There were tons of extra lying in this psycho thriller.
At 53 seconds into the movie hubby called wife and told the first lie.
At 1:01 he repeated the lie.
Then she lied twice to cover up his 2 lies.
From there on it was a slippery slope of all kinds of lying by just about everyone in the movie.
I briefly thought about counting all the lies. Then I knew I didn't have that much time in my life and decided to just let sleeping dogs uhh -- lie. Sorry, that's a different kind of lie, but I couldn't resist.
Maybe this movie should have been titled, Lethal Lies.
Well to the backstory: The MCs were brother Drew (Adam MacDonald) and sister Nina (Kellie Martin). Both were repeatedly abused and traumatized by their alcoholic father as children. In a final act of retaliation, Drew killed both parents by causing a house fire.
He later was sent to juvenile prison for stabbing a man who roughed up Nina. After his return, two people they both knew vanished including Nina's boyfriend whom Drew did not like.
Nina had to get away - changing her identity, her job, her location to build a whole new life to protect those around her from her extremely disturbed brother.
Now years later, Nina had a family and a good job. But Drew after much searching finally found her and discovered her handsome doctor husband wasn't making Nina happy...
Drew was boyishly handsome with a disarming smile which of course made him appear a most unlikely killer. But big sister Nina had a protective streak of her own and wasn't afraid to go all in to protect the ones she loved.
This 2007 release was 9 years before Hallmark's Haley Dean Mysteries, but even back then, this Kellie Martin character wasn't afraid to show she could push back when pushed.
IMDB's average rating for this movie is 5.1. In my viewing experience, I'm going to bump it up to 6.5.
