Entre o Amor e o Ódio

If you enjoy seeing Susan Lucci camp it up weekdays on "All My Children" then you simply must catch this film on one of its fairly regular airings on the Lifetime Channel. Watch as over-the-top drama-queen Lucci delivers such wonderfully delicious lines as "...you're tearing yourself apart over something that can never be..." to an obsessed teenager she's recently had an affair with. Scandalous!!!

The main story revolves around Patrick Van Horn ("Swingers") (although his career never took off like Jon Favreau). He is very sympathetic as the young man who gets in over his head and has an affair with the local society matron, Susan Lucci. Lucci looks lovely as ever, and it is hard to believe she hasn't really gotten the chance at any similar roles in legitimate film, at least in the 80's and 90's, when she was at the height of her career.

Even if you are not a major soap fan, you may enjoy this movie. Susan Lucci as the bored wife of Barry Bostwick (he has played many of these roles) becomes involved with Van Horn, and then unceremoniously dumps him at the end of the summer. She gets a restraining order against him, and he begins to become obsessive.

This is another based on truth Lifetime feature. Truth really is stranger than fiction. 7/10

This is a role Susan Lucci has patented. She comes off as being very seductive, but turns out to be a tease to a young guy that thinks he's in love. It turns out, that she's bitten off more than she can chew. (No pun intended!) ** out of ****

I remember watching this movie in my twenties, it was awesome it really makes you think. Usually roles like this, it'll be a man playing with the minds of young girls. It was really different to see the roles reversed, to have a woman taking advantage of this young man. When one man falls seriously in love with her, she realizes she played with the wrong guy! And things are really get ugly!

I watched this film with a particular perspective on the subject and I have to admit I very much liked the treatment of the story. One viewer comments that this film is supposed to be a true story. I can say that it absolutely is true. The young man in the story is my first cousin and his family is my family. The setting was changed, but the events were actually very faithfully represented. I will commend Ms. Lucci for not playing the character as a parody, but playing the role with as much depth as she did. It might otherwise have cheapened the struggles that family had faced prior to, during, and after those terrible events.