A restaurateur has it all--a successful business, a beautiful house and a loving family--until a ravishing femme fatale with stiletto heels and an axe to grind walks into his life.A restaurateur has it all--a successful business, a beautiful house and a loving family--until a ravishing femme fatale with stiletto heels and an axe to grind walks into his life.A restaurateur has it all--a successful business, a beautiful house and a loving family--until a ravishing femme fatale with stiletto heels and an axe to grind walks into his life.
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Model-perfect blonde Brook Burns (as Suzanne) drives her car into a woman riding a bicycle, sending her to the hospital with broken bones. As it quickly becomes evident, Ms. Burns wants the woman's job as hostess at "Michael's Bar & Grill". Dressed for success and seduction, Burns crashes the interview sessions and is immediately hired by handsome Philadelphia restaurateur Tim Rozon (as Michael Miller). Burns lets her boss know she's available for sex, also, but Mr. Rozon declines. His wife Ashley Jones (as Catherine Kearney) is taking a year off work to stay at home and raise their newborn son Evan...
This being a "Lifetime" TV movie, you might expect a devious woman plotting against a hapless male. You won't be disappointed...
Rozon tells Burns he's going to be faithful to his wife, but she won't take "no" for an answer. Friends at work wonder how Rozon can "keep it at half mast." Things get wild. Although it's fun to watch director Curtis James Crawford and his team deal with the assignment, poor Rozon really should have taken action after either the handcuffs or blackmail incidents. Also, the sex tape looks like a drugged man is being sexually assaulted. Credit writer John Serge with having Rozon ask, "Why didn't I just tell her the truth from the start?" You've got to appreciate lines that that in movies like "A Sister's Revenge".
***** A Sister's Revenge (4/27/13) Curtis Crawford ~ Brooke Burns, Tim Rozon, Ashley Jones, Joe Marques
This being a "Lifetime" TV movie, you might expect a devious woman plotting against a hapless male. You won't be disappointed...
Rozon tells Burns he's going to be faithful to his wife, but she won't take "no" for an answer. Friends at work wonder how Rozon can "keep it at half mast." Things get wild. Although it's fun to watch director Curtis James Crawford and his team deal with the assignment, poor Rozon really should have taken action after either the handcuffs or blackmail incidents. Also, the sex tape looks like a drugged man is being sexually assaulted. Credit writer John Serge with having Rozon ask, "Why didn't I just tell her the truth from the start?" You've got to appreciate lines that that in movies like "A Sister's Revenge".
***** A Sister's Revenge (4/27/13) Curtis Crawford ~ Brooke Burns, Tim Rozon, Ashley Jones, Joe Marques
The villain was evil but so cartoon evil. There was nothing even about her that seemed real. Her motive for ruining this man's life, her victim, is just too ridiculous. She grieved the loss of her sister to suicide, and seeks revenge on the boyfriend. Not only does the villain target him, but also his innocent wife and child. The film dragged on a bit and that police detective has such a cool voice that it was a shame he didn't have a bigger role in this!
Okay. This is a pretty good nail biter even though it has all the stereotypes of the genre...perfect housewife...sexpot villain...good looking but shallow and sneaky husband...predictable ending. Gone With The Wind it ain't but it still was better on a snowy Sunday night than ploughing the driveway. But once again we have a film made in Canada and subsidized by the Canadian, Ontario and Quebec governments that is set in Philadelphia.(!!!) We prostitute ourselves repeatedly this way because with the remarkable inferiority complex of the Canadian film industry, we convince ourselves that nobody will watch a movie set in Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver or wherever. We create a few jobs for Canadian film editors, honey wagon drivers and second rate actors that way, but do nothing to enhance our national image. As a taxpayer in Ontario, why am I promoting Philadelphia?
For the perhaps hundreds of "psycho something" movies on Lifetime - and having shamelessly admittedly watched darn near most of them, I will say this is one of the better ones.
Former fashion model turned-actress Brooke Burns portrays Suzanne the vengeful sister, and she does all the things we come to expect from a Lifetime movie psycho trying to wreak havoc on a mostly doting husband - fake or contrive an affair, infiltrate the household, plant suspicions in the marriage, ruin the husband's business, and otherwise ruin his reputation in the community.
I'm actually truly saddened that Michael, the husband victim, simply allowed the abuse and manipulation go on and on and on, just simply hoping magically that it would all just go away by itself. We all know the psycho cavalierly simply continues her psycho-ness until she gets shot or hit over the head with a shovel.
And, of course, when he tells his wife or best friend that he's "going to put an end to all of this" that simply means he's going to vehemently confront the woman very publicly - almost always, making matters yet worse, resulting in a restraining order. If he had watched enough Lifetime movies, he would know quite adroitly that that NEVER EVER works.
It also annoyed me that Michael never ever tried to go on the offensive, cause some disruption in HER life or set a trap... something! No. Instead he simply allows things to escalate to the point that his wife is physically harmed MULTIPLE TIMES and his recent-born baby is put at risk, and he's on the hook for ATTEMPTED MURDER. AND STILL he was willing to simply comply the psycho's demands.
Despite these annoyances, this was still a pretty decent psycho movie in this genre which is why I gave it a single notch above average.
Former fashion model turned-actress Brooke Burns portrays Suzanne the vengeful sister, and she does all the things we come to expect from a Lifetime movie psycho trying to wreak havoc on a mostly doting husband - fake or contrive an affair, infiltrate the household, plant suspicions in the marriage, ruin the husband's business, and otherwise ruin his reputation in the community.
I'm actually truly saddened that Michael, the husband victim, simply allowed the abuse and manipulation go on and on and on, just simply hoping magically that it would all just go away by itself. We all know the psycho cavalierly simply continues her psycho-ness until she gets shot or hit over the head with a shovel.
And, of course, when he tells his wife or best friend that he's "going to put an end to all of this" that simply means he's going to vehemently confront the woman very publicly - almost always, making matters yet worse, resulting in a restraining order. If he had watched enough Lifetime movies, he would know quite adroitly that that NEVER EVER works.
It also annoyed me that Michael never ever tried to go on the offensive, cause some disruption in HER life or set a trap... something! No. Instead he simply allows things to escalate to the point that his wife is physically harmed MULTIPLE TIMES and his recent-born baby is put at risk, and he's on the hook for ATTEMPTED MURDER. AND STILL he was willing to simply comply the psycho's demands.
Despite these annoyances, this was still a pretty decent psycho movie in this genre which is why I gave it a single notch above average.
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