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Video Voyeur - The Susan Wilson Story

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This is an excellent made for TV movie. Starring Angie Harmon, Jamey Sheridan (both in the Law & Order franchise) and Dale Midkiff, this is about a family who move to Louisiana and their friendly neighbour, who happens to be a Deacon in the church, plants cameras in the house and spies on them.

What's make this hit home is that this is true and could happen to anyone. It makes you think about all the daft things you do when alone (like singing in the shower!) when you think no-one's looking.

There are great performances all round, from the whole cast. I've only seen Angie Harmon on Law & Order and was pleasantly surprised by how good an actress she is. Dale Midkiff is also very good in this, as he gets older he gets better and so do the parts he's getting, and Jamey Sheridan is excellent as the creepy neighbour. TV movies are usually run of the mill but this is very good. Much better than the garbage that's made here in the UK.

However, the only thing is that this was made in Canada, not Louisiana and it shows, it looks really cold, not the South at all!

WOW! This movie rocks. This is a movie about Susan Wilson and her family and the effects of their life being taped with out your permission. Susan was not going to sit there and do nothing, she stood up and made people who are doing these crimes accountable for them. This is a true story about a women who changed the law about video Voyeurs. And for those who may not know what Video Voyeur is it is the tapeing of your life, personal moments, sexual moments, and things to that effect with out your permission. Video Voyeurs can happen any where. Susan was safe in her own home, or so she thought! This was a GREAT lifetime original movie........

Although I don't usually watch made-for-TV movies, the only reason I watched this one is because I'm an Angie Harmon fan, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
This is a typical "woman in jeopardy" story based on a real life tale. What sets it apart from others(in my opinion)is the fine performance turned in by Ms. Harmon as Susan Wilson, a wife and mother of two who is being secretly videotaped by her neighbor and fellow churchgoer. She brings an emotional and energetic spirit to the character as we see her first settling in to the new communtiy, then discovering the disturbing invasion of privacy, and finally fighting back against the man responsible. Rather than remaining a victim, Susan Wilson chose to confront this individual and prosecute him as far as the state supreme court regardless of what her friends and neighbors said, and Angie Harmon portrays that effectively.
The movie does not give too much depth to the other characters such as Susan's husband and the motivations behind the neighbor's voyeurism but it does a good job with the title character and the essence of this story.
A routine story saved by a fine lead performance.

Angie Harmon stars in this true story where a Louisiana town's church deacon secretly plants video cameras inside a woman's home, giving him the ability to watch her every move...in the bedroom, in the shower, everywhere. When the woman finds out what is happening, and reports it..she finds out that what he did is not illegal. This is a true story! Angie Harmon and the lady who this movie is really about were recently on the talk show circuit saying how they are actually traveling from state to state in order to pass laws in each state making sure that this kind of behavior is deemed illegal. A great, enjoyable, empowering movie..I've watched it a few times already.

"Video Voyeur" is an emotional thrill ride into the life of Susan Wilson, a woman whose perfect life is brought to a halt when she finds tiny spy cams everywhere in her house. Although this is not one of my top film faves, I recommend it for anyone who loves TV movies (especially those awesome Lifetime dramas!). You will truly feel Susan's struggle to cope with the embarrassment,anger, and frustration of this ordeal because this type of violation can happen to any of us. Plus, Angie Harmon is excellent in her role!

Wow I saw this movie on TV and just watched it again. The man accross the road and his wife were perverts and scum who spied on their neighbors using video camera's. Unfortunately for the victims, the "church going" friends took the side of the perverts and made the victims feel at fault. Even though the "church going" friends obviously had issues too. What was in the water in that neighborhood? Are all those freaks still there? If your moving to that area, I would seriously reconsider. Haha. What a bunch of sick folks.

I love this movie. The best movies are the true stories. It's funny but it's also pretty scary and unnerving. I think that most of us can relate to the main character and empathize with her family. It's horrible what happened to her and awful that she didnt have the community support that she deserved from the start of her attempts to get justice. Its sad that things like this have to happen before policymakers get certain laws on the books. How much common sense do you have to have to create laws that don't have to specifically include certain infringements of privacy but that will encompass many wrong and illegal acts? This law should have been a part of a bigger laaw, created years ago.

This movie gave me the chills with how this pyscho watched this lady and her family on cam. The actors were great and i liked the story. Must See!

this move is a great true story. i could understand why she and other victims of such a crime would feel as if they had been raped. it is sickening that people would do such a thing. i belive all states should have a law against it.the movie was very good the woman who acted as susan was a great actress. i liked the movie alot

This story was so touching that I feel it is the glue that holds many women, and men, together after an experience of deceipt, where they find themselves the victim. I found strength in this story as well as an aliveness that made me glad I am not a complacent person who goes on day to day claiming that nothing evil happens in this world. There are many deceiptful people out there who are made up of both good and bad, some of them more bad than good, and we must help each other with every thread we have to overcome violations of our freedom, or our person, by exposing these situations and these people. Congrats to Susan for standing up for herself and being instrumental in changing some of the state's laws governing videotaping behavior. Loved it!