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A Lifetime movie that’s had a considerable amount of effort put into it is a rarity. The Girl with No Name, directed by Jeff Hare, is just that. It is still a Lifetime movie, though, and it comes with the usual hallmarks of it: corny acting, animated characters, a quick resolution, and a very amateurish plot. What works here is the twists and turns, and in this article we’re mainly going to discuss that.

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Crime podcast host Fiona Michelson finds herself trapped in a basement. She’s obviously been abducted, and we need to know how (and why) that happened. So we cut to a week earlier, as we see Fiona Michelson returning to her hometown to celebrate her parents, Barry and Cecily’s fortieth anniversary. The party’s at the Holt Vineyard hotel, whose owner, Marcus, warmly welcomes them. From...

Hey there, Lifetime movie fans! It’s time for another wild movie titled My Two Husbands. Jeff Hare’s 2024 film revolved around an evil man, Stefan, solely motivated by greed for money. Stefan was the kind of person who would go to any lengths to satisfy his greed. In the film, Stefan forces his wife, Brooke, to marry a wealthy man named Dane so that she could take away Dane’s wealth. Stefan even murdered Dane’s ex-wife, Maureen so that Brooke had a better chance to inherit the wealth. While everyone believed Maureen’s death was due to a robbery gone wrong, the truth was something else. And then came Dane’s daughter, Eliza, who suspected foul play and decided to investigate her mother’s suspicious murder. Eliza also investigated her father’s new wife as she had her doubts about her. So the question here: Will Eliza be...

Vanguard will release the exotic romantic comedy Bitter/Sweet, starring Kip Pardue and Thai actress Mamee Nakprasit, on DVD on May 24.

Kip Pardue and Mamee Nakprasit fall for each other in the romantic comedy Bitter/Sweet.

The 2009 movie tells the tale of American executive and coffee expert Brian Chandler (Pardue, Stag Night) who is sent to Thailand by his coffee mogul boss (James Brolin, Capricorn One) to inspect a crop for purchase. Upon arrival, Brian meets Bangkok PR executive Ticha (Nakprasit) who takes care of Thailand’s glamorous multi-talented diva Tata Young (played by herself). Though each has a love life of of his or her own, Brian and Ticha’s journey leads them from the cosmopolitan bustle of Bangkok to the picturesque coffee plantations of Krabi and to the slow realization that they were made for each other.

Written and directed by Jeff Hare, Bitter/Sweet picked up a...

‘Bitter Sweet' , a Thai-American co-production, with a big cast from both countries, will have its North American premiere at the 42nd Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival. American director Jeff Hare won awards for two of his earlier films at this festival, and hopes it will be a hat-trick with this movie, which was shot entirely in Thailand. First-time producer, Bangkok-based Swiss businessman Urs Brunner ,is targetting both the festival and commercial circuit, inspired by ‘Slumdog Millionaire.'...

The publicity teams behind Warner Bros. Pictures' "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Walt Disney Pictures' "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe," Warner Independent's "Good Night, and Good Luck", Columbia Pictures' "Memoirs of a Geisha" and 20th Century Fox's "Walk the Line" have been nominated for the Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Award, which will be handed out at the 43rd annual ICG Publicists Awards in March. ABC leads the showmanship nominees in the television category, with union publicists who worked on the networks' "Grey's Anatomy" and "Lost" grabbing two of the five spots. Other nominees include those who worked on CBS' "Without a Trace", UPN's "Veronica Mars" and NBC's "My Name Is Earl". Nominees for the Les Mason Award, which recognizes a publicist whose work reflects the highest professional standards, are DreamWorks' Sharon Black, Warner Bros.' Jeff Hare, PMK/HBH's Pat Kingsley, independent Tim Menke and Warner Bros.' Mary Hunter.

The Palm Beach International Film Festival will launch April 14 with the world premiere of When Do We Eat?, a comedy about a Sedar directed by Salvador Litvak and starring Jack Klugman, Michael Lerner, Ben Feldman and Lesley Ann Warren. The tenth annual festival, which runs through April 21, will screen over 150 films, including 11 world premieres. Led by exec director Hal Axler, the festival will conclude with an awards ceremony and the film Checking Out, directed by Jeff Hare.