My Neighbor's Keeper (2007)

Fantastic!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The acting in this movie is really good.

This is an average fair TV movie.The story is OK. The acting is average. None of the actors really stole the show, but I guess that's what I'm coming to expect from 'made for TV movies.' This is a bit of a whodunnit and it kind of leaves you guessing right up the end. It's low budget and you can tell. However it did keep my interest all the way through, although the whole movie is instantly forgettable. There's nothing new here. It's all been done before. But it's not terrible. It's watchable but incredibly average.The ending didn't exactly come as a huge shock and there weren't enough twists in this film to take it higher than 6 stars. I guess it's harmless enough and I've watched far worse.

Kate and husband Tim want to have children, but they have not been successful. Kate even quit her professional job and started pushing around a cart in a hospital, in hopes that less stress would help. Ann and Mike live next door and have children, but their marriage isn't a happy one. Mike is always working, and his work involves a lot of travel. And he spends too much money--money he really doesn't have to spend.On Halloween night, Mike is working late, and Ann stays home to give candy to trick-or-treaters. Kate takes Ann's kids out trick-or-treating, and after she returns home, a group of older kids show up, one with a Frankenstein mask. Kate goes outside and notices Frankenstein visiting Ann's house alone. A few minutes later, Mike calls to say Ann won't answer the phone, so Kate goes over to check. If only Mike hadn't worked late that night ... if only he weren't so obsessed with stuff.Can Mike raise his kids alone? He may not have to. Kate takes the kids that night, and she helps out a lot when Mike is ready to work again and even travel. Kate's behavior is kind of creepy--she seems to think the kids are actually hers, and Tim isn't too happy over the situation.The investigation is interesting, and we are presented with some interesting theories. The ending is quite exciting. I won't say this is one of the better TV-movies prior to the ending, but the actor or actress who plays the murderer does an outstanding job in the final scenes.It's actually worth seeing.

My first review and with the warning about spoilers, guess all my reviews here will warn that there might be spoilers.... Anyways, I was stunned to see this written up at mylifetime dot com -- doesn't that mean this is a Lifetime movie?? Usually the people in Lifetime movies know how to *act* or at least pretend like they're acting but NOT in this movie. This could have been a powerful movie that got its message across but the acting was SO bad all I want to do is forget this movie and everyone in it as quickly as possible.Not only was the acting awful, but the cinematography was totally lifeless and washed out, too. Did they use a cheapie video-cam to shoot this movie? If not, why did they desaturate the colors in the entire movie? It wasn't my TV because the sit-com that came on afterwards looked great.The whole movie left me shaking my head and wondering what in the world were they thinking - didn't they want people to actually *want* to watch this movie? If so, they completely failed in achieving that goal. :P

2 couples who knew each other from college days and lived across the street from each other in suburbia are traumatized when on Halloween night, one of the wives is killed. She is the one with the adorable two children. Right away we feel that something is funny because the other friend is childless and is desperate to have children.We have some real look like others in this film. The widower looks just like John Edwards and a judge at an inquest resembles Bill Clinton.Other than this, the story is too routine because we soon start to see the evidence mount up on the dead woman's husband. This guy was not such a great fellow apparently as the film goes on. We never meet his lady love who it is claimed has no interest in being a mother to his children.Naturally, the childless friend becomes very attached to the two children despite being warned not to do so by her husband.I was looking for conspiracy here. That would have made the film better. Otherwise, it's quite routine.