Simply Perfect

i must have seen a different film!!

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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.

**SPOILER ALERT** The dark secret that's been haunting art collector Alexandra Kent Lambeth, Kristy Swanson,since childhood is to come full crucial when she finally decided to visit her committed mom Evelyn, Jude Beny, at a local sanitarium.Having just divorced her husband Dan Lambeth, Charles Edward Powell, Alexandra decided to start over and move into her empty mother's brownstone. It was there some twenty years ago where Alexandra's Aunt Judith, Danette Mackay, was murdered with her mom Evelyn being the major suspect in her death. Since then Evelyn had completely lost her marbles and was committed to a mental institution never having to stand trial for her crime. What's even more shocking is that little Alexandra witnessed the murder and had that memory totally repressed in her fragile young mind.With all these suppressed memories, after visiting her mother, flooding Alexandra's brain the real killer of Aunt Judith comes out into the open to silence her, as well as Mrs. Kent, forever in order to keep the secret of his crime still secret! A secret that's been hidden in a secret room at the Kent brownstone for some twenty years. That Alexandra has had the key to but never realized it until now!The secrets about the secret of the late Aunt Judith's murder are so many that by the time the movie is finally over a number of other persons who had nothing to do with the secret, including Dan Lambeth, end up dying because of it. Alexandra with the help of her mom's psychiatrist Dr. Mike Stanheight, David Keeley, does in fact uncover the secret. But not until Alexandra gets put on the right track by the kindly and understanding, in him taking all the uncalled for abuse from her, construction worker Ed, Richard Jutras, who knew abut the secret, or the key that uncovered it, all along.***SPOILER***As things turned out the big secret wasn't that big of a secret to begin with in knowing who Aunt Judith's murderer is. Since you could practically spot him as soon as he popped into the movie with his overly and unnatural interest in the entire matter which shouldn't have been any of his business anyway.If the guy just laid low and played innocent, or ignorant, of what was going on all around him he may well have gotten away with it; Aunt Judith, and those who followed her into their graves, murder. That fact, being the busybody that he was, sealed his fate at the end of the film.

This just reminded me of a movie on IFC I recently saw, Leolo.The start of this movie, with an unspeakable act over a bunch of in Italy picked tomatoes, heading for export to the USA (???) actually took place in Montreal as well.I can imagine that after how this Leolo movie started, and the subsequent ICKY consequences of the unspeakable acts of the disgusting Italian picker.... No ONE would ever be willing to refer to Montreal in ANY movie again, ha ha.Just kidding.Anyway, this FORBIDDEN SECRETS movie is not bad at all. Never heard of Kristy Swanson, and she is not bad either.

An okay made for TV movie about a recent divorcée who moves back into her childhood home, where her last memory is the "accidental" drowning death of her aunt. Turns out to be a 'whodunit' and with the limited number of cast, it's not hard to figure out who the guilty party is. Plot moves along fairly quickly. Beautiful filming location in Quebec and it's too bad they don't acknowledge it in the film. Rather, they would like the story set as a generic East Coast U.S. city. My biggest gripe is an obvious spelling mistake during the running of the end credits. The actor who played the psychiatrist is David KEELEY and not David Kelly. I've never seen an on screen typo. Shame on the editor!

Definitely not a run of the mill thriller. Provocative, engaging and intelligent ..these are all the necessary ingredients this film needs to keep the viewer hooked from the first few frames.Kristy Swanson spares no emotion from being expressed on the screen, running the gambit from sadness to anger and unbeguilingly gives fans and viewers the chance for her to show off her raw talent.Very watchable and I am sure her strong character is a real inspiration to women everywhere....standing up for her self against seemingly insurmountable odds. Love to give a spoiler here but see it for your self. Recommended viewing.Have a little chocolate with your popcorn with this film; would work well on a rainy rainy night...nice love scenes, too for Kristy woo hoo :)