Unthinkable (2007 TV Movie) User Reviews

Stop being so stupid and listen to what he tells you

[sol1218 · 6/10 · 3 January 2013]

***SPOILER*** Sticking her nose into her 19 year old son Peter's, Steven Grayhm, personal affairs has lady detective Jamie McDowell, Michelle Forbes, nosiness drives Peter to plan to marry his sweetheart Kelly Shaw, Eve Levesque, less then a month when after the two young lovers met and fell in love. Kelly in testing Peter's love for her tried, by spilling a glass of beer in his face, to incite her ex-boyfriend Ray Rankin, Graham Kosakoski, to get into a bar room brawl with Peter at the "Copper Penny" where he works as a bartender. With Peter not falling for Kelly's act she in a huff leaves him there at the bar alone as she takes off in a taxi for home to cool off. It's later that she's found dead there from a fire of suspicious origins.

***SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON*** With all the evidence pointing to Ray as the both arsonist and murderer of Kelly in that he threatened to kill her in front of about a dozen witnesses, including Peter, at the "Copper Penny" bar and her death was later attributed to strangulation not the fire it's Ray who becomes the #1 suspect in Kelly's murder! That's until all the evidence starts to come in and exonerate Ray of the crime. And it soon becomes clear that the person who murdered Kelly was someone very close to her with all the evidence pointing straight to him: Kelly's boyfriend and soon to be future husband Peter McDowell!

Jamie McDowell doesn't come across sympathetic at all in the movie in her jumping to conclusions and at one point working over a helpless Ray Rankin at the police station in her trying to beat a confession out of him. It's when it's found out that her own son Peter, who confessed to Kelly's murder, murdered her that Jamie became more liberal in her thinking. That in trying to get Peter from receiving the death penally but life behind bars instead. Kelly's murder also tuned Jamie's life long friend Kelly's mom Susan Shaw,Rachel Hayword, violently against her! In that she spawned her daughter's murderer her boyfriend and soon husband to be Peter McDowell!

The film "Unthinkble" shows how we can take things for granted only to find out that in many cases people whom we feel are guilty are in fact innocent. We see this all the time in the real world as we saw this in the movie. Yes Ray Rankin was a not very nice person but as it turned out her wasn't a murderer. It was Jamie who overreacted to Kelly's murder and before the evidence was even in had the guy already convicted! That actually made her look more like the villain not the distraught mother who lost a child in the movie.

***MAJOR SPOILERS***Jamie in her using the $10,000.00 in reward money that she put up to catch and convict Kelly's killer, that turned out to be her son Peter, to get top flight shyster or lawyer Ed Callahan, Jerry Wasserman, didn't ingratiate or help her cause either! In that Calahan specializes in defending murderers rapists and cop killers. Calahan's sleazy and underhanded defense tactics did end up getting her son Peter, who's crime fit two out of the three categories,off as well! That from being strapped onto a gurney and with the help of a needle put to sleep for good!

Why do women like this trash?

[ninja_superstar-1 · 2/10 · 25 January 2009]

There isn't a moment of redemption in this movie. It's one horrible thing after another. It's basically a zombie movie with the lumbering plot and flashes of brutality standing in for the monsters. How is this movie, played on Lifetime, for women? It's so incredibly violent and disgusting. Since when do women get off on these kinds of movies? Who would willingly view an hour and a half of acts of extreme violence -- rape, murder, arson -- just to have a "good cry"? What kind of screwed up, suburban morality is that? Is your soul that devoid of humanity? If so, this weepy, manipulative, OBVIOUS, violent, cry-baby movie is for you.

Poor Quality Chick Flick

[gordon-walbroehl · 1/10 · 30 June 2009]

A waste of two hours. Try as hard as I can to be a supportive spouse; it was all I could do sit though this. The plot was thin and entirely predictable. There was little if any true chemistry between any of the major characters. The usual hackneyed stereotypes populate this movie-the gruff police captain, the stern African American female judge, the sleazy defense lawyer. The characters were all two-dimensional with no depth at all. No character development in a two hour movie. Most college film students could have done better. The melodramatic music did little to help the overall production.

No surprise outcome, no eleventh hour save. A waste of celluloid. Don't waste your time

Weird

[mamadukes-89988 · 1/10 · 3 January 2023]

The victim is killed at her mothers house in an arson fire, the house & contents were destroyed, but only days later the mother is sitting in her pristine yellow & white living room. Also, in the last scene she is moving out of the house, with movers in the background loading up a whole lot of not burned items 😜 some of the acting was stellar, except for the murderer and his victim, they should probably enroll in an acting class. I thought it was a true story at first, till I googled it, and wound up here. So kinda interesting, just poorly executed. The lead actress could summon up tears on par with Demi Moore in ghost😜

The chemistry between Philip Granger and Michelle Forbes was amazing

[belmondofilm · 8/10 · 23 April 2007]

I thought this was a very well made film.I watched it last night on Lifetime and was captivated very early on.I thought the chemistry between Philip Granger and Michelle Forbes was amazing and I enjoyed seeing these two excellent actors together.I believed these two had spent many years working the beat together.I would like to see more of them as a team.Philip Granger's charm and Michelle Forbe's hardness works well. I also felt great compassion for Racheal Haywards character.The mother of young girl taken too soon.I can only imagine how painful it would be to have to endure a child's murder.Gary Chalk is always good as the police captain.The story was one I did not expect and when the killers identity is exposed I was stunned. A Powerful film.

Unthinkable is correct!

[cloganberg · 8/10 · 14 December 2013]

Apart from looking a little like a "B" movie, I think this movie is a very realistic look an an "unthinkable" event with very good acting. It really puts into perspective the bad choices a person can make when they are under the influence of alcohol. I know first hand how you can turn into a monster when drunk; it's a scary thing. I couldn't imagine being in the shoes of the mother of a murderous son that made a very bad decision. I think the choices she had to make were very realistic. Not all movies have to have a happy ending! This movie teaches you of the dangers of alcohol abuse and sends a very important message to anyone that watches it.

Unthinkable-Think This Won Over ***

[edwagreen · 8/10 · 5 July 2009]

Interesting film where a girl, who just broke up with her drug addicted boyfriend, goes on the rebound with her mother's best friend's son. She has known the latter since birth.

When she is threatened by the ex-boyfriend and subsequently killed, the immediate suspicion falls on the ex-friend.

Surprise. This is not what the film is about. The murderer turns out to be the friend's son who killed her when she tried to call it quits with him as well.

The story is a good one as it turns into the mother of the boy, who is a police officer herself, hiring a sleazy attorney to defend him in order to get life rather than the death penalty. The film shows how the fellow is rehearsed into giving answers that will show that he is not exactly a monster.

The film is also about the ruination of lives, the destruction of a friendship between the victim's mother and the boy's mother.

Hard to fathom that a woman cop would produce a killer of a son and the girl's mother, a guidance counselor, would have such a forward tramp of a young lady who was really asking for it by her behavior.

Everyone needs to see a counselor as this film with a message ends.