Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jennifer Lopez | ... | Claire Peterson | |
Ryan Guzman | ... | Noah Sandborn | |
Ian Nelson | ... | Kevin Peterson | |
John Corbett | ... | Garrett Peterson | |
Kristin Chenoweth | ... | Vicky Lansing | |
Lexi Atkins | ... | Allie Callahan | |
Hill Harper | ... | Principal Edward Warren | |
Jack Wallace | ... | Mr. Sandborn | |
Adam Hicks | ... | Jason Zimmer | |
François Chau | ... | Detective Johnny Chou (as Francois Chau) | |
Bailey Chase | ... | Benny | |
Kent Avenido | ... | Mr. Avenido | |
Travis Schuldt | ... | Ethan | |
Brian Mahoney | ... | Couper | |
Raquel Gardner | ... | Barbara |
When a handsome, charming teenager named Noah (Ryan Guzman) moves in next door, newly separated high-school teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez) encourages his friendship and engages in a little bit of harmless (or so she thinks) flirtation. Although Noah spends much of the time hanging out with Claire's son, the teen's attraction to her is palpable. One night, Claire gives in to temptation and lets Noah seduce her, but when she tries to end the relationship, he turns violent.
This fatal attraction type movie was really very entertaining and interesting! First of all, I loved the casting for this movie, Jennifer Lopez did a great job as the lead role, and let's not forget our psychopath, Ryan Guzman, he really played his role well, nice and creepy, with a twisted edge to him. Kristin Chenoweth was very pleasant playing Jennifer Lopez's best friend and co-worker, and in my opinion, just added to the movie, Ian Nelson, who played Jennifer's teenage son was impressive in his role, no complaints here! There were several scenes where I was genuinely creeped out, and on the edge of my seat, which was this movies job, so I feel like it accomplished it's job. There were a couple of interesting twists towards the end that I did enjoy. It had good action sequences and an interesting climax. 8/10 for The Boy Next Door, it was a fun night watching this!