A Woman's Rage (2008 TV Movie) User Reviews

The Love of Her (unbalanced) Life

[JustJudy · 2 September 2011]

I rarely, if ever watch Lifetime movies and for some reason sat through this one. I kept hoping it would get better and was disappointed.

Poor and over-acting were the worst offenses, although the material was pretty paltry and contained way too many holes. Are we really supposed to believe that Allison struck Brian (on his bike) with her vehicle and there was no damage to the car? And if there was, that no one noticed it? And that no one linked these two and investigated her? The whole cougar thing with Catherine's son didn't ring true, either.

And why (as the other reviewer pointed out) did NO ONE investigate Jordan's disappearance? Someone with that much involvement in environmental causes would surely be missed by one group or another, not to mention her workplace or community.

The ending was way too predictable (the remaining good guys aren't seriously injured and the baddie gets her just desserts) but hey, at least we know Allison won't be "accidentally" killing again.

The Avenging Fury

[lavatch · 8/10 · 5 June 2020]

"The Love of Her Life" (a.k.a., "A Woman's Rage") is a well-crafted film with the strong central character of an avenging fury. The narrative voice-over begins the film with a citation from George Sand: "There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved." After Allison is dumped by her boyfriend Brian, she bumps him off, then plots a diabolical plan to murder his fiancée Kathryn.

As a little girl, Allison's beloved dad left home, due apparently to a domineering mother. Allison never got over the pain. Now, her fury knows no bounds as she seeks to retaliate against the woman she believes stole her man.

After killing Brian, running him off the road while he was cycling, Allison kills his sister Jordyn, then impersonates her, moving into Kathryn's home that she shares with her seventeen-year-old son Scott. Some of the best scenes in the film were those in which Allison skillfully drives a wedge between mother and son. An inevitable finale occurs in Brian's cabin where Allison's fiendish plot comes into focus.

The actress playing Allison/Jordyn was terrific in conveying the icy realism of the avenging fury. There was an interesting study in contrasts with the Allison and the steady Kathryn, who was dedicated in giving tough love to her son who was on probation after stealing a car. One could easily see why Brian was overwhelmed by the needy Allison and drawn like a magnet to Kathryn who offered him so much stability.

Despite the simplicity of the plot, the pacing was effective and the characters were especially well-developed. The solid screenplay and the uniformly excellent set of performances combined for a drama of passion and a failed search for love.

Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned!

[sol-kay · 7/10 · 11 April 2011]

***SPOILERS*** Corny but highly entertaining Lifetime movie about a woman who goes as far as multiple murder to get her man back. The man in question advertisement executive Brian Hagan, Cameron Bancroft, had dumped Allison, who for some reason has his last name in the credits, Hagan because she was getting too possessive and crazy over him. That so much to the point where everyone he talked to or interacted with, man as well as women, Allison felt threatened by in them taking her dreamboat of a boyfriend away from her!

Always following Brian wherever he went Allison spotted him in a fancy Philadelphia restaurant with his new love pretty blond and widowed Kathryan Brown, Brandy Ledford, having dinner. Feeling that Kathryn was the other woman in Brian splitting up with her, she in fact wasn't, Allison now plans to make both her and Brian's life a living hell on earth! Bleacing her hair blond and traveling to Charlston NC. where Brian and Kathryan moved to Allison ends up murdering Brian's sister Jordan, Claire Brosseau, and taking over her identity. Later Allison runs down and kills Brian, who's a bike freak, while his's riding his mountain bike to work.

The plan that Allison had concocted to get even with Kathryn for stealing her man is now almost complete with her showing up at her house as the grieving sister,Jordan, looking for a place to stay until her brother Brian is put to his final resting place! Spotting Kathryn's 17 year old son Scott, Alex House, who turns the man hungry Allison on she now not only plans to corrupt the innocent young man but get him put away for breaking his parole,in being convicted in car theft and spray painting, thus spending the next 18 months behind bars! Something that Kathryn had no idea in what Allison was now planning for her & her troubled son!

***SPOILERS*** Over the top acting by everyone involved especially the brunette and later blond Cynthia Preston, as Allison Hagan, who'll stop at nothing to destroy everything that Kathryn,the other woman in her breakup with Brian, feels is good and valuable in her life. Going so far as getting sexually involved with the very naive Scott Allison gets him to break his curfew by fixing his car not to work so he can't get home, 11:00 PM, in time. It when Kathryn finally gets wise to Allison's plan it's too late with her having Scott all drugged up and set up to be set on fire in Kathryn's cabin in the North Carolina woods that's some 50 miles away from civilization.

Working against the clock Kathryn races to save Scott but ends up getting captured by Allison who now plans to complete her crazy and murderous plan to get even with Kathryn, for stealing Brian away from her, by offing both her and Jr, Scott, at the same time! This all would have help if Allison was a better shot which she wasn't which had her master plan of revenge go straight down the rat-hole together with her!

Decent TV Thriller

[Bexxter · 15 January 2011]

Review Contains Spoilers! Watched this movie the other night. Don't know what it is about these Lifetime movies that draw me in- the suspense,the high drama who knows. Unlike the previous reviewer, Mr. Fisher, I did not find the movie as abysmal as he did. The acting was decent for a made for TV movie and there was a fair amount of suspense. In particular, I liked the acting of the son, Alex House, he played a good confused teenager. That being said, I always find myself nitpicking for things because in made-for-TV movies, there is usually something to nitpick about.

1) What is with Brandy Ledford's right eye(the actress who played Kathryn)? It droops throughout the movie. She must have had an infection or something. But if that is supposed to be alluring, it doesn't work.

2) So Allison's plan to kill her husband was to run him off the road while he was bicycling so it would look like an accident. How is that a surefire way to kill anyone? What if he didn't die? Was she going to back over him with her Honda Element? 3) How in the world would anyone be so lucky to commit murders without any witnesses whatsoever? Jordan apparently parks in the middle of nowhere after a 'rally' and no one witnesses Allison's hit and run-even though she stops and stands over his lifeless body for some time.

4) How completely isolated to the world is Brian's sister Jordan. I get that she is a 'free spirit' and has no parents. But doesn't 'anyone' give a care that this woman has gone completely missing- co-workers at least? Wouldn't it be natural that after a couple of weeks they would try to contact her brother's fiancée or send the police to talk to her? I mean that could have been a little wrinkle in Allison's plans if the police or co-worker came by and figured out that the model looking Allison was not Granola Jane Jordan.

Those nitpicks aside, it was a pretty decent TV thriller. I guess the only other nitpick is that a more dramatic ending would have been nice. There are two types of endings for thrillers- the Fatal Attraction- you think the crazy person is dead, but they revive and attack you repeatedly or, as in the case of this movie, the person hits their head and goes unconscious. I would have liked a Fatal Attraction ending where Allison gets up and attacks Kathryn, the son magically revives and the two of them grip the gun and shoot Allison together- truly showing that mother and son have reunited and bonded during this difficult trial for them both. But I guess you can't have everything :)

Quite good

[phd_travel · 7/10 · 13 October 2019]

Not content with bumping off the guy who dumped her, this wacko pretends to be his dead sister to his present girlfriend and her teenage son. She proceeds to make the boy get in trouble. She is quite effective.

Unlike some other Lifetime movies this story hasn't been done before so it's an okay watch.