Hall Pass Nightmare

I thought it was above average LMN movie to be honest. Andrea Bowen plays the bored sexless housewife who of course still madly loves her husband who seems to be too involved with his work (medical equipment salesman) and sports on TV than making love to his bored and neglected wife.

So. CarrIe (Bowen) has two besties/coworkers who seem to be a bit naughty.. On a girls' night in Beth tells the other two about the hall pass thing, which apparently has saved a number of marriages. It involves a one time only cheating on the spouse to help spruce up the marriage. Carrie dismisses it. But when all three go on a conference trip, in the hotel bar Carrie notices her teen idol Dante from her favourite band. So the other two girls see the opportunity for Carrie to use her hall pass and leave her with him. After a number of drinks and seemingly interesting conversation with Dante he tries to seduce her, but as they're in a heated passionate kiss, Carrie comes to her senses and rejects him. This is as far as I'm going to say not to spoil the movie, altough a number of the contributors already have.

I just have one message for one contributor who thought the title was off-putting Hall Pass Nightmare. A hall pass has nothing to do with high school or anything like that. It's an expression like getting the green light etc. Or other expressions with other meanings such as ghosted or catfished etc.

One other thing which I found to be the only unrealistic thing in the movie was in the bar scene where Dante tries to pick up a woman who's waiting for her partner. Now a celebrity fighting in public would in real life get into a heap lot of trouble. But here he beats on the woman's partner with patrons just looking on and the couple do not press charges. That was the movie's downfall to me.

Anyway I thought the movie was good. No one cheated on anyone for a change as for LMN movies goes. Andrea did a great job. Matt Magnusson overdid his part. Justin the hubby reminded me of Dick Van Dyke not facially but in movie characters. I'll give this one a seven.

First reaction: well at least it wasn't another naughty teacher movie. When I saw the thumbnail on my tv's guide, I wasn't really going to watch it bc I can't stand the teacher/student movies. Just ick and it's never treated as gross when it's a female teacher and a male student. But a review site I read had the synopsis, so once I realized that's not what it was, I decided to watch. That said, the title is terrible. It makes sense if they were teachers, but if I was thinking about having a freebie on my husband (which I am not), it wouldn't be called that. It's been years, but I think I remember Ross and Rachel having a similar "pass," but the name escapes me.

I think it's possible to have fame and be relatively low key, but this guy was the worst. The guy from His Killer Fan pulled it off better if you ask me. As another contributor said, he had a groupie in his bed the same night Carrie turned him down, so what gives? They honestly didn't spend enough time together, in my opinion, for his obsession to make sense. Even in a Lifetime movie. As bad as it sounds, it would have made sense if they slept together and she rebuffed him. They just made out in the hallway. It almost would have helped if they pulled another Lifetime trope and just had her remind him of a long lost love or something. There's nothing about Carrie that shows why he even approached her. She's not "letting loose" or anything at all. I guess maybe it was her admittance that she used to be a superfan, but even still,

Also, the opening scene sort of bothered me bc of how the 911 call played out. Now, I'm for sure not victim blaming, but I am writer blaming...in these movies, characters never name the person harming them when given the opportunity. In the opening scene, the ex-gf knows who is attacking her but only tells the dispatcher "a man." It doesn't sound natural at all given that we already know this guy is going to be a villain. That's just a pet peeve I have.

I felt for her husband. I mean, the movie just....is. There have been better versions of this and this one feels like filler. Not even sure if it's been on again since the premiere.

How Andrea Bowen was casted for this role makes absolutely no sense. She has too be the most frumpy looking actress in any LMN movie. To try and make us believe some "rock star" Dante is obsessed with her is laughable. And I wouldn't want to buy any medical equipment from her totally clueless dopey husband. And what was the shower scene with her washing all the filth off of herself after a couple of kisses she had with the acoustic rock star? That was pathetic. The whole movie went from bad to worse. The complete clueless, goofball husband was just over the top. He also went from bad to worse. 2 stars for comedic value.