1/31/2024 0 Comments Hidden in plain sight 2019![]() ![]() Hidden in Plain Sight, 2019 © MarVista Entertainment Sure, maybe not as the producers hoped maybe, but hey, it’s a win either way. You can’t watch this and not say you weren’t entertained, because you one hundred percent will be. ![]() This is like an 87-minute crash course in 101 Lifetime Movie making and you know what, it commits to it with such reckless abandon, it actually works. Wildly generic score featuring booms and deafening orchestra hits? You bet. Soft lighting to heighten drama? Got that. Unearned jumpscares from out of nowhere meant to pad artificial suspense? Check. Hidden in Plain Sight, 2019 © MarVista EntertainmentĬrawford is making all kinds of calls from a well used movie playbook here, Hidden In Plain Sight packed to the rafters with old school cinematic clichés left and right. And when I say a kerfuffle, I mean a desperate daylight run through the woods with an axe-wielding maniac on your heels. Nick tracks her down, having flustered Anna’s mother ( Deborah Van Valkenburgh) into giving away the truth and it’s time for a kerfuffle. Skip ahead and now settled into her new life with a new friend named Chloe ( Jessica Meraz) and finding love again with chisel-chinned (hey, she has a type) Lucas ( Jake Allyn), Anna is feeling like all is coming together, finally. What’s a girl to do? Hidden in Plain Sight, 2019 © MarVista Entertainment More so when Nick refuses to call the cops and takes to yelling at her because, you know, he’s got secrets. Having met a few years earlier while she worked at an art gallery, she fell for the handsome chisel-chin eccentric and his money, though when someone wearing a ski mask breaks into their house and threatens her to tell him where the money is, leaving Nick to throttle the guy with a hair dryer cord, questions arise. Either way, young, attractive waitress Anna (Barabas) knows this best, having done the unthinkable to get a new start after love done stunk it up for her, faking her own death (and that of her young son) to escape the clutches of her mysterious long-time lover, Nick ( Gino Anthony Pesi). Geils Band probably summed it up better by adjusting the title to Love Stinks. So sang way underrated 70s rock band Nazareth, though a decade later J. It’s director Stacia Crawford‘s skeezy thriller Hidden in Plain Sight, though some might know it as Kill Me Twice yet no matter the name, it’s a cheese-filled mouthful of glutenous fun that is as tacky as it is silly, making it – obviously – ridiculously entertaining. But she went a different route than most, and oh how it went south. Ever been stuck in a bad relationship? What did you do to get out of it? Write an email? Maybe call a friend? Read some online advice column? Walk away? Well twenty-something hottie Anna ( Victoria Barabas) sure was in a wreck of relationship. ![]()
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