User Reviews

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This movie is not as horrible, in my opinion as many before me had stated.

The movie itself is a little laggy with some boring parts that are hard to stay tuned to.

This movie has flashbacks in a his view / her view type of situation. But who do you believe? A student falls for her married teacher with murder in the end.

I personally don't think this is a must watch or even that suspenseful as many things give the ending away about 1/3 of the way through it.

If nothing else is on and you find yourself looking for 2 hours to kill on a made for TV movie then give it a chance. It is just OK for me.

By definition, a suspense film is supposed to be full of suspense. However, it is a little hard to feel said suspense when you know the ending, the so-called "twist" in the plot, and so forth, five minutes into the movie. Everything was consistent; all the pieces fit together at the end and there's none of that "that didn't make sense" feeling like there is with some films. (Warning! The following statements may be spoiler-esque.) But the early scenes were too revealing, particularly Katie's memory of the robbery- not so much where she tells the cop what happened, but when she's just thinking about it privately. I think the writers have been reading too many psych text books. I think it's a decent plot twist in and of itself, but it was made too obvious for anyone who's ever read anything about it. Perhaps they got too carried away with how clever they were to actually incorporate and conceal it cleverly in the story.

If you enjoy watching a 35 + woman behave like an immature naive 17 year old girl then you will enjoy this flick. Her name is Catherine but she prefers Katie. Aside from the horrible acting, the casting is terrible. We are supposed to belief that the 30something gorgeous single woman is so desperate that she is turned on by some old man perv taking advantage of a burglary to cop a feel. He almost throws her over a balcony and attempts to force himself on her against her will, yet she stays with him. Oh, and we are supposed to believe this supermodel 30 something behaves like a wallflower in class and puts private love letters in a large plastic drawer labeled letters. Serioiusly, the main character has the emotional maturity of a adolescent 12 year old. Who casted this movie anyway? it is like a long parade of unattractive men who cannot act. And the fate of Katie rest in their hands....ugh

"Her Married Lover" (a.k.a., "A Clean Kill") is a well-acted classic of neo-noir. The situation was dynamically conceived around the relationship of a mystery writer and his student admirer. Apparently, they first met during a robbery at a convenience store. The film's tagline of "we're invisible" were the reassuring words given to Katherine "Katie" Griffin by the dashing writer Richard Mannhart. Or, were the words really reassuring or even spoken by Richard at all? That is the conundrum of this perplexing mystery.

A weakness of the film was in the repetitive nature of the flashback scenes in which we see Richard promising over and over to divorce his wife Laura so that he can marry Katie. The film turned into a slow burner with almost the same conceit repeated again and again. In the meantime, Richard's wife Laura dies when the brakes on her car failed and she rode off a cliff. The question is: who tampered with to brakes to murder Laura Mannhart?

A crucial scene is where Katie shows off her beautiful diamond engagement ring to her bestie Brenda Slagel. The crusty police detective Lansing concludes Brenda could not corroborate Katie's story because she never met Richard personally; she only learned about him anecdotally from Katie. It now boils down to the question of who dunnit? Was it Richard? Or, was it Katie?

The major turning point in the film comes when Katie dons her wedding dress, expecting her beau to show up and take her to the altar. Katie and the maid of honoro Brenda wait and wait, but Richard never shows. It was at that moment that the viewer begins to wonder whether Katie is truly Richard's muse, or if their relationship is a twisted figment of her imagination.

The final scene in police headquarters helped to redeem the slow paced film with a compelling bit of photographic evidence that Katie reveals to Detective Lansing. For the seasoned detective, this evidence is the clincher, and it is especially relevant because of Katie's expertise as a film editor. It was the closing moments of the film that truly made "Her Married Lover" a classic!

From the moment this film opens, it grabs hold of you and never lets go till the final frame. A woman who we later find out is Katie Griffin, drives to a police station and tells the police that there has been a car crash, and that a woman has been killed. She thinks that her lover, the man she had an affair with for the last eight months, has killed his wife so he could inherit his wife's money, and marry her. She thinks he must have tampered with her car, to make it go off the road.

The wife is not actually dead, but in a coma. Her husband is a writer, and teaches a ten-week writing course. The police confront him and escort him to the hospital. His story is that they never had an affair, that she was just an obsessive student of his, in love with him and making a terrible nuisance of herself. If the car was tampered with to kill the wife, then she would have done it out of jealousy.

Both their stories fit all the known facts. Their descriptions of events differ, but they both talk about the same events. The audience is kept guessing all the way through. Which one of their stories is true? Although many murder mysteries use artificial devices to keep the audience guessing, this brilliantly-written, brilliantly-directed film does it only with utterly believable, appropriate plot and character development.

Near the end, when Katie hands over photos to the detective, the truth is revealed. But although the detective now knows the truth, the audience doesn't actually see what's in those photos until the very satisfying, yet very surprising, end. If you love murder mysteries, and you love good films, this would certainly be one of the best you'll ever see.