Runtime:
90 some odd minutes
Directed
by: Tristan Dubois
Starring:
Rachael Leigh Cook, Graham Abbey, Paula Jean Hixson, Neil Napier
From:
Incendo Productions
How
did I spend my Friday night tonight? Why, drinking several alcohol
beverages at home while watching a TV movie from Canada that debuted
up there last year (and was made in '10) and tonight made its
American debut... on the Lifetime Movie Network. Yes, I watched a
fillm on that channel, and yes it was for its lead. It was a movie I
had known about before while going through her filmography and I knew
its origins. I just had no idea when it would be shown in the United
States. It turns out, last night I found out it was making its debut
tonight. I am glad I did find that out; I would have been pissed if I
had missed it.
In
this movie set in Boston but filmed in Montreal, Amanda Collier
(Rachael) is an MIT genius who graduated with honors in aeronautical
engineering (shamefully, even I have to laugh at that) and is working
on a big design breakthrough. It gets stolen by a co-worker and he
claims it as his own. She gets pissed and she and her lawyer brother
(Abbey) fight to get credit for it. The co-worker gets murdered and
it's made to look like Amanda was the one who did the killing. Her
and her brother try to defend themselves, while some other people get
off'ed...
There
are various twists and turns in this murder mystery. And no the final
twist isn't that it was actually Amanda who does all the killings. I
won't spoil it any further in case you want to check this out
sometime in the future. It's basically Rachael and a bunch of random
Canucks, but everyone at least delivers a fine performance and the
filmmaking is satisfactory. It's nothing spectacular but it certainly
isn't awful; it was perfectly acceptable (and more) for a TV movie
and if you enjoy oogling and goggling at the lead then you might want
to check this out, as it's a fine way to spend a random afternoon or
evening... and she does look pretty hot.
And
no I have no idea if the big design improvement presented in the film
is possible or if it's just poppycock. It doesn't really matter. Also, I can't really explain the title of this motion picture. The apparent French title listed on its IMDb page, La Bataille d'Amanda, makes just about as much sense.
I'll
be back Tuesday night.
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