My Daughter's Secret 2007 Directed by Douglas Jackson
When the bad-news boyfriend (Steve Byers) of 17-year-old Justine (Nina Dobrev) robs the store where her mother, Denise (Jennifer Grant), works, Justine is torn between telling the truth and sending her boyfriend to prison, or keeping the secret from her mother, which soon starts to tear her apart.
Nina Dobrev stars as Justine quiet possible the most stupid character there ever was in any film ever in the history of the world.
Without any build up whatsoever the movie begins with Justine preening herself while her older boyfriend Brent and his brother Reggie impatiently wait for her outside her high school. As they pick her up in a car they have “borrowed”, she babbles on about what they are going to do tonight - suggesting they go watch the latest horror movie. Instead they drive to the Jewellery store that her mother works at and tell her to wait in the car, as a look-out while they go in a rob it. Which she does like a massive…
This movie was kinda stupid but Nina Dobrev playing this girl reminded me about elena on the vampire diaries and how whiny she was and how annoying she was
Wow. This is just some serious level bad acting matched only by bad writing and an implausible script. But the most terrible performances come from the one-two punch of the chick from Vampire Diaries as the titular "Daughter" and the mother played by Celeste from Beverly Hills, 90210.
It's as though the casting director just gave up an hour and a half in. But it's a Lifetime movie so what can you really expect. In fact, this is one of two movies starring Catherine Mary Stewart as a detective (different characters though) called "My _______'s Secret" (the other being 'Neighbor' --- more on that at a later time but that has Xander from Buffy so it's gotta be better.)
Fairly routine Lifetime movie, but gets a solid half-star bump up due to Nina Dobrev (pre-Vampire Diaries) in a lead role.
Nina Dobrev stars as Justine quiet possible the most stupid character there ever was in any film ever in the history of the world.
Without any build up whatsoever the movie begins with Justine preening herself while her older boyfriend Brent and his brother Reggie impatiently wait for her outside her high school. As they pick her up in a car they have “borrowed”, she babbles on about what they are going to do tonight - suggesting they go watch the latest horror movie. Instead they drive to the Jewellery store that her mother works at and tell her to wait in the car, as a look-out while they go in a rob it. Which she does like a massive…
Ein wirklich guter Film ist “Tödliches Geheimnis” nicht. Weder was die schauspielerischen Leistungen angeht, noch was die Umsetzung der Story angeht. Was ein wenig Schade ist, da die Geschichte selbst durchaus Potenzial hat. Die Situation, in die Justine gerät ist nämlich alles andere als angenehm und hat eigentlich sehr viel Raum für großes Gefühlskino und spannende Momente.
Blöd nur wenn die entsprechende Darstellerin nicht in Lage ist dies auch auf die Leinwand zu transportieren und man nicht das Gefühl hat einen spannenden Film zu sehen, sondern sich wie ein Seifenoper fühlt.
Doch an diesem Umstand ist natürlich nicht die Hauptdarstellerin Nina Dobrev (How She Moves, Too Young to Marry) alleine schuld. Regisseur Douglas Jackson (The Ghost, Dead End) zaubert mit…
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