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Better Late Then Never

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

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.

Ariel (Emily Osment) loses her father and her mother Dana (Victoria Pratt) is struggling. At college, Ariel is befriended by Ben (Gregg Sulkin) who seems to be an obsessive volatile stalker. Dana is befriended by Ben's stepfather Adam (Paul Johansson) who seems to be a nice guy at the widowers' support group. Cameron (Richard Karn) is the brother of Dana's late husband Jack. Ariel is suspicious of Adam as he gets closer to her mother.This is a perfectly Lifey Lifetime movie. There are women in danger and scary threats are lurking behind every male character. It's all very lifeless with a tired tension running through the movie. There is a nice misdirection throughout but the movie does not take advantage of it. It should be ramping up to a great action thriller but it flatlines into bland TV movie of the week.

This is definitely one of the best lifetime movies I have ever seen. The basic plot is about a teenage girl, Ariel (played by Emily Osment), whose life is turned upside down by her mother's new boyfriend poisoning her mother with wellness tea. Most Lifetime movies star third-rate actors, poor editing and a bad script. This definitely follows the lifetime formula however, Paul Johansson really makes this movie great. Unlike most Lifetime actors, Johansson is able to act as a believable boyfriend while being the perfect amount of creepy. The concept of wellness tea also makes this movie better than others. This is one of the most unusual ways of death that I have ever seen in a lifetime movie. A Daughter's Nightmare is my family's favorite movie and definitely worth watching.

*** mild spoilers *** Others have noted the plot hole re: the communication between the two female leads, and I'll add that the second funeral felt... surreal. I got the impression that the characters felt that way as well, and maybe the actors did too. Maybe everyone did.Despite a few flaws, this movie never lost my interest. The ending wasn't quite as interesting as the first 3/4 of it, but that's a small complaint. The casting was good, even including Al Borland. I liked the varied kinds of personalities on display here. Life is like that. We're all different. The story didn't seem to mind, so neither did I.I think the one thing I would have definitely changed is to think through the plot a couple more times and patch up the holes somehow. Aside from that it was pretty good. Emily's turned into a lovely young woman, and Victoria Pratt is a gorgeous not-quite-as-young woman! The men seemed to be into their roles, and I enjoyed the shifting sense of who was messed up here and the increasingly panicked discovery of what was happening.The chemistry seemed real all around -- with the exception of the two parents. It seemed to take poor Dana forever to wake up -- and I don't mean just physically. Maybe her daughter got her dad's smarts. :-/There's nothing terribly new here, so it's not a must-see, but it's an enjoyable watch.

A recently widowed woman meets up with a recent widower and soon becomes ill. What's going on here? The guy seems to be a complete lunatic feeding her his magic herbal tea to make her better.They met due to her daughter meeting his stepson who is slowly being poisoned by the stepfather. The stepfather never raises his voice and is a male nurse to the bargain.He continues to wreak havoc in the woman's life and causes trouble so that he can be left alone with the woman and continue his actions.The acting is good here but plot leaves a lot to be desired.By the way, this lunatic had been married before and you know how those nuptials ended. Of course, it is shown that his father was apparently doing the same exact thing to his mother.