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The Stranger Beside Me

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

Tiffani Amber Thiessen plays Jennifer, a woman who marries a man whose past is full of secrets. Initially Jennifer is happy when Chris asks her to marry him. He wants to join the Navy and he promises to protect her. But when they move to California strange things start happening on base--a peeping Tom starts looking in women's windows and eventually women start being raped. Jennifer's husband admits that he looked in some windows but promises that nothing else happened. Since Jennifer is pregnant, she decides to give him a second chance. When they return home to New Mexico, once again women are being raped and Jennifer begins to suspect that her husband is to blame.

The Stranger Beside Me is classic Lifetime. Tiffani Amber Thiessen has made some of my favorite Lifetime movies, including She Fought Alone, and she excels in her role as a wife who can't trust her husband. This movie isn't great by any means, but if you're in the mood for a little drama that will keep you entertained, you don't have to look much further than this.

When I first checked this movie out in a local video store I wasn't expecting much. the first thing that turned me off was the that it was a Lifetime Original, not that lifetime movies are bad but they are usually very generic and over dramatic. But the cover of the movie had something that made me change my mind; the look kind of spooky so I picked it up. After viewing it I was surprised to say that it was worth the try, the movie is wonderfully paced and has a well brought out story.

The film begins with Jennifer (played by Tiffany Amber Thiessen) a young single girl who meets the wrong guy. At first this guy seems nice, wants to help, and even wants to marry and establish a family. Everything goes wrong when they start living together; he becomes a peeping tom and rapist. She begins to suspect on him when he arrives late and begins to lie. Now the story may be a bit generic but the actors do such a good job at bringing something new to an old story that in the end it feels like a whole different story. Great solid flick, it will make me think twice about Lifetime Originals.


MY PERSONAL RATING: 4 OUT OF 5

I looooove! that the "Victim".....took! total control and became the Victor!....this is a powerful! message if it's headed....as some one said..."If a person tells or shows you who they are...Believe them!.....and stop making excuses and get out! as fast as you can and don't look back....

Excellent! movie.

The only reason I chose to watch this from an online rental site was because I wrongly assumed that this was a dramatization of Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Mewhich was about serial killer Ted Bundy. This 1995 drama is not about Bundy but another predator who is a serial peeping tom and rapist.

Tiffani Thiessen plays Jennifer, a young woman who is traumatized by a past experience and refuses to date until a nice and affable young man, Chris Gallagher (Eric Close) comes into her life. They date briefly and get married before moving to a naval base in California where strange incidents begin to happen - there's a peeping tom on the base and soon, women are getting raped. Jennifer begins to suspect her new husband when his nightly runs appear to coincide with these incidents.

Both leads are credible in their roles though in typical Lifetime fashion, the story smacks of melodrama. It was an interesting watch and will appeal to fans of Lifetime movies.

Good movie but intense. It can help one realize that if signs are in front of you to pay attention that could be obvious and not ignore them.

This is a well made movie. It is based on a true story and the actors were great. You have a feeling of what is going to happen at the end although it take a long time for it to get to the punchline. It is a fun movie to watch with adults and teenagers. It is good for teenagers because they can see what dangers are out there.

I liked this movie, but not as much as i thought I was going to. The guy in the movie was too good to be true. The wife was very smart. When she found out what he was doing, she got away from him as quickly as she could

well looking at the cover made me want to buy the movie im all about the cover and the name of the movie and if that can catch my attention then i have to buy it, well the movie was off the hook its good from begining to the end. everyone should get the movie you will enjoy it.

Imagine my surprise when I learned that "The Stranger Beside Me" is NOT a film version of the gripping biography of Ann Rule's shocking discovery that her friend Ted Bundy was the serial murderer they had been investigating! Rather, it is a typically lame, uninspired and hackneyed "Lifestyle television event," that is to say, television for women who like to fantasize that men are all closet voyeurs, stalkers, rapists and murderers. Though I agree the acting was acceptable, the film falls into so many "Lifestyle Network" stereotypes that you can see the complete film after watching about 20 minutes of it. This film is strictly for the women who fall into the category I've already mentioned.

A girl marries guy that she doesn't truly know. He has a dark side that leads him to start raping women in their neighborhood. If you like Lifetime movies and chick flicks this is a movie for you. Not Oscar worthy but definitely entertaining.