My Neighbor's Secret (TV 2009)

Director:

Leslie Hope

Writer:

Michael Murray

Stars:

Nicholas Brendon, Chandra West, Vincent Ventresca

Cast

Credited cast:
Nicholas Brendon	...	Brent
Chandra West	...	Casey
Vincent Ventresca	...	Jason
Dakota Goyo	...	Austin Hest
Natalie Lisinska	...	Gretchen
Mark Camacho	...	Detective Ruiz
Nick Baillie	...	Sean
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nicole Blundell	...	Receptionist
Cinthia Burke	...	Judy
Johnie Chase	...	Mayor Barry Morris
Curtis Dickie	...	Hospital patient
Trie Donovan	...	Paula Fisher
Kate Drummond	...	Coroner's Assistant
Anna Lisa Ferrari	...	Restaurant patron
Ian Finlay	...	Nicholas Grimaldi

Storyline

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Genres:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 September 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

El secreto de mi vecino

Company Credits

Production Co:

Capital Productions, Thrill Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References Grey's Anatomy (2005)

User Reviews

The Gold Standard In Guilty Pleasures

This is not Citizen Kane. This is a Lifetime Movie. The writing is geared toward the sensibilities of women of a certain age and station in life. If you can't accept the paradigm for what it is, you won't get far with this one.

That being said, this movie entertained the hell out of me.

Brent, played with brilliant, unselfconscious sociopathy by Nicholas Brendon, is both charming and menacing by turns as the the man obsessed. In a perfect marriage of script and actor, there are moments of both almost comical self-awareness as he narrates his intrusion into his neighbor's lives via spy cams.

Chandra West, as Casey, is extremely engaging and sympathetic and has a natural chemistry with Nicholas Brendon that added terrifically to both his character's fantasy sequences and their more subtle interactions as well.

Vincent Ventresca as the husband, Jason, did a remarkable job balancing the colder aspects of his character with understated, but obvious love for his family, as well as a certain amount of personal charm which justified and bolstered his place in the film's quasi-romantic triangle.

The supporting cast was delightfully earnest in their delivery, which is nothing especially new for the Lifetime network, but a wonderfully familiar convention all the same.

Without giving too much away, it is worth noting that there were several well placed and surprising twists in the story which took it one step beyond the conventional movie-of-the- week storytelling.

In short, this was a great film, and well deserving of an evening in with an afghan and a box of girl scout cookies.