L'enfer à domicile

This Lifetime made for television film tells an interesting but slightly campy look at voyeurism.

Susan Wilson (Angie Harmon) moves back to her Louisiana hometown with her family. They are given close attention by neighbour Steve Glover (Jamey Sheridan) who comes across as a little too overeager and creepy.

Susan becomes concerned when he seems to be privy to private conversations with her husband, Gary (Dale Midkiff) and sneaks into the his house to discover videotapes of herself in the shower and in the bedroom.

It seems Steve has secretly installed surveillance cameras in their house and has been taping them. To her horror she finds out that the police can do little about this as this type of voyeurism was not a crime. Worse the local church group are more forgiving of Steve and critical of Susan even when it emerges that other people in the town have also been secretly videotaped by Steve.

Susan campaigns to make this type offence a crime and takes the matter to court.

The film is earnest for Lifetime film but does come across as insipid. The neighbour is just too creepy from the word go, everything is black and white when their should had been more shade in characterisation. Harmon does well in the role who at first is shunned by many in the community for bringing the allegations against Steve. However there are flaws in the film. We are told that there was no audio in the tapes, so how did Steve know what Susan was talking about in her house?

This is a true story , it actually took place in the town that where I live. The guy was very wrong doing what he did and should have been stopped, who knows where he would have taped next. The story was well acted but could have been better, the sets could have been truer. I am not sure where they acutely filmed the movie, I do not think that it was where it actually took place. The scenery wast not anything like what it looks like around here, that is the only problem that I had with the movie. The actors did a good job of acting. If this deterred anyone else or made aware anyone else as to these things actually happening it was a good thing.

This movie was a very realistic movie.It was a Lifetime movie.Some of Lifetime's movies are not good, but this one was very good.The actors were great.Their acting was good most of the time.This movie has alot of feelings in it.Sometimes they were happy, mad, and most of all sad.Anyway, this movie is a realistic true story.

I generally dismiss any Lifetime TV movie. Can you blame me, what with titles like "Mother May I Sleep With Danger", "Danger In Blue Sky Country", and my personal favorite: "Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear"? However, I was flipping through the other night and it was on, and it actually caught my attention and held me. It was very interesting and well done for a television movie. I think Angie Harmon saved it, she's very good to watch. The script wasn't bad. But overall it was the fact that this was a true story and that I learned from watching it that only FIVE states in the US have laws against video voyeurism!! I couldn't believe it!

So, this was pretty good. The first Lifetime Movie I actually watched and could say I liked. I just watch Lifetime for Golden Girls and Nanny - both shows you should watch if you don't already, by the way!

so the theme is at least followed through, and Angie Harmon does very well portraying the victim of a video voyeur. If this was fiction it would not deserve a thought, but the fact that Ms. Wilson was actually taped by her psychotic landlord is an important fact.

Dale Midkiff is passable as the concerned husband, and Jamey Sheridan is very believable as the creepy voyeur. The audience also sees how a relatively average family, renting a house in New Orleans is victimized by "elders" of the local parish.

While sometimes these movies are completely over-the-top, this one is worth watching as a cautionary tale, and the performances are pretty good.

Jamey Sheridan especially deserves mention- think of Robin Williams in "One Hour Photo", and you will get the picture; a menacing character who we may encounter many times in our life; one never knows what a person is capable of. 7/10.