The Girl Next Door (I) (1998 TV Movie)
3/10
Should Have Been Called "Not Worth Watching"
22 September 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This is easily one of those movies you watch because you're simply bored. The beginning was decent, acting was sub-par, but watchable. But as the story continued, nothing progressed. The plot-line was completely empty and void of anything special. It was nothing but cliché and predictable.

Basically this girl named Annie meets the "man of her dreams" (a dirty cop) who is married with a couple kids. He talks and seduces Annie into killing his wife and then filling in as her replacement. Annie, being young and dramatically naive, falls into the trap and becomes the children's step-in-mother (the cop and Annie do not get married). Most of the movie is flashbacks from Annie's point of view while telling the FBI exactly what happened and how she was fooled into killing the cop's wife. The end of the movie was nothing special and lacked any climax. It pretty much went exactly as you'd think - the house was wired by the FBI to catch the cop talking about the murder, he was caught, and they were both thrown in jail. The cop got life, and Annie got 10 years on second degree murder.

The entire movie was, in my opinion, a waste. I was hoping the last three minutes would give some dramatic twist or flashback to what really happened... but nothing. You're just left with Annie and one of the FBI agents having the most boring, unreal conversation while she's in jail.
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