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Annie and ralf savage are just a normal couple going about their daily lives but they are also in the market for a new home. They meet a realator named megan who seems nice enough and shows them around. She seems to be a bit too friendly with ralf and she seems more than happy to get the couple the house as quick as possible/ the actress playing megan was pretty good overall. Like with these films it builds up to the ending and we see an almost decent into madness as megan thrusts herself into their lives. Overall decent but it cant get past the hurdles that is clearly has but never the less still good.

This was an LMN movie with a difference. Everything was pretty perfect. The story the acting etc. at around 48 minutes I guessed (correctly) the plot! One thing that annoyed me was Ralph who kept taking everything lightly like as if he was stoned or something! Katie Burson was brilliant! Overall I wnjoyed it!

RUTHLESS REALTOR (TV movie 2020) 4 out of 10 stars Time to Read: 4 min

BASIC PLOT: Annie and Ralph Savage (Lily Anne Harrison & Brian Ames) are looking for a change of scenery. They've been living in a condo in the city, to be near Annie's job as an attorney. But Ralph is a nature photographer, and the city doesn't offer a lot to his chosen profession. They've also been trying for a baby, and know they'll need a bigger place soon, so when they happen upon the perfect house, they think it's fate.

The house is in a remote location, with several acres of wilderness around it. It's the perfect setting to raise a family, and even offers a basement, with a built in darkroom, for Ralph's job.

However, there are a few stumbling blocks to overcome before they can make the house theirs. Meg Atkins (Christie Burson), the realtor is kind of quirky, but she seems competent enough, even though her behavior is a bit odd.

Meg says there's someone else who's also interested in the house, a pharmacy heiress named Lynette Dee (Alexandra Peters). Meg says not to worry though, she'll make sure the Savage's get their dream home.

Meg keeps her promise, but after they close on the house, Meg keeps coming around. She seems to have some boundary issues, and maybe even a mental health problem or two. Ralph is more forgiving of her eccentricities, but Annie cannot tolerate Meg, due to her own insecurities.

What's worse, there's been a prowler sneaking around the house. Annie is convinced it's Meg, but she's forgetting what Meg told them when they bought the house. She warned them two previous owners had disappeared, without a trace. They just left all their belongings behind, and evaporated into thin air.

Can Annie quit being self-righteous for five seconds, and figure out what's going on? Or will her petty jealousies, and inferiority complex prevent her from discovering what's really going on in her own house?

WHAT WORKS: *CHRISTIE BURSON IS GREAT AS THE QUIRKY RELATOR Christie Burson couldn't have been cast better. She is perfect as Meg Atkins, strange ranger extraordinar, with a bubbly, but confounding personality.

*BRIAN AMES DOES HIS USUAL GOOD JOB AS THE "GOOD GUY" Brian Ames is always a pleasure to watch, and it's the same here. You believe he's the sweet husband, anchored to a priggish shrew, and you hurt for him. He always plays his melodramatic roles to perfection.

WHAT DOESN'T WORK: *PRETTY FLIMSY PRETEXT AS TO HOW THEY FIND THE HOUSE Ralph is out at a house, in the middle of the desert, taking pictures of the flowers growing in the house's garden (terrible pictures BTW). He doesn't know the people who own the house, there's no explanation as to how they found this 'out of the way' house. And the fact that he's technically trespassing on the property to take his pictures, is never addressed. But because they happen to be here, Ralph sees the realtor putting up for sale signs. Yeah right.

*WHY IS RALPH POURING ANNIE A GLASS OF WINE, AFTER HE KNOWS SHE'S PREGNANT? Twice in this movie, Annie is drinking while pregnant, what a selfish piece of ____.

*WOMEN ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GET MAD AT MEN FOR THINGS THEY WON'T DO THEMSELVES Annie gets mad at Ralph for not kicking the busy body realtor out, but SHE DOESN'T DO IT EITHER! Don't get mad at your husband, when it's something you wouldn't do yourself!

*WOMEN WHO ARE SO WEAK THEY DON'T ALLOW THEIR HUSBAND'S TO HAVE FRIENDS shouldn't be allowed to get married in the first place (and shouldn't be cast as protagonists in melodramas either). Annie's problem isn't Meg, the quirky realtor, it's the fact that Annie's insecure and jealous. These behaviors make Annie very unlikable, and that's never a good thing in your protagonist.

*IF RALPH'S A WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER, WHY DOES HE HAVE A STUDIO? He already told Meg he doesn't do headshots, so why is he set up for them in the basement? Better to have him be a well rounded photographer, instead of just a nature photographer, then this plotline would make sense.

*WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE LYNETTE WORKS IN A PHARMACY? Because her "pharmacy" looks like a storeroom that somebody put a few cotton balls in, and a few boxes of bandaids. It does NOT look like a business, more like someone's closet. Also, most people who inherit a chain of pharmacies, don't work in them. Just sayin'.

*ALEXANDRA PETERS CAN'T ACT Alexandra Peters who plays Lynette Dee Bernard, can't act her way out of a paper bag.

*IF I HAVE 20 REVIEWS THAT HAVE THE SAME CRITIQUE, THERE'S A PROBLEM, but I do, and here we go again. All writers need to stop using stupid, or ill informed police, as a plot devices. In this film, the cops say Meg didn't break any laws by being on the Savage's back porch, in the middle of the night. Yes she did! She had been warned to stay away, and had been forcibly removed from Annie's work. She also sent (presumably) threatening texts to Annie, which were forwarded to police. At the least, this would be harassment, more likely, harassment and trespassing. Annie is a lawyer, and would know this, the police would know this, and I'm freaking sick of seeing the police written as impotent and retarded in TV movies. (The police would file a report so the repeated harassment would be documented for a restraining order.)

*ANNIE GOES ON AND ON ABOUT HOW SHE'S NOT SCARED OF MEG, but then runs screaming from her, and wants to go live in a hotel. Ummm yeah... (more behavior making her unlikable, like saying to Ralph, "If we die, it's your fault.", or blaming him for power outages) Also, they talk about getting a gun, but never a security system, which would be better for these weaklings anyway.

*WHY WOULD ANNIE THINK LYNETTE WOULD KNOW ABOUT MEG'S PAST? Annie invites Lynette over to ask about Meg's past, but why would Annie think Lynette would know? How much background do you know about a realtor you've used?

*RALPH AND ANNIE HAVE NO CHEMISTRY It's probably because Annie is a huge b*tch, and Ralph is a nice guy. I kept asking myself, "Why would Ralph, a sweetheart, be with this selfish, ugly, jealous shrew?" I still don't know the answer! But I do know, when I like Meg, the crazy realtor, more than the pregnant protagonist - when I'm actually praying someone kills Annie, and frees Ralph from his martial prison - the writing is a FAIL!

*WHY DID THE WRITER OF THIS MONSTROSITY, HIDE HIS IDENTITY? There was no IMDb entry for the writer of this film until I created it, which means it's an alias. Steven S. Toledo is a pseudonym. Why? If you're ashamed of your writing, make it better! Don't hide behind pen names, and leave yourself off the credits!

*NOTHING MEG'S DONE SHOWS SHE'S A PSYCHOPATH OR A SOCIOPATH, but Annie continues to call her that, saying she's going to put her away for life (with what? She's got nothing on Meg). She arrogantly boasts to poor Ralph about how she "took Meg down", and priggishly brags about defeating this mentally ill woman, who spent time in a crazy hospital. Wow! Just wow. The writers want me to root for Annie!? Really?! I hope she's murdered so she can't propagate.

*MEG, BEING THE SAME REALTOR EVERY TIME THIS HOUSE IS SOLD, IS NOT UNUSUAL. Realtors tend to work in the same area, and if your liked the realtor you bought your house from, you'd use her when you were ready to sell. But the pompous Annie tries to twist this fact into something nefarious, give me a break!

*INSTEAD OF USING CRYPTIC LIGHT FLASHES AS SIGNALS FROM OFFICER MILLER, why not just have him text you with updates? Also, why give a character a backstory, and a family, 5 seconds before you kill him? That just p*sses your audience off.

*IF THE PARENTS HAD A WILL AND A TRUST, WHY WOULD THEIR HOUSE HAVE GONE INTO FORECLOSURE? More loose ends that don't make any sense. If Lynette's parents had a will, and a trust for her, and she went to live with her aunt and uncle until she turned 18, they would have had access to the trust, and would have paid the house payments and taxes. It wouldn't have gone into foreclosure for any reason, and she would have inherited it when the trust dictated. Stupid plotholes, just asinine!

TO RECOMMEND, OR NOT TO RECOMMEND, THAT IS THE QUESTION: *This could have been decent. Brian Ames & Christie Burson are perfectly cast. Christie Burson does such a fantastic job, she almost makes it watchable. Even the plotholes are not the deal breaker, annoying, but not a deal breaker. The protagonist Annie Savage, played by Lily Anne Harrison, is the deal breaker. She's the most unlikable b*tch I've ever seen. She enjoys hurting the mentally ill, she brow beats her sweet husband, she's smug, arrogant, and generally nauseating. As viewers, we're supposed to root for the protagonist, and she made it impossible. The treatment here was good, but the execution was irritating. If these kinds of issues don't bother you, then it's not the worst made-for-tv movie in the world. But if you're a detail oriented person, or if it annoys you when the "good guys" are horrible people, then give this one a pass.

CLOSING NOTES: *THIS IS A MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE, please keep that in mind before you watch/rate it. TV movies have a much lower budget, and so your expectations should be adjusted.

*I HAVE NO CONNECTION TO THE FILM, or production in ANY way. This review was NOT written in full, or in part, by a bot. I am just an honest viewer, who wishes for more straight forward reviews (less trolls and fanboys), and better entertainment. Hope I helped you out.

I expected this to be a lesson for home buyers about how to deal with possible real estate problems that may come along in real life. Instead this is about some psycho, criminal, mental disorder, and emotions. Same as in all Lifetime movies. About subjectivity, relationships, romanticism, twists, crimes. Almost has nothing to do with realty or realtors. I expected more serious and convincing issues and more papers, government, objects. Amateur, but good topic still. Good looking girls and makeup. Not a guide to realty. Also twists are so unconvincing.

I actually really enjoyed this one, Lifetime never fails but this was exceptional fun! I absolutely adored Meg, she was the right dose of nuts and sillyness to make me just fall in love!