Runtime:
90 minutes
Release
Date: April 13, 2013
Rating:
NR
Director:
Mark Tonderai
Time for
yet another Lifetime movie review! What can I say? I had to watch
what I could before they expired on Netflix.
Diane
Harkin is a new to the force police officer. Though the city has a
hiring freeze, she apparently had some friends in higher places who
helped her land the job, which leaves her less than accepted by her
peers. What they don't know is what she changed her name after
leaving her abusive ex-husband and took off for a new city with their
son in tow.
One of
her first cases involves a woman forced off the road by her abusive
husband and then shot to death. No one else takes it very serious,
even when she shows them proof that the guy stalked her for years.
She then takes on a case where a woman named Jane and her current
boyfriend are stalked by a woman named Ivy. When Diane learns that
Julia from the DA's office didn't file charges, she makes it her
personal mission to help Jane in any way possible.
After
Ivy continues her stalking, Diane turns to Julia for help. Since this
is a Lifetime movie, Julia is currently sleeping with her married
boss and believes that he'll help her set up a new task force to
bring an end to stalking. He actually goes behind her back and
decides to use the funds for that project in a completely new way. As
Ivy's stalking intensifies, the two women decide to work together to
change the current stalking laws.
As much
as I usually love Lifetime movies, this one was way too ridiculous
even for me. Jane has a boyfriend who she loves and then has a chance
meeting in an elevator with Ivy. After her car won't start, Ivy gives
her a ride home. The director tries to show that they have chemistry
but it doesn't really work. We then get to see them on their third
meeting where they suddenly have so much chemistry that they wind up
having sex together.
Ivy
somehow has access to all the boyfriend's financial records through
her job, so she sets it up so that he loses the loan he already had
secured for his new bakery. Can that even happen? The boyfriend goes
to Jane, asks her to sign a loan for him, and then storms off and
dumps her when she refuses. They then somehow wind up back together
without the film explaining what the hell just happened.
It's
also pretty ridiculous that this is based on a true story but changes
everything about the real story. If I remember correctly, it doesn't
even take place in the same city or same state. Drea de Matteo pretty
much plays the same character that she does in every film: the hard
and tough as nails NY/NJ chick, and Jodi Lynn O'Keefe as Julia
practically sleepwalks through the whole film.
The only
shining spot is Mena Suvari as Ivy. You can't see her inside the
walls and staring at Jane through the vents without feeling at least
a minor chill go up your back. Since the rest of the movie is pretty
lame, I'm glad I watched it when I had nothing else going on.
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