House of Deadly Lies

Housewife Paige Johnson (Katy Breier) has a boy and is concerned about the changes in her husband Michael Johnson (Jon McLaren) especially after inviting her troubled pregnant best friend Joslyn (Leah Jane McKenney) to stay with them since Joslyn has nowhere else to go.

This is a Lifetime movie. It is what it is. It is another Lifetime movie with another toxic guy. Jon McLaren is doing some overacting. It does take some interesting if somewhat unlikely turns. This needs to set up Joslyn more. All the setups are a little thin. There are little holes where things are not explained. I wouldn't call them plot holes as much as plot skips. It's Lifetime.

So stay at home mother takes in her strugling stay at home friend to help her through a tough time which takes many many months. They both don't work, just stay at home all day and do nothing. But they both are victims. Neither of them tries to get a job and contribute to the household expenses. The friend is having a baby at some point and still lives in the house where only husband works, whatever his work is, it puts the food on the table.

But hey, let's make the husband the bad guy, let's make him a crook, yeah, why not. He want the friend to be gone but noooo, the wife wants her to stay and do nothing.

Btw, I would like to know who pays for her hospital bills covering costs of delivering the baby.

Well, it was a really bad movie, a horrible and ridiculeous story.

And I am not even getting into the actig skills.

And one more thing, IMDb requires 600 characters for one reason only, to discourage people from commenting.

The actors really struggle with the dialogue as it's all short sentences and put together in short bursts. It reminds me of a high school play where everyone has their lines written on the backs of their hands for the current scene.

Predictable story line, and fast forwarding ended up getting me to the expected ending in under 30 minutes, which is entirely too long to spend watching this thing.

All minor actors with a few first timers. I'm sure the director/writer is a novice as well as he/she isn't even listed on this page.

That's probably a good thing actually. Deny, deny deny. Not much else to say. 1/10. Not even good practice for first time students out of film school.

There's a reviewer who literally talks about how good the father is... Um... seek help maybe cuz what??? O. O The obviously abusive man is a GOOD MAN?? WILDDDD. Anyway the wife is a doormat, we see that right away because no way would I ever allow some jerk to speak to me that way. The friend is a wet blanket pushover. But then back to the wife when she finds out about her husband STILL somehow horrible. Just a terrible person and friend. Lol. This movie was so bad from the acting to the set up. And the husband was the worst. BTW if you're in a relationship with someone like that and it reminded you of them? Tell someone asap. And get away from them. That man was nuts from the start just from the way he was speaking to his wife.

Both women were entirely too pathetic. If someone had my kid and wouldn't give him to me I'd be calling the cops AFTER I beat the crap out of them. Seriously, who wrote this script??

How do you let a man just snatch money out of your hand?? Why do you even come in with that much money in your hand? Who are these people??

Who goes back?? Why does Jos ask soooo many freaking questionssss as if she had a plan when she had none?? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE??

Dolly rocked. Seriously that old lady got mad crazy and I was here for it. LMFAO. She was not playing around. XD.

The lady at the place they were staying at Maeve? Also awesome.

Why witch instead of witch with a b? So weird!

How was this man dealing with gangs? XD Please. What is happening.

The ending was satisfying though! Lol. Even though they both had black eyes, the ending was just what you want from a Lifetime movie. Good on the main character for keeping the money. Screw all of them. Lol.

Paige Johnson takes in her pregnant friend Joslyn. The two have known each other since high school and Joslyn is going through a rough patch. Paige is married to Michael and together they have a son. Then secrets come to light, which could potentially tear the family apart.

A solid lifetime thriller that is less corny than its kind. It's simply plotted yet gripping and has effective acting especially by Katy Brier who realises her husband isn't what he seems. He's controlling, a rapist and isn't a real estate employee but runs with drug dealers. This type of story is well treaded but this is a strong example.