seadolfin
I agree the storyline is much over done, movies with similar story lines but these movies would not be successful ifs its not hitting home base, truth is this happens so often in reality and i'm sure alot of times women wish they could be like Karen. I thought the acting was pretty good, kept me at my screen not wondering off to the fridge like i usually do.
blanche-2
We all know Lifetime. For some of us it's like watching The Comedy Channel. The formula is always the same: young, attractive people you've never seen before in one of the two or three plots Lifetime uses.This one, The Good Mistress from 2014 is one of the pack. Sandy Cooper (Anne Heise), a recovering alcoholic on five years probation, who has a beautiful figure and beautiful hair, moves to a small town and takes a job at her best friend's (Kendra Anderson) law firm. She meets a guy (Antonio Cupo) right away and sleeps with him on the first date (if you don't count him running into her at the coffee place a date).Just one small problem, which she finds out later. Her best friend is married to him. It gets worse. Okay. First of all, why she would take an apartment with that sleaze landlord is beyond me. Second, she meets her best friend's husband who asks her out on a date? Sing one verse of "Small World, Isn't It." And of course there is the ubiquitous parking garage scene. We all know how women like to go into them alone.At the last minute something elevates this film from a D to a C-. And for Lifetime, that's not bad.
Geeky Randy
While coping with the events following a car accident caused by her, recovering alcoholic Heise moves to Shelter Hills to rekindle with longtime friend Anderson, who has offered her a position at a firm. Things appears to be patching up nicely, especially when she meets dreamboat Cupo at the grocery store parking lot. Not only does he turn out to be a candidate in the county elections, he is also turns her friend's husband
oh, yeah, and a suspect in a murder investigation. Does a pretty decent job with the twists and turns, and the acting is better than most Lifetime Movies. Like of lot of these types, there is an overload on characters for the mere purpose of having lots suspects, a crutch to distract us from piecing things together too easily. Definitely worth the watch if you are completely bored or have a taste for cheap TV-movies.**½ (out of four)
decemberangel1286
This movie totally sucked and there was no plot. there was a bad acting job. where did they come up with the storyline? the storyline was totally awful, and the wife committed all the crimes? Who would believe that? and who would make the husband the fall guy for all of the problems? That is just totally awful. To make everyone believe that you didn't know anything and that you act like nothing is wrong when in reality you know about your own husband's affairs. No wife would ever do anything terrible such as this. Save your time and don't watch this movie, this is a bunch of crap. This movie should not even be put on DVD, and if you thought safe haven was so bad this is worse than Safe Haven. this so cliché, the same storyline over and over? oh get a new theme people, like the wife don't know anything? get a new storyline people.
AD
