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Vivica A. Fox, Ricco Ross, Calli Taylor, and Travis Burns in The Wrong Boy Next Door (2019)

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The Wrong Boy Next Door

21 reviews
4/10

Low budget poor acting

  • EmmaNelly
  • Jul 26, 2020
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4/10

worse than most lifetime movies

At start I was first amazed by how dangerous the boy and his friend were. Realistic and good topic. Reminds me of personal problems with abusive people and confrontations and criminals. But towards end the movie get more and more predictable, annoying, boring. The fact that girl was limited within her own property only makes this movie very predictable and low quality. The cameras looked fake, the fact that it gets unnoticed by girl looks fake, the hiding of switching of corpse with a doll looks impossible or fake. Unfinished end. Leaves us with many questions, holes in the story, and disappointment. Too boring. Only few random violence acts in form of confrontations looked interesting to me, and maybe somewhat hot girl, nothing else.
  • NijazBaBs
  • Feb 2, 2020
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This movie dragged

I managed to do some cleaning, eat dinner/wash dishes, get ready for work tmrw and this movie was still on. Most if not all of the Wrong series involve obsession of some kind, but this had to be the weakest. I like Meredith Thomas' movies, and she, along with Vivica and Jason-Shane (who is basically a cameo) didn't make it worth it.

Also, I'm beyond sick of these villains getting away. It's so played out. It's one thing if they are just obsessed, but when they become killers, the movies totally drop the ball with tracking them down. They just move on to terrorize and after a couple of times, it's annoying.
  • CranberriAppl
  • Jan 17, 2022
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2/10

Bad girl gets a badder boy

This Lifetime movie has Calli Taylor as a bad girl who at one time was an A student. No real explanation is given,, but after she beans her teacher with a cell phone, Taylor is suspended and put on house arrest with an ankle monitor.

Still house arrest might not be so bad when she spots hunky Travis Burns working next door. He's doing home repair on a house that he says belonged to his late grandmother. Of course as it always is in these films Burns is a very bad guy way out of Taylor's league of badness.

Typical trash from Lifetime.
  • bkoganbing
  • Dec 27, 2019
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2/10

Worst acting I've ever seen!!

Wow lifetime moves just aren't like they used to be back In the 90's/early 2000's. Almost all newer lifetime movies are just bad. This in was no exception. It was almost painful to watch bc the acting was so awful! Start making better movies lifetime....pleeeeeease.
  • jazzyedwards
  • Mar 23, 2020
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1/10

Boring

The most boring and predictable movie I have ever seen. The acting was a snoozefest
  • zanaj-60895
  • Dec 19, 2020
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not surprising

The good point - the presence of Vivica A. Fox. The bad - difficult to define with precision. Maybe the reasonable start , maybe the exploration of teenagers universe invaded by cliches. But it is far to be surprising. One of many films about the dark teenager and not real innocent victim near his guardian angel. And the open end , good looking young actors and , off course, Vivica A. Fox as a sort of savior of the too poor film.
  • Kirpianuscus
  • Aug 28, 2020
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1/10

Worst ever!!!

Worst acting ever!!! Terrible !!! Is the wrong director, not next boy...
  • roshumihai-12270
  • May 30, 2021
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1/10

Horrible acting.

This movie may have been a little bit better if he acting were better but it was awful
  • svogel1120
  • Feb 23, 2020
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6/10

Lake City House Flippers Make Bad Neighbors

  • lavatch
  • May 8, 2020
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2/10

Lame and dull topped off with awful acting

Now I'll start off by saying I love watching Lifetime movies, although most of them have actors with no actual acting skill. This movie, however, was actually difficult to watch; most of the "the wrong" movies are fun (for me, anyway) to watch. The lead actress in this movie made the already terrible acting among most of the actors even worse. Every scene in this movie, this girl was trying to portray herself as being the only woman that men would want, trying way too hard. If she focused more on actual acting, rather than whatever it was she was attempting to achieve, she may have a shot. The story line and movie was rather boring and dull, with no actual plot, other than the "wrong boy" being a weirdo. Anyway, not one to bother watching. On another note, am I the only one that thinks the lady that played the mother has the most annoying/ghastly voice!
  • scarletepilogue
  • Mar 7, 2021
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7/10

Cliff hanger and no sequel???? Rude!!

Amazing movie but seriously ....how can u end it like that without a sequel?
  • lianakolohe
  • Jul 18, 2019
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3/10

I suspect

The leading actress paid this movie to make it for her own deed. Very likely.... u will know after you watch it.
  • ks-60500
  • Sep 10, 2020
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1/10

Copy cat of distubia Shia LaBeouf

This movie is the copycat of Disturbia but very low budget and not as good as Shia LaBeouf in Disturbia they have just switch roles and put it as a female whos locked in her house pretty boring low budget bad acting movie I didn't like it.
  • shaoshankhizkial
  • Sep 30, 2021
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One of the worst movies I've ever seen

  • sayuru_dissanayake
  • Jul 17, 2022
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3/10

Awful

Play, plot, soundtrack, the creepiness is almost funny, but it's not, the way it's shot is bad too The narrative of the moral of flipping houses could be a good subject; but they played this awful.
  • flaviu_slim
  • Nov 12, 2021
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Another crap V Fox movie!

  • haroot_azarian
  • Sep 2, 2021
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3/10

Ridiculously unrealistic - Definitely a Lifetime movie

  • charleswx-43127
  • Feb 3, 2024
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7/10

A Lifetime version of Rear Window

  • phd_travel
  • Aug 30, 2019
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5/10

The wrong boy next door

After troubled teen Katie (she likes to Chuck a mobile at someone in class!) is sentenced to house arrest, Katie falls for an attractive young man named John, who has just moved in next door. While their affair seems harmless at first, Katie becomes increasingly convinced there's more than meets the eye with John. Meaning she realises he's too buns short of a whole burger. He's the typically psycho guys you find in lifetime thrillers.

Calli Taylor is so beautiful, lovely eyes and so is her friend ... oh yes, the story isn't bad, though it's well telegraphed in terms of what's happening. But that's fine as these thrillers are relaxing and fun. Predictable but comfy as grandad sleepers. They are after all TV films with a limited budget and the scripts are just glanced over maybe a few times. The acting can be amateurish and the ending comes suddenly but it's a relaxing watch. They are better ones, though.
  • coltras35
  • Apr 11, 2024
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1/10

Disturbia if you ordered it from Wish

Nope. Nope. Nope. I've never written a review on here before, but this was so bad and so cringe that I had to warn others. The premise of the plot was a really realllllyyyyy really bad knockoff of Disturbia. The acting was like an awful awkward and cringey teenage porn. Or like those weird 2000s late night shows on MTV. I genuinely do not know why i sat through the entire thing.

The best friend and the lead guy could have potential in the right setting/script/production, but do yourself a favor and do not bother with this movie. Of all the crappy movies I have watched... this one is probably the one where I regret not turning it off sooner the most.
  • rebeccaodze
  • Nov 30, 2024
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