What Lies Behind Closed Doors

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

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This was a retread of so many past Lifetime movie with a nanny character. This time, though, the nanny was a good person. But I really didn't care what happened in the movie and the plot had a lot of holes in it! An overall disappointment. Skip it!

Everything seemed obvious to me. Spoiler: there was no twist. The movie tried to throw a bunch of different motivations at the characters and even tried with one character that would have been WAY out of left field, but we all know these movies and how they work. A twist is the exception, not the rule. The actress playing the nanny was so blah and emotionless (until one scene before the climax), and I found the relationship with her classmate to be pointless. They didn't have that much chemistry and it felt like his purpose in the movie was so that she wasn't alone. Which isn't a bad thing, but they just had no chem and it was hard to determine if she was friendzoning him or if she was actually interested. That guy also overacted a lot. A LOT. The villain's monologue/confession was pretty cheesy and anticlimactic because it was just so matter of fact. Everything the villain does from start to finish made me think who is supposed to be fooled by this? Part of the motivation didn't even make sense because the movie showed none of what the villain was ranting about. Trying to do better about spoilers in my reviews, but it was really kind of eye-roll worthy to listen to. I watched the whole thing and it wasn't really slow-paced, but it wasn't the best. Felt like a filler movie and/or pages of the script were cut for budget purposes. I mean it's ok to watch while you're doing chores or need background noise, but don't make this the movie you curl up on the couch looking forward to after a long day. It will disappoint and there are better nanny movies on Lifetime. Not many, but they are there. I'd say it's in the worst 7 of 2022 so far and that's mostly because they could have tried harder. The best ones of the year at his point are still Deadly Infidelity, Deadly Dance Competition, and Fatal Fandom. Maybe A Gift of Murder. P. S. One annoying thing I didn't really get about the movie was how the little boy treated the nanny. He seemed kind of spoiled and bratty for no reason. He took to her right away, but then after that one day of her being late, he totally flipped. It seemed odd.

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It was easy as pie to figure out that it was Caroline (the wife) who killed the Spanish tutor that had an affair with her husband Steven. Although the audience was supposed to believe it was either the husband or the Spanish tutor's ex boyfriend Nick, up until his death 30 minutes into the ending. They even tried to throw us off with Caroline's business trip, so that the audience would never suspect that it was her. But it just didn't work. It was so painfully obvious. Lindsay Hartley, who's been an actress on Lifetime/LMN for years now, thinks she can direct films all of a sudden. Newsflash: she most certainly cannot! Because all the movies she's directed so far, have either been mediocre or downright awful. This one is no exception. As for the acting, it was absolutely dreadful! Why Lifetime keeps casting the actress that plays "Kimberly" in their other movies is beyond me, Since she cannot act at all, and her character was void of any real emotion whatsoever, while her boyfriend (or classmate) was the polar opposite. Overacting in every scene he was in (Britt, Caroline's sister, also overacted in her few scenes). I'm usually not too hard on child actors in my reviews but the son, Jasper acted like a complete brat after that one day of the nanny being late to pick him up. He acted like that for the rest of the movie, which was so annoying. Caroline's motive for killing Serena (tutor) and Nick was just so weak and lackluster. To prevent the neighborhood from gossiping about her husband's affair with her son's tutor??? That was probably the least of her concerns at the moment. Now two people are dead. And as usual, Laurie Fortier hardly showed any emotion during her whole motive speech. Lindsay Hartley is better off just acting in movies rather than directing them, it's just not her thing imo. She should leave the directing to the professionals.

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