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Really, aren't Lifetime writers/producers aware of any other female names other than the same 3 or 4 they use over and over and OVER?? Sarah, Allison, Karen, and Ashley seem to be the only names given to female characters in Lifetime flicks, for years now. I'm tempted to send them a names book but I'm sure they could find a website with hundreds of names to choose from - to enable them to finally stop/never use again the above-mentioned four that have been beyond over-used. Don't they ever look back over their last hundred movies to see how many characters were named those names, so they would realize they need to find new names they've never used?? I mentioned this in a past review I posted here on imdb but apparently Lifetime doesn't read our reviews here, although they really should. It's really getting on my nerves - I'm so tired of main characters named Allison and Sarah in 8 out of 10 LMN flicks. There really are other names to use.

But even more annoying and cheesy/tacky is the self-aggrandizing Viveca Fox with those stupid lame lines she just has to coyly end each movie in which she played yet another high school principal or corporate executive: "He was the WRONG stepfather/boy next door/(WHATEVER)"..... What did she do to get such power to be able to further reduce the intelligence and class of LMN movies that way - become the major stockholder in the company?? She also has exec producer or some kind of credit other than 'actress' in several recent flicks, which apparently gives her the leeway to put her superficial narcissistic touch on them, to the detriment of the story and plot, etc. As if her voluminous plastic surgery and fillers/Botox weren't enough to make her a laughingstock.

These 2 complaints among others would've been enough to steer me away from watching another LMN movie ever again, if I didn't know that it could do so much better, because it has....many times, over the years.

This movie was the usual ad nauseam Lifetime formula/pattern, with the clueless female lead who's blind to the fact that her new boyfriend/fiance/husband is a psychotic sociopath manipulator con artist until it's almost too late. Yawn. The acting all around was too shallow and distracted to care what happened to any of them.

Although I will say it was nice to see Krista Allen playing a sane, decent, caring mom after her tour de force performance in 'Party Mom' a year or 2 ago. That's it for anything remotely positive I can muster up regarding this joke of a movie (made exponentially worse by narcissist Fox and yet another in a long line of 'Sarah' characters).

...there are certain rules you must follow. For example, if you find out anything incriminating about the bad guy, be sure to call the object of his or her obsession. They won't pick up, but you should leave a cryptic message anyway. It won't matter because the good guy will be taking a shower or something, and the bad guy will intercept and delete the message.

Then, go and confront the bad guy with the information you have against them. Make sure no else has the information, and you have the only copy. Also be sure to meet them somewhere private, where it is only the two of you. That always turns out well.

There are many formulaic plot points most of these movies follow, but that is one of my favorites. So I won't even bother getting into all the others this movie uses.

Woman gets divorced.

Woman has job.

Woman has teenager.

Woman lives in multi million dollar house.

Woman is desperate for attention/man.

Woman gets botox and puffy lips.

Daughter gets puffy lips.

All females in film either have puffy lips or are botox ambassadors/models.

WOW!!!

Good enough to watch, no glaring mistakes with LFM alumni cast Vivica A. Fox and Corin Nemec (Craig) who alternates between a good guy and a bad guy in these LFM TV movies.

To one of the other reviewers, LOL, you are referring to the LFM plot device known as 'the early threat'. That poor guy's purpose is to reveal something about the villain to the audience and then conveniently disappear by doing something the defies all known survival instincts. They will confront the psychopath in a deserted hilltop, parking lot, and in this case his home. I have come to anticipate this moment in LFM movies and grade them on how well they set it up. The more absurd the better. This one was A+ in terms of stupidity, 'I have something that can destroy you, I didn't tell anyone else yet or that I was coming here and we are alone, and societal norms will protect me'. It was a C in terms of delivery, no dramatic toss off a hillside.