This is one of those good late night TV movies that you happen to come across and then decide to watch all the way through. It stars Yancy Butler as the murderous psychotic sociopath and an already badly aged Nick Mancuso. Deidre(Butler's character) has a history of violence and mental instability, and later on in the film its revealed that she even drowned her own sister back when they were teenagers because Deidre liked the same guy that her sister liked. David(Mancuso's character) once also led the same kind of life that Deidre led and still leads, one of alcohol and kinky S and M types of sexual pleasure. They were married for three years, but even David couldn't handle Deidre's chaotic personality. David eventually divorced Deidre and moved on with his life. David is currently re-married to Molly and has a young son named Michael. The problem is, Deidre hasn't moved on. In fact, she is even more obsessed with David than ever. She does everything including impersonate her psychiatrist, murdering that psychiatrist when she is caught, murdering a few other choice people, moving into the apartment across from David and Molly's to let them see her from the window, frame David for beating her to discredit him from the police and his own lawyer, to showing a kinky sex tape to David's lawyer of David and Deidre that was made when they were still married. This is more or less the poor man's version of Fatal Attraction. And the ending, well I won't give it away completely, but I will tell you that you won't underestimate little children anymore after you see it. All in all, its a great little movie that will keep you up late at night if you happen to catch it on some cable channel or you somehow happen to find in on DVD or (gasp!) VHS if they still exist.
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