4/10
TV movie with badly hidden normative values
15 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Standard run of the mill "Texan" movie, the lead overacts arrogant and lovely which makes a mockery out of it (annoyed she isn't getting larger roles?) while all except two other roles are underperformed; Carolyn McCormick (Grace/mother of lead) and Michael Rose (the family lawyer). There will be a twist or two, but because the acting is so over the top it's semi exposed before it happens. The plot mostly keeps on familiar ground and uses themes that has been used over and over and over and over... ...again. Effects are low budget and the logical gaps of events are sometimes high. The camera work is somewhat decent at times and salvages some of the story. Using pauses or silence better could have resulted in a more suspensefilled atmosphere. If you are a young girl who likes horses, spends her time in a stable and likes mystery stories this might be a good watch. If else it might be worth multitasking to at best.

*Movie runining spoilers ahead A run of the mill regressive normative story, the helper did it! But wait, the ... did it - two flies at once. Much justification is spent on portraying shameful behaviour of the farm owners as correct and good, while none is put on or really explored into the perp or how that person was raised/the bonds that knit her to the family. Resulting in a very one sided story.
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