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This movie is part of a small franchise of "Wrong Boy Next Door" films. In Lake City, a pretty boy moves into a house after killing the owner, an elderly woman who is a seamstress. He and his partner are up to no good in moving into the vacated home, refurbishing it, then flipping it in a quick sale. The flipper, John Link, has an attraction to the neighbor girl, Katie Foreman, and he thereby becomes the wrong boy next door.
While under house arrest after a series of missteps at school, including cheating, vaping, and hitting her teacher, Ms. Grimes, on the head by throwing a cell phone, Katie has time on her hands to flirt with John. When she rejects him, he goes ballistic.
The best line in the film is spoken by Kathie's mom, a court recorder and a widow, who catches her daughter spying on the boy next door with a new set of binoculars. The mom tells the daughter, "Who are you, Jimmy Stewart?" She then has to explain the joke to her daughter who never saw the film "Rear Window."
A shortcoming of the film is that Katie was not a very likable character, especially in the way that she disrespected her mother. It wasn't until the close of the film that the two characters bond after a harrowing experience with the wrong boy next door. But the mother-daughter bond triumphs in the end, as the characters recognize that "we're going to do it together."
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lavatch 9 May 2020
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5720588/ |
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11-3-2021 12:07:05