A Wife's Nightmare (2014)

Touches You

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The former lead star of the 1983 movie "Flashdance" Jennifer Beals stars in this Lifetime TV movie entitled "A Wife's Nightmare" together with Katherine McNamara and Dylan Neal.This Lifetime television film directed by Vic Sarin tells a story of young woman Jackie,who visits a family and tells the husband and wife - Gabe and Liz - that she happens to be the daughter of the husband towards a former girlfriend.Liz,who just had a mental breakdown,did her own investigation and found out that the nineteen year old Jackie provides them a false information and that her husband is having an affair with the Jackie.This led Liz to cast both away from home.This maybe a simple story.No question about it.But Jennifer Beals provides a good performance to somewhat overlook the simple screenplay.Added to that,her interesting performance made it a lot better than a typical standard TV "A ______'s Nightmare" movie.

Following a nervous breakdown, attractive businesswoman Jennifer Beals (as Elizabeth "Liz" Michaels) is sent home from the psychiatric hospital. With help from some balancing medication, Ms. Beals believes she can also return to work. This is great news, because handsome musician husband Dylan Neal (as Gabe) is still looking for a best-seller, after completing two albums. The couple have one son, cute high school-aged Spencer List (as AJ). For some unexplained reason, Mr. List can't attract a pretty girl at school. After grocery shopping one day, mom and dad are accosted by beautiful blonde 19-year-old Lola Tash (as Caitlin Patterson). She claims her recently deceased mother named Mr. Neal as her father...This makes the sexy young woman Neal's daughter from a brief relationship, occurring way back. Presently living in her car, Ms. Tash is invited into the family. Now, remember Ms. Beals had a psychiatric problem. At first, she accepts Tash as a step-daughter. But Beals starts to see Tash getting very chummy with the family. One scene has Tash spilling a drink on her ample chest, with the camera moving in to show Neal patting out the wetness as it drips down her cleavage. Tash also makes slightly younger List giggle when tickling his upper thighs as they play video games. Beals witnesses these incidents and thinks they may not be so innocent. They are not explicit enough for us to know what's going on, supposedly...In reality, it's fairly obvious...This "Lifetime" TV movie never gets away from its formula, but director Vic Sarin and the cast do make it slightly better than ordinary. This is most evident in the four leading players. They remain convincing, as Mr. Sarin keeps their characterizations on track through some idiocy. Beals does not seem like she could have been crazy, but we're not shown that part of the story. List says he loves the "Underground Records" shop where Tash works, but does not recognize the gorgeous blonde who worked there is his new sister. Yet, List portrays his young teenage character very well. The opening minutes go overboard in showing Tash's emotions, but she's quite impressive. Finally, Neal definitively nails his daddy role home.***** A Wife's Nightmare (12/27/14) Vic Sarin ~ Jennifer Beals, Lola Tash, Dylan Neal, Spencer List

"A Wife's Nightmare" is a very recent entry to Emmy-winning Vic Sarin's Nightmare movie series. However, it does really not become clear until almost the very end till we now why it says "Mom's" in the title. The movie runs slightly under 90 minutes as usual for these television films and the title character is played by Jennifer Beals. Thanks to "Flashdance" she is also easily the most known cast member, certainly the only star in here. However, I felt that all the other 3 major cast members played their parts as well and especially about Lola Tash we may hear a lot in the future. She plays a kind of Lolita character who her dad is attracted to, who kisses her brother and gets other boys have a crush on her.And while I enjoyed the film overall, there are also weak aspects about it. In terms of a combination of script and acting, there are some bad moments here, such as when we see Beale's character's boss being angry at the failed presentation. Or the fight between the 2 school boys at the end. Honestly, they messed up a bit every time it went really dramatic. Possibly the worst aspect here was the soundtrack who made this Canadian movie look pretty amateurish at times. It is all quantity over quality with extremely dramatic music in fairly uninteresting sequences even.I personally would have liked another outcome if we actually got to witness it all being misunderstood by the main character, which would actually have been credible with her history of mental health problems. Instead they offered us a story-line which wasn't too convincing with an upcoming divorce coming pretty much out of nowhere. This film has some flaws no doubt about it, but for a lifetime movie it's all okay. You cannot expect something epic here, but overall I give this one a thumbs up and no denying Lola Tash is extremely stunning.

I was very disappointed with this movie. It had the potential to be really good. Especially when we couldn't tell WHAT was going on. But of course it turned out to be clichéd by the end. Of course.I am so tired of Lifetime movies where the men turn out to be the losers in the situation. It would have been so much better if Liz had been insane and Caitlin had actually been his daughter. Liz flushed her pills in the first thirty minutes of the movie. The acting was strong from everybody though, so there are points for that.But the plot was terrible and I highly doubt that it was based on actual events.