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Marriage of Lies

  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
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April Bowlby in Marriage of Lies (2016)
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A woman accused of being responsible for her husband's disappearance begins to uncover secrets about the man she married as she attempts to prove her innocence.A woman accused of being responsible for her husband's disappearance begins to uncover secrets about the man she married as she attempts to prove her innocence.A woman accused of being responsible for her husband's disappearance begins to uncover secrets about the man she married as she attempts to prove her innocence.

  • Director
    • Danny J. Boyle
  • Writers
    • Brian D. Young
    • Matt Hamilton
  • Stars
    • April Bowlby
    • Corin Nemec
    • Virginia Williams
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.0/10
    600
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Danny J. Boyle
    • Writers
      • Brian D. Young
      • Matt Hamilton
    • Stars
      • April Bowlby
      • Corin Nemec
      • Virginia Williams
    • 18User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    April Bowlby
    April Bowlby
    • Rachel
    Corin Nemec
    Corin Nemec
    • Gus
    Virginia Williams
    Virginia Williams
    • Jessica
    Zac Garred
    Zac Garred
    • Roper
    • (as Zachary Garred)
    Madison Iseman
    Madison Iseman
    • Kinna
    Ryan Bittle
    Ryan Bittle
    • Dylan
    Brody Hutzler
    Brody Hutzler
    • Tye
    Marcia Ann Burrs
    Marcia Ann Burrs
    • DeeDee
    Jimmy Deshler
    Jimmy Deshler
    • Billy
    Faith Graham
    Faith Graham
    • Ella
    Monique A. Green
    Monique A. Green
    • Brittany
    • (as Monique Green)
    John Griffin
    John Griffin
    • Jack
    Laura Jean Salerno
    Laura Jean Salerno
    • Alexa
    Warren Sweeney
    Warren Sweeney
    • Principal Turner
    Eric Scott Woods
    Eric Scott Woods
    • Trafford
    • Director
      • Danny J. Boyle
    • Writers
      • Brian D. Young
      • Matt Hamilton
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    mgconlan-1

    Surprisingly good Kafka-esque thriller

    "Marriage of Lies," last Saturday's Lifetime "world premiere," turned out to be a surprisingly good suspense thriller, helped by the fact that it contains no openly violent scenes until the very end, one that puts its heroine into a Kafka-like peril that's frightening but plausible and keeps us identifying with her throughout. The heroine is Rachel Wilson (April Bowlby), who seems to be living a nice life in a small town with her husband Tye (Brody Hutzler) and their daughter Ella (Faith Graham). Then Tye suddenly disappears one morning and Rachel spends the next two days rather desultorily looking for him, including stopping by the high school where he's a teacher and athletic coach and trying to get information out of the students in his classes, including one young woman who definitely has a crush on him. Two days after he disappears, Rachel reports him to the police as missing, and the investigation spirals out of control as the police — Detective Roper (Zachary Garred) in particular (he's the partner of Gus, played by Corin Nemec, an older, more Clint Eastwood-esque cop who's more skeptical of the obvious conclusion that Rachel did something to her husband) — decide that Tye must have met with foul play and Rachel must be the guilty party. The people in this small town — who, like those in virtually all movie small towns, make it a point of getting into each other's business and gossiping about each other — decide Rachel is guilty even before the cops do, though one has to wonder throughout this whole movie, "Guilty of what?" (Apparently "Presumed Guilty" was the film's working title, and it might have been a better one for it.) There's no trace of what happened to Tye, no hint that he's either living or dead — certainly there's no body, and no one has any idea what might have happened to the body if Rachel (or someone else) murdered him. Rachel finds herself beset by her next-door neighbor from hell, town gossip DeeDee (Marcia Ann Burrs), as well as a freelance videographer who (like most of these "types" in movies) wears a Walter Winchell-style hat and seems to be modeling himself after the great gossip columnist of old, and whose schtick is to ambush Rachel and shove his camera in her face, demanding that she tell "the truth" about whatever is going on when she has no idea of what is going on. Rachel's only confidante is her long-time friend Jessica (Virginia Williams), who works at the local bar and who eagerly joins in the search for Tye, alive or dead. Once she realizes that the cops suspect her of either knocking off her husband or arranging her disappearance, Rachel hires an attorney, Dylan (Ryan Bittle, an unusually hunky actor for a Lifetime good guy), with whom she has an off-balance relationship because she's not convinced he thinks she's innocent and he tells her that doesn't matter; his job is to represent her interests whether she did anything criminal or not. "Marriage of Lies" isn't a great movie — it doesn't even reach the quality level of some of the Lifetime social-comment movies like "For the Life of a Child" or "Restless Virgins" — but on its own terms it's well made and well worth watching. Brian D. Young's script is coherent, relatively plausible and refreshingly unmelodramatic. Danny J. Boyle's direction is finely honed and refreshingly gimmick-free, and the acting, particularly April Bowlby's all-important performance as Rachel, is solidly professional and genuinely moving throughout.
    3bipeter

    oh my!

    "I don´t know"? "I love you to"! drinking white wine in the kitchen, with the best friend x 100 a child who always sleep and don´t know anything, about whats going on. Breathe a lot every time they have said a phrase(over dramatic). Breathe in their cups and glasses when they end their sentence. The movie will give a morale, eventually (nonsense): "you have a meaning until you get a new one". Annoying bad played movie. "Presumed crap"!
    geoffox-766-418467

    Ugh

    Yet another ridiculous LMN movie with terrible writing and terrible acting. Leading lady is so bland she put me to sleep. A plain Jane look to her with blank expressions the usual long straight boring hair. Usually wearing jeans. No color to her look or personality. Where do they get these drama drolls? However, it was the plot that was the culprit in this not so tense melodrama. No names here, not worth the time. Probably a better radio program soap drama. You don't have to look at the actors. All about a disappearing husband and wifey is accused of murdering him. So we spend most of the movie listening to her say she's innocent. But nobody really cares. Including this viewer. Her acting left me cold and I didn't really care what happens to her. Will not reveal plot ending. I am going to force you to watch this like I was.
    2screenwriter-972-149612

    A very generous '2'

    The production values in this film are almost at a high school level. Pay attention to the detectives' 'office'. It's obviously an empty room with a few card tables and a computer. There's even a lone large target on a wall to make it look 'official'. Ditto the bar which is probably a nearby motel's watering hole. There's awful stuff like this all over the movie. I swear the final scene was shot on a high school auditorium stage. It was laughable. And the plot? Ridiculous. The reactions to revelations? There are none. Here's an example, the wife of the missing person goes to the high school where he works. The principal informs her that her husband didn't show up for work and that the principal just assumed that he was too ill to come in. After the wife says that her husband was feeling fine the principal says, 'tell him we hope he's feeling better real soon.' There's nonsense like that all through this thing. Some of the acting is so bad that you'll think it's intentional. The junior DA and the school janitor are particularly awful.

    So, why not a '1'? Because the lead actress has stunning eyes. And that's all this bomb has going for it.
    dmichaelsKD

    complaint of bland actress

    It was called good acting, the actress was acting bland and not emotional because her husband had her drugged up on the anti-depressants. She was doing that on purpose to act like a person on anti-depressants.

    One thing I did find hysterical about the writing though is in one scene she says oh I can't drink because I am on anti-depressants but she is drinking wine in like every other scene of the movie.

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    • Trivia
      While Jessica and Rachel are having drinks at the bar where Jessica works there was baseball from the 70's on the tv screen
    • Goofs
      When Rachel gets up the first morning Ty is missing she tells her daughter to get ready because she has errands to run, When she gets to Ty's school her daughter is not with her.

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    • Release date
      • July 16, 2017 (Spain)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Presumed
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Cartel Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 42m(102 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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