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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Familiar faces are wheeled out in this standard TV Rendell-esque suspense drama.The actors act their parts but you get the feeling that in the UK there are only about twenty people in the whole country who want to do telly work. When every new drama, every new story, and every new idea features the same old faces it diminishes the impact of anything you watch. It's an incestuous revolving door of repetitiveness which gets old pretty quick.It doesn't help this story that by the early 2000s, TV audiences had begun to move on from these Hallmark-style suspenseful tele-dramas and were starting to catch on to prime-time reality TV and mind-numbing game shows. (The golden age of this type of clichéd nail-biter was the 90s!) It's an uneventful story so most of the time is focused on the drippy dialogue of people complaining and sulking... which would be OK if you wanted to hear what they had to say!Emma and Alex work in some fancy business together. She's a misery-guts and he's an idiot. Along comes weirdo Donna to stir up the past and make things awkward for everyone.It's a reasonable premise for a good yarn but it's dragged out painfully - especially the last half hour.Small parts for Nerys Hughes and John Woodvine are welcome but the shows only real star is awesome Lisa Millett who plays the suspicious and cheeky secretary, Caroline.It's not terrible but it also doesn't really stand the test of time, either.

and the secret is alluded to,even telegraphed a bit too early on for my taste.that sort takes away from one avenue of suspense.the rest of the story is fairly predictable,though it has a few minor surprises.i found it actually quite depressing.i even felt it had a bit of an oppressive feel to it.the synopsis on the back of the DVD cover makes it seem much more compelling and dramatic than it actually is.i mostly thought it was boring.maybe you have to be in a certain mood or frame of mind to appreciate it.if so,i clearly wasn't in the right mood or frame of mind.i just know i was glad when it was over.i don't see myself watching this movie again.for me,The Secret would have been best left untold.4/10

This is an English TV movie made by the BBC and it is clearly made on a limited budget. Nevertheless it is very well acted by the three main characters and holds your interest until the end, which is a slight disappointment. The other issue was that I clearly felt I had seen it before (which I hadn't), Two small children murder another child and they are locked away until being released years later with new identities. One has married and raised a family, the other has had a disjointed life. She traces the married woman and cons her way into a job within the family business of the married woman. Slowly she ensnares the husband (who has no knowledge of his wife's past) and he moves in with the single woman. How this is resolved I leave to your viewing of the movie, The version I saw (on Hallmark) ran about 95 minutes. I think the two hour version may tie up several loose ends involving the more minor roles of the married woman's father and the business secretary both played by former British "names" but wasted in this version.

What happens when your worst nightmare shows up, and steals your whole life, night sleep and husband. If you kill her, everyone will discover the unbelievable truth? An impossible situation unbearable also for your husband and kids. A situation worse than in "Fatal attraction".A great story about hiding the sickening truth, trying to start all over again, though never able to forget - told believable, with nerve and almost like it was a true story. If you like haunting films with underlying terror and great acting - see it!