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Karen (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and her family relocate to Washington for her husband's new job and falls in love with her new house which has large, impressive windows. However, this new dream life quickly morphs into a nightmare when the looming presence of her neighbor, Lisa (Jenn Lyon), is all that cascades into those large panes of glass.

At first, Lisa seems like a promising friend. But soon, Karen begins catching her in bizarre lies and copycat behavior. Karen confides in Lisa that she lost a baby, so Lisa immediately makes up a story that she also lost a child - even buying an identical version of the necklace Karen wears to commemorate her lost child. Lisa lies about various health conditions, claiming she had lupus and cancer. She even copies Karen's car, her clothes and her desire to become a real estate agent.

Then, when Karen grows uncomfortable with Lisa's behavior, Lisa's tactics escalate. Lisa phones in false complaints that Karen is neglecting her son in an attempt to have him removed from her care. She even files for a restraining order against Karen that means Karen can't even hang out in her own backyard without violating it.

In the most dramatic move of all, she falsely accuses Karen of trying to mow her down with her car. This leads to a trial where Karen could have been convicted with attempted murder due to Lisa's lies and fabricated victimization. Instead, it results in her acquittal.

There's no murder for a change in this Lifetime thriller based on a real story. The subject around 'False victims' is interesting. I never heard of it so it prompted me to read about. Who says Lifetime thrillers isn't informative! It's quite watchable and intriguing, however the plot gets a bit thin towards the end and the court scene should have had more punch. The actress who plays the 'false victim' was very good and quite sinister.

I loved this movie right up until the last 20 minutes. I couldn't wait to see how it ended but was very disappointed. And yes, as another reviewer said, our legal system does not work the way the movie portrayed. It was laughable.

I've seen a lot of Lifetime movies. They are hit and miss. "The Neighbor in the Window" is somewhere in the middle. It was an okay watch. It's just that there was nothing that special about it. The cast is fine. They all do a nice job. It's just that material isn't that hot. I don't want to bash this movie because I did kind of like it. It's that I wanted more than I got.

We moved to north of Seattle and ended up buying a home in a lovely neighborhood. We lived on a dead end private drive. Home was only 4 years old and we were the 3rd buyer. All the homes around us were original owners. First day in the house we received a knock at the door and it was the neighbor invited us to their little eclipse party. It was a very keeping up with the Jones neighborhood. They always used to have lavish parties just to impress everyone. All of the lady's in the neighborhood gossiped and all hung out together. They called the previous owners weird and gossiped so much about the neighbors next door who didn't care for the drama. Then we got tired of all the loud parties, so we started not to show up. Then they started to exclude our little 7 year old from playing with all the neighborhood kids. Then came the funny looks. Then we confronted them and it started a big issue in the neighborhood. Then the other neighbor almost hit my kid walking home from the bus stop with her 17 old sister. So I went over and knocked on her door and she wasn't there. Then she came over and said I didn't hit your child and accused me of speeding and said this neighborhood needs speed bumps to slow people like me down.

After that it just got worse and worse. My husband in the snow took our quad out just to zip down the road and let her sit on the back for like 2 mins with full gear on and then they called CPS on us.

They were always drinking, having their kids out at all the parties sometimes till 3 am. We never said one word or called the police. They shined strobe lights through our bedroom window every halloween and Christmas but we were quiet.

Finally we got sick of it and moved under 2 years.... Moved on acerage.

So many of the same events happened to us... Such as my husband confronted her husband and said this needs to stop.

So glad we moved! Feel bad for the 5th owner in a 2013 home.

That was the brief description from experts at the end of the movie about the different kinds of stalkers and how they behave. That was somewhat interesting. Other than that, it was just another typical Lifetime movie with a typical (meaning, predictable) plot.

Oh, and just to nitpick another review here - "lady's" is possessive, not plural.