Synopsis
Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her.
Fatal Honeymoon
2012 Directed by Nadia Tass
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Alternative Titles
Death in Paradise, Lua de Mel Fatal, El asesino de la luna de miel, Lune de miel tragique, Una fatale luna di miele, Moarte în paradis, Lua-de-Mel Fatal
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18 Nov 2012
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Spain
28 Jan 2013
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France
28 Jan 2013
- TV TF1
Spain
18 Nov 2012
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25 Aug 2012
- TVNR Lifetime
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One of Lifetime’s true-crime adaptations that boasts a few pretty great performances.
If the “facts” portrayed in this film are somewhat accurate, it’s pretty clear that Gabe murdered Tina. Or at least allowed her to die.
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Almost worth watching for the extra with the goatee in the background of this shot
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A Lifetime TV film about the murder of Tina Watson and as predictably bad as you would expect.
I had never heard of the case before and through Nadia Tass's slightly annoying non-linear structure, I did manage to make sense of the case and get involved in the story and so I must give points for that and Amber Clayton and Harvey Keitel are good in the roles of the unfortunate honeymooner and her father, respectively (easily, the best part of the film is an affecting scene where Watson's father discovers his daughter is dead), but at the end of the day, this is still a Lifetime made-for-TV movie and so it falls into all of the usual trappings of…
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Australian made TV film for lifetime channel. Based on the Honeymoon Killer or Tina Watson’s mysterious death while scuba diving in QLD. Australia.
Nadia Tass has pretty good body of Aussie Films over her career and surprised she Directed this one. Also Harvey Keitel as the Grieving Father helped give some added star billing.
I can tell everything was filmed in Australia. Even the scenes in Alabama looked like Suburban Australia. Was quite funny.
An interesting case this one. Did Gabe Watson murder his wife of only 11 days.
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you know when you watch a film & can immediately tell that it’s a low budget production & not one of the actors took a single acting class? well, this is one of those
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This is a hodgepodge of different genre tropes, including lifetime “psycho in our midst” exploitation melodrama, true crime docudrama with footage of Anderson Coooer discussing the actual lurid case, and Australian police procedural with a lot of explanatory narrative. And then in the middle of it all, Harvey Keitel just kind of sleepwalking his way through this trashy mess, but in a way that works for his role as a traumatized aggrieved father. His character’s nemesis, the colossally horrid Gabe Watson, is depicted somewhat nauseatingly as an utter douchebag by Billy Miller, who looks like an amalgam of smug soap opera bad guys. He plays such a convincing creepazoid that you kind of feel like this can’t be an act.…
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this movie is about the death of my once-aunt (by marriage) i was around all of these people and lemme just say. this movie is terrible. but kind of funny bc of how bad it is
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I don't actually know if I've seen a Lifetime movie before. I ended up here as the result of a challenge that I'm doing, and Harvey Keitel being 4th billed is a gateway to many other movies for me, in this challenge. My response to what might be my first Lifetime movie ever, is: What's the point?
This is an interesting case that I'd heard of before, and I totally believe that Gabe Watson murdered his wife. But I found almost nothing interesting or enjoyable about watching this movie. I would gladly watch a documentary about this, or listen to a podcast about it. But this just came across to me as a 90 minute reenactment sequence from a crime…
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Very much a lifetime-style true-crimer which placates and reinforces conventional attitudes and plays up the villainy of the highly suspect widower.
Fatal Honeymoon benefits from a decent cast which includes Keitel as the father of the deceased, and a stacked Australian ensemble including Gary Sweet, Peter O'Brien (not sure about that American accent though), Andrew Buchanan, Damien Richardson, David Roberts and Andrew S. Gilbert. This also extends to the director, who happens to be a now well-past-her-best Nadia Tass.
Unfortunately, the couple leads are your typical fly-in daytimey Americans primed to coddle the demographic audience. Billy Miller is a game lifetime villain, but it is hard to take his character seriously, clearly skewed unfairly to satiate an appetite.
Still, amusement can be found in playing spot-the-Gold-Coast-location, especially when they try to pass them off as Alabama.
