Fatal Reunion (2005) (V)

Director:

George Erschbamer

Writers:

Jeff Barmash (writer)
George Erschbamer (writer)

Release Date:

4 November 2006 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Eleniak is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on. |

Plot Keywords:

Classmate | Reunion | Impalement | Animal In Cast Credits | Stalker

Cast

Erika Eleniak	...	Jessica Hartley Landers
David Millbern	...	Russell Landers
Michael Bergin	...	Marcus Declan
Juliet Landau	...	Lisa Calders
Ashley Hale	...	Katie Landers
Nathan Tipple	...	Joshua Landers
Barbara Fixx	...	Rosemary
Lucia Walters	...	Claire
Sonya Salomaa	...	Lynne
Kwesi Ameyaw	...	Sam Watson
Debbie Podowski	...	Callie (as Deb Podowski)
Lee Jay Bamberry	...	Jason - Security
Stephen Chang	...	Kendo Master (as Stephen M.D. Chang)
Michael St. John Smith	...	John Slayter
Anne Openshaw	...	Nicole Kingsley

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Insight Film Studios

Goofs:

Continuity: After the car window is broken, when the woman runs back into the house the door is unlocked since she is able to get inside without delay. She possibly closed it (this was not clear) but did not lock it. A few seconds later someone is trying to get in. The push button for the lock is shown as being in (locked) and the person is not able to get in right away.

Could anyone care less?

On occasion, even the big mega-buck films, with A-list stars and 9-figure budgets, have to contain ridiculously silly omissions to further the plot.

But it seems that these "Lifetime," stories, with far from A-list-staffed personnel, do this about 95% of the time.

Here, about a hundred or so words of clarification and conversation between the two leads could have precluded all of this nonsense. Of course, then the contact between Laura and her sociopathic former classmate would have been precluded, and the story would have ended after 15 minutes or so. Incidentally, if this had occurred, and they would have just shown a test pattern for the last 100 minutes, it would have been about as entertaining.

Russell is a hard-working ad executive/husband, and wife Jessica feels he's cheating from things she has heard, from her stilted observations, and inferences drawn from his erratic, often late work schedule.

But for cripes sake, a one-minute conversation between them, and the fore-mentioned 100 words, could have informed her of the fact that he was on the verge of concluding a deal which would have them all set for life, necessitating long hours and occasioning dining with an attractive woman (about which she'd heard from one of her equally-shallow friends).

Even this vacuous woman should have understood that. Hubby could have offered a few words of explanation of his own volition, but frankly, the hot -shot ad exec pretty much matched her in the "vacuous" department.

So enter the sociopathic former classmate, and his equally (or more) sociopathic companion, and you now have twice the number of vacuous personages on-screen, a story which a challenged 12-year-old could predict, and a whole slew of characters about whom one couldn't care less.

(Incidentally, after Jessica initially meets Marcus, and he - purporting to be a big-deal real estate mogul, invites her to dinner - where she chortles about this upcoming assignation with her friends, the dialog here is something which would make the conversations among the nerdy teens in the old beach blanket flicks seem like something highly-intellectual by comparison. And the inevitable brandishing of various weaponry at the conclusion could have been culled from any number of Lifetime "sociopath-menaces-innocent-family" past presentations.)