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I happen to catch this on lifetime many years ago, for what it's worth I thought it was a pretty decent movie, it wasn't a emmy award winning movie but it was still a good movie and Susan Lucci is f###### SEXY!

Susan Lucci can not act, even after all that time on All my Children she plays the same part. Non believable as a suductress. The only guy that was believable was the first husband. Richard and the lawyer looked like kids. Some of these reviews are badly written one just rambles on and on making no sense at all.

A conniving temptress, as I believe these women are known under the circumstances, persuades her rather stupid lover to ice her husband. Heard it before? Yes, that's right, in the infinitely superior "The Last Seduction". Watch that, or do the garden, or walk the dog, but don't waste your time with this.

A thematic staple of cinema since its inception is that genre involving seductive women whose wiles and means entice susceptible men not only into their arms but also into dire circumstances that typically will only result in jeopardy for the male victims, along with incertitude as to whether or not temptresses will be forced to take their medicine, and here Susan Lucci performs as a siren, although her acting chops from a primarily soap opera pedigree are inadequate to make her performance a credible one. Isabelle (Lucci), inconstant wife of venture capitalist Stewart Collins (John O'Hurley), begins a love affair merely for fun with yacht salesman Richard Davis (Philip Casnoff), simply a bagatelle for her but an earnest matter of the heart for Richard, apparently mesmerized by his lover while she takes advantage of his ardour by engaging him in a risky plot that will graduate into a scheme of murderous intent. When Davis becomes convinced that guileful Isabelle is a victim of physical abuse administered by her husband, he desperately attempts to free her from what he feels is a marital trap in order that he may wed her himself, coming to believe that the only clear solution to his plight will be found in a rudimentary essay at hiring a professional assassin who will dispose of the allegedly violent Stewart. In the wake of the hit-man's assault upon Collins, a pair of police detectives, performed by Joe Grifasi and Dean McDermott, become increasingly curious concerning Isabelle's possible involvement in the crime, while at the same time reality dawns upon enraptured Richard who might have to pay a dear price in return for his inamorata's maneuvering. Lucci and Kasnoff are properly cast as a viable pair of conspirators, each giving a reading that makes for a boring rather than charming set of lovebirds, but O'Hurley and McDermott offer strong turns in a film that suffers from a hackneyed scenario as well as uninventive direction and design elements. Released upon a Fremantle DVD, this largely lustreless affair depicting a man 'neath the spell of a seductress does benefit from top-flight visual and sound quality, and although no extra features are provided, the above-average production quality enhances able efforts from cinematographer Robert Primes and composer Stephen Edwards.

I am completely appalled to see that the average rating for this movie is 5.2/10 For what affects me, it is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I still keep wondering why I watched it until the end. First of all, the plot is totally hopeless, and the acting truly awful. I think that any totally unknown actress would have been better for the role than Susan Lucci; concerning Mr. Kamar Del's Reyes, I think it would have been a better choice for him to remain in his "Valley of the Dolls". To sum up, it is total waste of time(and i'm trying to stay polite...) to avoid at any cost. My rating is 1 and I still think it is well paid, but since we cannot give a O....

Hmmmm.....i guess this movie didn't go as planned! Everyone has a flop from time to time. Seeing this, and I know I'm a little biased seeing my family portrayed so weakly but, ..compared to the real story..my family's story....you had all the wrong characters playing their parts!!! -was weak at most!!! The people in my family are very dominant! Susan Lucci??? Really??? So off lol more like Lucinda!!! Normally Greenwald prod. makes great TV movies. Hope Katherine's book is better!!!should have named it the lesser of two evils.her need to have him killed. And the lovers reasoning behind the murder for hire. We always joked around calling my mom "The Evil One"!

Susan Lucci, sulphurous brunette, gives way, as often, in the arms of her lover, Philip Casnoff. And as usually when she returns at her, she kisses her daughter Lauren Collins before facing her husband, John O'Hurley, a fantastically wealthy financier... The heroine does not regrettably succeed in bewitching the televiewer. The dialogues are hollow and the insipid persons.