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ACTOR
Ashley BellTom AmandesGates McFaddenAdam Mayfield
DIRECTOR
Devon Downs,Kenny Gage
SYNOPSICS
A Neighbor's Deception (2017) is a English movie. Devon Downs,Kenny Gage has directed this movie. Ashley Bell,Tom Amandes,Gates McFadden,Adam Mayfield are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. A Neighbor's Deception (2017) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A woman begins to suspect that her therapist neighbor's offer to free treatment is not the altruistic gesture it was meant to be.
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A Neighbor's Deception (2017) Reviews
A bit slow
A woman who has had a nervous breakdown due to infertility befriends a nice shrink and his wife next door in her new neighborhood. That premise could be interesting but things stall a little in the middle. Can't quite see why she would become sleuth. You may be tempted to change channels half way but there is a bit of a pay off if you watch till the end. The ending and is a bit more violent than a typical LMN movie and there is a twist I didn't see.
There Goes the Neighborhood
While soundtrack music pulsates, a young man in denim searches for a terrified young woman. She hides under the bed to escape his clutches, but doesn't manage to get away. The next thing we see is a couple moving away from the city, attractive Ashley Bell (as Chloe) and her lawyerly husband Adam Mayfield (as Michael Anderson). They have been successfully trying to have a baby and Ms. Bell has had a nervous breakdown. The new neighborhood seems ideal, but the older couple next-door, retired psychiatrist Tom Amandes and early drinker Isabella Hofmann (as Gerald and Cheryl Dixon) give off creepy vibrations... Bell does not watch "Lifetime" TV movies because she decides to get chummy with the neighbors... Co-directors Devon Downs and Kenny Gage adequately guide this formula assignment, by writer Adam Rockoff. There is very little spark and only a few surprises. The opening "attention grabber" or "teaser" works, but is never fully explained; it doesn't make much sense. Bell jogs in the most unusual places, at all hours of the day, and on terrains most unwelcome to jogging. She would probably mistake a bed-of-nails for a trampoline. Probably, the explanation is that she is looking for places to photograph. The soundtrack songs are very good, but they should complement instead of taking you out of the story. *** A Neighbor's Deception/ Next Door (4/8/2017) Devon Downs, Kenny Gage ~ Ashley Bell, Tom Amandes, Isabella Hofmann, Adam Mayfield
**
A waste of a film with a couple, she has psychological hang-ups, move to the suburbs and find that their neighbors are a retired psychiatrist and his "wife." Notice I've placed wife in quotes. Seeing that the woman is upset, he offers to counsel her gratis, but soon she suspects that there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. The best part of this awkward film is that when she discovers what is happening, she runs to her husband's firm and tells him in front of other workers. All, including the husband thinks she has gone bonkers. The ending is completely off-the-wall and we soon find out what has happened to the therapist. The ending is not satisfying at all since the therapist needed his own psychiatric care. They really let the inmates out of the institution in this one.
O.K. thriller with an unsurprising "surprise" ending
Lifetime's last "premiere" on April 8 was "A Neighbor's Deception," also known as "Next Door," and this time it was a triumph of direction (Devon Downs and Kenny Gage have a co-director credit but, judging from their IMDb.com pages, it's Downs who was probably the lead director — the only other film that credits them both is called "Cynthia" and on that one Downs is listed as director and Gage as producer) over script and overall production. The film begins with a long Gothic-horror scene in which a woman is being stalked in a house by an unseen assailant; she hides under the bed while her would-be killer is circling around the bedroom waiting for her to emerge, and when the assailant leaves the room she makes a break for it — only to be caught at the foot of the stairs, and Then the film cuts to the good-guy protagonists, young couple Michael (Adam Mayfield) and Chloe (Ashley Bell, top-billed) Anderson, who are just moving into a new house and encounter their next-door neighbors, Gerald (Tom Amandes) and Cheryl (Isabella Hoffman) Dixon. Michael is an incredibly busy attorney, which means he works a lot of late nights — much to his wife's understandable displeasure — and for once he's played by an actor who's stocky and dark-haired, and while not drop-dead gorgeous is quite a bit sexier than the tall, lanky, sandy-haired and rather blank-looking guys who are Lifetime's usual "type" as the good-guy husbands. Apparently the two have been on the rocks as a couple since they were unable, after years of trying, to have children, and the last failure (we assume she had a miscarriage, though writer Adam Rockoff doesn't specify that) propelled her into a nervous breakdown from which she's only starting to recover — I guess moving out of the city and into the suburbs was supposed to ease her emotionally and help her recover. Gerald turns out to be a retired psychotherapist who mostly does research now but still likes to see patients privately in his home; he offers to treat Chloe but we suspect, based on the way we see him looking at her when both couples have dinner together, that he's really after her sexually. Of course Chloe gets suspicious of him and starts investigating his past, especially after she gets a series of anonymous phone calls while she's out jogging in the country (she jogs at all hours of the day and night and we start to wonder if she has any social life or ever does anything away from home other than jogging). The stranger who keeps calling her turns out to be James Rooker (Ben Whalen), whose wife Caroline (Marissa Labog) was a patient of Gerald's years before until he seduced her and she, too, mysteriously disappeared; James is convinced Gerald killed his wife and wants Chloe to prove it. Gerald had told Chloe he did both his undergraduate and graduate work at Middlesex University, but she finds out he never finished there: he was a graduate student and a teaching assistant when he seduced one of his pupils, who mysteriously disappeared just before the college hearing at which she was supposed to testify against him. "A Neighbor's Deception" isn't much of a movie, and the big "surprise" reveal at the end isn't that much of a surprise (especially with Michael's Psycho reference to clue us in), though Tom Amandes (about the only actor here I've heard of before) delivers a finely honed performance as Gerald — but it's saved by Downs' and Gage's atmospheric neo-Gothic direction and the overall sense of menace they're able to create even with a pretty bland, by-the-numbers thriller script.
Outstanding performances from the 4 lead actors, makes this an underrated thriller!
I don't give away the ending, no real spoilers here A young couple, Chloe & Michael Anderson (played by and move into a suburban neighborhood. Michael works all the time, sometimes coming home after Chloe is asleep, and leaving before she wakes up. Still, their marriage is a happy one, and they are very much in love. But Chloe is having trouble with the move. The new place, no friends, and being constantly alone, is putting a strain on her. She's having panic attacks, and they are getting worse. Nothing seems to help, and she is desperate. They soon become friendly with the older couple who live next door, Gerald & Cheryl Dixon (played by & ). Gerald is a retired psychiatrist, and when he notices Chloe in distress, he offers to treat her for free. Chloe refuses at first. After all, they don't really know the Dixons, but she is having serious panic attacks she can't control, and she does need help. Chloe knows the source of the stress in her life. She & Michael had been trying to get pregnant for years, to no avail. This led to a nervous breakdown, and a stay in a mental hospital. She thought she was through it, but she now questions if the move was the right decision. Between the panic attacks, the insomnia, and the loneliness, she feels she needs to talk to someone, and since Gerald offered to treat her for free, she decides why not? At first, the sessions go well; Gerald seems to be good at his job. But there is some odd behavior from both of the Dixons, which makes her wonder if the sessions are a good idea after all. Soon after, she receives a stranger's obituary in her mailbox. Initially, she thinks it's a mistake, but then the phone calls begin. The man on the other end claims Gerald killed his wife, and warns her she is in danger too. She wants to blow this man off, but she's noticed strange behavior from the Dixons that has made her uneasy. Chloe decides to begin her own investigation into Gerald & Cheryl. Needless to say, The Dixons are not who they appear to be on the surface. There are deaths & disappearances in their pasts that can't be explained. Who are they really? Is it just a series of mysterious coincidences? When Chloe tries to tell Michael what she's found, he doesn't believe her. He thinks she is imagining things. Her past problems cloud his judgment, and blind him to the truth Chloe has uncovered. Will his mistake cost Chloe her life? This is an underrated little gem, mainly because of the 4 leads. They all are totally believable in their roles, and give outstanding performances. If your like thrillers, give this a watch!