You May Now Kill the Bride (2016 TV Movie)
6/10
Burritos For Breakfast
24 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Nicole Cavanaugh grew up as a virtual orphan. Her mom abandoned her shortly after birth, and her father passed away while she was in high school. Now, she has met Mark, who would appear to be the love of her life. Everything augurs well for their upcoming wedding to take place at Timberwood, a site that Nicole was fond of since childhood. It all seems to too good to be true. And then, the nightmare begins.

It was a really bad sign when the two love birds, Mark and Nicole, welcomed into their home Mark's stepsister Audrey, who cooks a breakfast of burritos, bacon, and eggs. That was the regular cuisine for Sundays when Mark and Audrey were living under the same roof. Now, Audrey is eager to take over, and her objective is to not allow another woman to walk up the aisle with Mark.

At first, Audrey seems like the sister that Nicole never had growing up. She will be the bridesmaid at the wedding. But the dark side of Audrey kicks in when Audrey sets her sights on being Maid of Honor. That title belongs to Nicole's bestie, Celine. Suddenly, Celine takes a tumble off the top of a parking garage and lands in the hospital with a coma.

The best scene in the film was when Nicole first began to realize that Audrey was the cause of everything going wrong with the wedding plans. But as soon as she confronted Audrey, Nicole became a backslider and apologized. Even when she learns that Mark's first fiancée Rachel fell off a bridge and died just before the wedding, the mishap with Celine, and the lie Audrey told about Becca Gould, one of Mark's girlfriends in high school, Nicole inexplicably continues to trust Audrey.

The filmmakers tried to milk the script with multiple false endings that stretched credibility beyond the pale. Instead of being placed in prison, Audrey is sent to a hospital where she walks out the front door and makes a beeline to Mark. The film redeems itself somewhat with a dramatic battle in the bathtub in the bridal suite.

Nicole's line about Audrey sums it up best: "She's always here!" Even by the end of the film, it appears as though Audrey will never be removed from the orbit of Mark and Nicole. Will their marriage be defined with Sunday breakfasts in bed with burritos?
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