Very well executed

Truly Dreadful Film

Purely Joyful Movie!

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

***SPOILERS*** They were young and in love but not all there in the head especially the girl Emily Yates, Paloma Kwiatkowski, as they decided to take a lovers leap off the bridge and end it all as we see at the start of the film. Why did these two young persons Gary Smith, Jedidiah Goodacre, and his 16 year old girlfriend Emily with everything to live for do themselves in at such a young age? The reason is simple in that because all they had to look forward to in life was for was a long stretch behind bars in a road rage murder and assisted murder conviction waiting for them back home in court! It's Emily's mom Jill Yates, Lindsay Hartley who refuses to accept her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend Gary's death and since the bodies were never recovered Jill feels that they faked their suicides and planned to start a new lives together somewhere in the "Sky Country" of Montana as husband & wife raising and selling cattle to the public! As Jill soon finds out she was half right in her assumptions. With the help of private investigator Al Jennings, Jay Brazeau, Jill finds out that it was bad boy Gary who not only planned the whole thing but is holding Emily hostage by keeping her comatose and off her meds to get Jill not to only put out for him, Gary has this thing about older women, but pay him some 25 grand as ransom.***SPOILERS*** With her wimpy and scared of his own shadow but well built, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, 6 foot 4 inch 230 pound live in boyfriend Connor, Dan Payne, not willing to do anything but leave it to the out of touch local police who by now dropped the case. Jill goes on her own to save her daughter Emily risking both her and her daughters lives whom Gary and his brother a member of the police department Ritchie, James Pizzinato, are planning to murder if she doesn't come through with their demands. Gary despite being a 1st class mountain man gets himself together with his brother Ritchie lost in the woods trying to track down Jill and her daughter Emily who escaped from his confinement and trying to get back to civilization. Being a poor shot Gary guns down Ritchie, who looks nothing like the two women he's chasing, by mistake and then finishes him off to keep Ritchie from spending the rest of his life, when he's caught, behind bars with every convict there looking to get a piece, in Ritchie being an ex-policeman, of him. As for Gary he ends up like he started at the beginning of the movie in trying to fake his death by falling off a cliff to his death, after Jill whacked him, and this time cracking his skull on the rocks below!

Annoying leading lady Lindsay Hartley snoops around for her lost daughter. She's got these bug eyes, treats her boy friend like crap, goes against almost everyone to carry out her purpose. But she fails. Gets caught by the her daughter's boyfriend and then I just turned it off as I was sick of watching this silly nonsense. No acting laurels in this one. I just had not feelings for anyone in this. Maybe the boyfriend who Hartley was terrible to named Connor. He tried to help but she was really lousy to him. I hope when the film ends, he is gone. I'll never know as I don't want to know how this ends, believe me. I see I need more lines about this. Hard to find anything else to critique. Only to repeat what I already said about Hartley not being good and rest of cast at the mercy of a bad script and not too good acting.

A young couple chain themselves to a light cement block and hold hands on a bridge, overlooking some dangerous water. Apparently, they jump. Six months earlier, we meet sourpuss Paloma Kwiatkowski (as Emily Yates). The 18-year-old college freshman is sullen most of the time, leading her lawyer mother Lindsay Hartley (as Jill) to believe Ms. Kwiatkowski may be off her medication. Kwiatkowski is depressed and has an aversion to water (or, she did, previous to the opening teaser). One thing that we see cheering Kwiatkowski up is bad blond boyfriend Jedidiah Goodacre (as Gary Smith). A handsome young security officer, Mr. Goodacre works better than medication. When they meet, Goodacre turns off Ms. Hartley with his bad table manners...Directed by Paul Shapiro and written by Stephen Lyons, this is a very predictable "Lifetime" TV drama. They handle the assignment successfully. The basic plot, which has been recycled many times, reinforces the demographic viewers' perception that a daughter's boyfriend is usually bad news. To compare and contrast, mother Hartley is given handsome new bed-partner Dan Payne (as Connor Hodges). The younger couple steal the show by offering a nice variety of nasty, sullen, moody, pouty and scowling looks. Hartley is out to there. Of the supporting players, police officer brother James Pizzinato (as Ritchie Smith) shows a good range; when he over-telegraphs, it's due to a lingering camera. The movie is full of stupidity, but it is fun to watch.***** Dying to Be Loved (4/16/16) Paul Shapiro ~ Lindsay Hartley, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Jedidiah Goodacre, Dan Payne

A lot of plot twists in this absorbing Lifetime film. An emotionally unbalanced teenager suffering from depression finds a boyfriend who is even more off-the-wall than she is.Her mother, an attorney, is living with a guy who she hopes to wed shortly.Gary, the girl's boyfriend, reacts to a road rage incident by shooting to death the guy in the other car and he is convicted of murder. How he was allowed to stay out of jail until sentencing was the one major flaw to me in this engrossing film.Gary and his depressed girlfriend supposedly jump off a bridge to their deaths, but her mother, the attorney, has her doubts and hires a private investigator to pursue the matter. The results are more than what anyone bargained for. Gary's brother is a police officer but turns out to be up to his neck in this engrossing thriller.Connor, the mother's boyfriend didn't exactly do the greatest of acting here.