The Good Mistress

With no thanks to the leading lady Annie Heise, not to be confused with Anne Hesch also a bad actress. This one is as boring and uninteresting to watch as the other one. From the beginning to the surprise ending she sort of wandered from set to set and obviously attempting to frame a guy she slept with that turned out to be her best friend's husband. As a stupid amateur sleuth, she screws everything up and makes one mistake after another. The police should have arrested her for interfering with their work.

But no, this bimbo keeps getting in everybody's hair, drugging the guy she suspects, not informing her best friend of her husband's infidelity and generally snooping in everybody's business. Meantime, she supposed to be working. All of us are hoping she gets knocked off.

For a Lifetime movie, this was pretty good. The main reason is that hardly any scenes went by where I got mad at how stupid something was. The plot was decent and the acting was decent. Anne Heise was very good. In most movies, when someone gets clobbered they get up again with no harm done. That happens often. In this movie it only happened once. Amazing!

We all know Lifetime. For some of us it's like watching The Comedy Channel.

The formula is always the same: young, attractive people you've never seen before in one of the two or three plots Lifetime uses.

This one, The Good Mistress from 2014 is one of the pack. Sandy Cooper (Anne Heise), a recovering alcoholic on five years probation, who has a beautiful figure and beautiful hair, moves to a small town and takes a job at her best friend's (Kendra Anderson) law firm. She meets a guy (Antonio Cupo) right away and sleeps with him on the first date (if you don't count him running into her at the coffee place a date).

Just one small problem, which she finds out later. Her best friend is married to him. It gets worse.

Okay. First of all, why she would take an apartment with that sleaze landlord is beyond me. Second, she meets her best friend's husband who asks her out on a date? Sing one verse of "Small World, Isn't It." And of course there is the ubiquitous parking garage scene. We all know how women like to go into them alone.

At the last minute something elevates this film from a D to a C-. And for Lifetime, that's not bad.

I agree the storyline is much over done, movies with similar story lines but these movies would not be successful ifs its not hitting home base, truth is this happens so often in reality and i'm sure alot of times women wish they could be like Karen. I thought the acting was pretty good, kept me at my screen not wondering off to the fridge like i usually do.

In the opening scene, an attractive blonde is pursued and killed by a camera-shy assailant. We quickly learn this occurs in the desolate woods of a small town called Shelter Hills. Coincidently, another pretty blonde arrives in town, from Michigan, pulled over by cute officer Jeremy Guilbaut (as Grady Williams). Intending to start a new life, former alcohol abuser Annie Heise (as Sandy Cooper) maimed a lad while drunk-driving and was deprived of her family fortune in a resulting lawsuit. However, she has accepted responsibility and wants to stay off the sauce. A paralegal, Ms. Heise gets a job courtesy of her old school-mate Kendra Anderson (as Karen), who also took to Shelter Hills. Her tall, dark and handsome husband Antonio Cupo (as David Waterford) is running for county supervisor. This is strictly production-line TV movie story-telling, from director Terry Ingram and the crew. What's "Good" is that is concludes in under 85 minutes. Heise doesn't qualify as a "Mistress" and the fact that a character chooses to date her in the town's most public places – including the local coffee shop and bar – is ludicrous.

**** The Good Mistress (2/15/14) Terry Ingram ~ Annie Heise, Antonio Cupo, Kendra Anderson, Jeremy Guilbaut