently watched this movie for the first time.

Yet another good movie starring Mena Suvari.

If only police officer in this day and age, were able to be like the Detective in this film, No Surrender.

FULL credit and praise to Mena Suvari. Not only for great acting, but for taking on role in the first place, due to some of the things that happened in her personal life.

I think this storyline should be told and retold as unfortunately there are a LOT of victims (male and female) who are living in fear of predators etc.

Hopefully, seeing this movie will encourage other victims to seek out help.

Amelia Davis (Mena Suvari) writes a newspaper column called Ask Amelia advising her female readers to stand up against their abusers. She starts a blog and is befriended by Jenny Reardon who wrote to her and escaped from an abusive relationship. A year later, she gains some success and is being courted to sell. She is approached by the dashing Carlo Rossi. Detective Hank Wilson tells her that her abusive ex-husband Darryl Devine just got paroled. She is attacked by a mystery masked man.

This is a TV movie that runs like a Lifetime movie. The flow is a little clunky but the story is generally fine although not that original. There is a good mystery with good twists. The production is straight forward TV. Suvari is the only truly compelling actor in the cast. It's a middling affair that I can't quite recommend.

The actors are nice to look at, Mena played the titular American Beauty in American Beauty. But there's a lot in the film that makes little to no sense. Plays at cultural misogyny, not for thinkers but if you like watching pretty people get it on, you'll love it.

I can always tell when a movie is made by lifetime. Simply by their consistency with story plots (not necessarily a good thing), actors, twists, and ratings.

Rating for Lifetime movies are very frequently rated between 4 and 6, which is actually decent if you are a true movie fan, but with the consistency comes alot of repetition, and common foreshadowing thaat makes the movies just plain predictable but watchable.

I like Mena which is why I chose to watch this film. I enjoyed it, you probably will as well. Only -ve is her side kick "Gummy".