Stranger in the House

2016 "A helping hand turned deadly."
5.3| 1h28m| en| More Info
Released: 01 July 2016 Released
Producted By: MarVista Entertainment
Country: Canada
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Jade, a newly married lawyer, is shocked to discover that her elderly father has married his live-in nurse, who is less than half his age. Betrayal, murder, and dark secrets are on the horizon......

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nightroses The message of this movie is not to marry someone you hardly know. The old businessman in a wheelchair married his new carer while his daughter went away on a trip with her new husband. No one knows anything about the new carer, Samantha except she started off as a shy bespectacled girl with a colourful CV. After she was taken on as carer, daughter Jade went on her honeymoon with somewhat meek husband Marco. On their return, dad is married to Samantha who turned into femme fatale of the Century. The house is enormous, but wheelchair-bound dad is killed, and Samantha is now owner of the estate. Jade is grieving, while suspicions raised, but her smirking husband is nowhere near taking her side. There are a couple of mini twists in the film by halfway, but after that, it's just basically predictable, and a cat-and-mouse, hunting game with Jade drugged and persued by killer.
Michael Ledo Wayne (John Novak) is a acquitted Ponzi scheme operator who is in a wheel chair due to a car accident which killed his wife. His daughter Jade (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is going on her honeymoon and has hired Samantha (Jordana Largy) to be a caretaker. Now we know one of 2 things are going to happen. Samantha is either going to kill Wayne because she lost money or marry him. Since this is a Lifetime film...they decided to use both options and then give us the expected twist.Lifetime has their fans and I am sure this installment will have a loyal following. I found things to be too predictable once they exercised the double option. The acting and soundtrack I didn't find overly appealing either.
phd_travel The villain du jour is a Madoff like Ponzi scheme financial guy gets off the hook but there is more in store for him.His daughter is played by Emannuelle Vaugier - a Lifetime movie familiar face. She is quite good as she watches helplessly as a gold digger from hell caregiver marries her father. Doesn't get much help from her boyfriend who looks like Paul Ryan.Things point quite obviously to the bad guys or in this case the bad guys with a bit of a justification. But things move along quickly and it's quite fun to see things unfold.It's a bit of wish fulfillment for victims of financial fraud.
edwagreen While I was seeing the film, I was scenes ahead accurately predicting what would occur and who the accomplice was to that manipulative woman.There needed to be shown why the old boy was vindicated at his trial at a time of financial collapse in the country. From a deathly sick male depending upon an inhaler, that manipulative woman seemed to have worked wonders and miracles while seducing him into a marriage and cutting his daughter out of immense wealth.Yes, I was even able to predict who the cohort of this woman was but did not realize what her fate would be.Isn't it interesting that one year into a marriage and our heroine first starts asking question about her husband's parents?