Sjhm Review of Living with the Enemy

Living with the Enemy (I) (2005 TV Movie)

A made for TV thriller in the Hitchcockian mold

[6/10 · 27 July 2011]

This is actually quite a passable thriller, with one glaring fault that drives me crazy. Why any woman would put up with the sister from moment one is a mystery to me? Outside of that, Sarah Lancaster gives it her all as the Hitchcockian blonde, the girl next door who marries her prince. That he turns out to be a little less of a prince as the story progresses is perhaps a little predictable, but Mark Humphrey plays the older geek turned prince with just the right mixture of dorkiness and control-freakness to be believable. He genuinely doesn't understand why his new bride might be upset with him when he reveals to her that he engineered their first meeting, thus instantly killing the magic. The film plays out along similar lines to Anti-Trust, in that the big bad corporation has gone one step further and is actually killing any vague hint of opposition. It doesn't have the intensity of Anti-Trust, or the stellar cast, but it isn't a bad way to spend an evening.