2019 Directed by David DeCoteau
After receiving a promotion and more responsibility at work, Melanie decides to hire Phoebe as her personal assistant. Smart and cunning, Phoebe has an ulterior motive for taking the job and a twisted plan for revenge involving Melanie's mother.
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In the spirit of today's holiday: a Lifetime thriller (available for free on YouTube), directed by David DeCoteau and accented with all the usual notes he loves to play: a recently promoted businesswoman being stalked by her deranged assistant (who gives off serious Lara Flynn Boyle vibes), Vivica A. Fox as the company's CEO, client Eric Roberts sending unsolicited dick pics (all-timer follow-up dialogue: "If the pic is a fit, you must sit!"), Dominique Swain is a recovering addict who Knows Things about the psycho-assistant, another employee attends a birthday party for the protagonist's young daughter and promptly decides to discuss autoerotic asphyxiation in extreme detail, film historian David Del Valle appears in a cameo as a barista and horror…
there's a whole scene where a character explains autoerotic asphyxiation for the presumed average lifetime viewer who is blissfully unaware! they lay the lite misandry and fake feminism on so thick in this one too i love every single minute of it. (wo)men helping women indeed
I showed my partner the bit where Eric Roberts says "If the pic is a fit, you must sit" and she said it made her cringe so hard her butthole's gonna be MIA for 2 days, so consider that a hearty recommendation.
This might be my favorite invocation of a movie title ever:
watched this only in the hope of seeing eric roberts and recover from the sbmd franchise. turns out, this doesn’t even compare.. eric roberts had no right to be this funny. he appeared on screen for only 30 seconds though so ://
every interior scene looks like it's filmed on a green screen. everyone's dial is turned up to eleven. i love this movie.
is there another actor who looks as happy to be on screen as eric roberts? i wish i could enjoy anything as much as he enjoys being in a schlocky movie for ten minutes. he's having a ball.
According to my girlfriend, the Lifetime expert: "You don't need to watch this movie."
I watched it. And I agree.
The Eric Roberts self asphyxiation subplot is the greatest thing in a "The Wrong..." movie by a mile...
As you will find out--a million of these wrongs will never make a right. All of these in the 'wrong' Lifetime franchise.. feature the same cast and they don't even follow on? Or the cast who feature in most of these end up with different names? The same director almost as well...how many more of these do you need before you run out of words to put after wrong...Lifetime is so good when they get it right but they got it so wrong....no pun intended. ps. Jessica Morris is very pretty and she shares a birthday with me which is cool.
O mistério vai escalonando cada vez de forma menos interessante, e a trama de "roubo de família" que poderia ser super divertida se torna apenas cansativa, triste
P.S: A Vivica Fox definitivamente não está nesse filme
This might be a long-term effect of going through DeCoteau's work, but this one finally broke my brain and I don't think I can recover.
The major holes in logic start almost right at the beginning, and it only gets more odd from there. You will get a headache trying to make sense of all this.
Not to mention how unhinged this is. I've seen a decent amount of his films so far, but this surpasses anything else I've seen of his in terms of that. My jaw was literally open in shock throughout most of the film.
I guess that would make that his best film thus far.
