The Good Mistress

For a Lifetime movie, this was pretty good. The main reason is that hardly any scenes went by where I got mad at how stupid something was. The plot was decent and the acting was decent. Anne Heise was very good. In most movies, when someone gets clobbered they get up again with no harm done. That happens often. In this movie it only happened once. Amazing!

With no thanks to the leading lady Annie Heise, not to be confused with Anne Hesch also a bad actress. This one is as boring and uninteresting to watch as the other one. From the beginning to the surprise ending she sort of wandered from set to set and obviously attempting to frame a guy she slept with that turned out to be her best friend's husband. As a stupid amateur sleuth, she screws everything up and makes one mistake after another. The police should have arrested her for interfering with their work.

But no, this bimbo keeps getting in everybody's hair, drugging the guy she suspects, not informing her best friend of her husband's infidelity and generally snooping in everybody's business. Meantime, she supposed to be working. All of us are hoping she gets knocked off.

I agree the storyline is much over done, movies with similar story lines but these movies would not be successful ifs its not hitting home base, truth is this happens so often in reality and i'm sure alot of times women wish they could be like Karen. I thought the acting was pretty good, kept me at my screen not wondering off to the fridge like i usually do.

In the opening scene, an attractive blonde is pursued and killed by a camera-shy assailant. We quickly learn this occurs in the desolate woods of a small town called Shelter Hills. Coincidently, another pretty blonde arrives in town, from Michigan, pulled over by cute officer Jeremy Guilbaut (as Grady Williams). Intending to start a new life, former alcohol abuser Annie Heise (as Sandy Cooper) maimed a lad while drunk-driving and was deprived of her family fortune in a resulting lawsuit. However, she has accepted responsibility and wants to stay off the sauce. A paralegal, Ms. Heise gets a job courtesy of her old school-mate Kendra Anderson (as Karen), who also took to Shelter Hills. Her tall, dark and handsome husband Antonio Cupo (as David Waterford) is running for county supervisor. This is strictly production-line TV movie story-telling, from director Terry Ingram and the crew. What's "Good" is that is concludes in under 85 minutes. Heise doesn't qualify as a "Mistress" and the fact that a character chooses to date her in the town's most public places – including the local coffee shop and bar – is ludicrous.

**** The Good Mistress (2/15/14) Terry Ingram ~ Annie Heise, Antonio Cupo, Kendra Anderson, Jeremy Guilbaut

This is an utterly undistinguished Lifetime movie, the same one you've seen many many times if you watch Lifetime. The actors are uninteresting, the direction is pedestrian and the writing is bland and amateurish. This movie could be the template from which all Lifetime movies are made. The relatively high rating is almost certainly due to one or both of two things: either some reviewers were associated with the production, and/or some were impressed with the twist which was truly unexpected. The question is: was the movie good enough to make the twist worth watching the film? I say NO. You will find the film tedious in the extreme, you will not expect the ending, and you will still regret having watched this howler.