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5/10
Your Cheatin' Heart
sol121823 April 2011
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***SPOILERS*** Only worth watching for the hot and in one case built like a Titan missile chicks in it "The Cheaters Club" is so off the wall and ridicules that it totally has you forget that the film involves a mysterious serial killer who's offing a number of the movies main cast of characters.

It's famed radio talk show host and psychiatrist the free spirited Dr. Roberta "Bobbie" Adler, Wendy Anderson, who starts the ball, or heads, rolling in the film by advising three of her sex starved and sexy lady clients to get a life or better yet a man that can fulfill their wildest sexual fantasies since their overworked, in trying to satisfy them, husbands are too busy working for a living to pay the mortgage and car payments as well as put food on the table. The happily married, to a brain damaged Gulf War Veteran, Dr. Bobbie in fact practices what she preaches with her having on the side a male collage student sex toy the always ready for action and available Paolo Abruzzi, Cris Violette.

As Bobbie and Paolo are doing their thing in a flea bag motel room their attacked and murdered by an unknown assailant who seems to be very much against their rough type of love making. That to the point of making it even rougher on the two by murdering them. It's now the three clients of the late Doctor Bobbie Adler Linda Stern, Charisma Carpenter, Cindy Hartford, Katya Gardner, & Mredith Glass, Krista Bridges, who are on the hot seat in being the prime suspects in her and Palolo's murder.

With the hard nosed and bloodhound like sniffing lady detective Rollin, Kate Trotter,put on the case things start to get real hot for the trio of adulteresses who start to wilt and crack under the pressure that detective Rollins puts on them. While all this is happening Meredith who's been screwing around with her assigned,by Dr.Bobbie, ex-convict surrogate lover Tony Armstrong, Rogue Johnston, is caught in the act with a hidden video camera installed in their motel room. It later when Tony is brutally murdered by what's obvious the very person who offed Bobbie & Paolo that her life as a hot shot attorney at a major city law firm falls apart. Not in Tony's murder but her tryst with him being caught on camera and made public, via the internet, to the entire world!

With the amorously over-sized, in the bar department, Linda Stern feeling the heat form detective Rollins coming down on her she finally comes clean in what her together with Meredith & Cindy were involved in their treatment, to liven up their sex lives, by the late Dr. Bobbi Adler. This now has detective Rollins start to check out their assigned surrogate lovers Kyle & Alex, Andrew Kraulis & Derek Dugas, who somehow may have been responsible for the Doctor Bobbie Palo and Tony's murders!

***MAJOR SPOILERS*** In the end the late Dr.Bobbie's treatment of her sex starved women clients backfired on them with their non-stop sexual activity somehow activating the killer who's now in the process of doing them all in together with their crazy doctor's-Bobbie Adler-appointed lovers! We actually find out who the killer is way before the movie is over! The only surprise that's left in the film is Linda stern's appearance at the end of the movie! With a new hairdo and looking some 30 pound heavier it took me a while to realize who she was just like it did her barley awake, in him working 12 to 16 hours a day, husband Richard, Tim Campbell, who tried in order to salvage his acting career to keep himself as scarce and unnoticed as possible in the movie.
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5/10
flat Lifetime movie
SnoopyStyle17 February 2015
Dr. Bobbie Adler (Wendy Anderson) does a radio talk show. She advises her clients Linda Stern (Charisma Carpenter), Cindy Hartford (Katya Gardner) and Meredith Glass (Krista Bridges) in group therapy to cheat to save their marriages. Bobbie tells them that she's cheating on her husband Robert with Paolo herself. Linda is unsure being married with a child. Meredith is a high-powered lawyer mother and convinced of the power of cheating. Cindy reveals that she has reconnected with her high school sweetheart Alex who dumped her. Linda starts cheating with Kyle. Bobbie is killed and Detective Rollins (Kate Trotter) investigates.

There is a depressed feeling about this movie. The tension is slow to build. The characters don't have much rooting interest. Steve DiMarco is mostly a TV director and that's the level of this Lifetime movie. Trotter is playing a ridiculously hard charging police detective. If there is a dial that max out at 10, she turns it all the way to 11. The tension gets better as the group disintegrates but it's a tired progression. This isn't sexy and it isn't a thrilling murder mystery either. There are some big reveals but they're not set up right early in the movie.
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The Losers Club
geoffox-766-4184672 November 2010
This should be the title of this awful film. Three stupid women take advice from another vain and stupid woman. To win your husband back, go out and have an affair. Great advice as it all ends up in murder. Won't give the ending away. Directed by Steve DiMarco who did an admirable job with the lack of talent he had and written by (now get this) a woman, Camilla Carr and a man, Kevin Commins. Most of the writing was nothing special, in fact at times downright blah. Ending was also terrible. The three women played by obviously non talented starlets of Hollywood who need the work by the names of Charisma Carpenter (don't be fooled by the name) who has as much looks and charm as a wax museum; Katya Gardner as a bleached blond bimbo who had the main job to go around in the film whimpering most of the time; and Krista Bridges the head bitch of them all always snarling and making guttural sounds (great acting?) Then we have Wendy Anderson who is the doctor giving all the advice as she plays around with sexual bondage on her off hours. Great example. The three poor husbands don't get much leverage as the losers. They are played by Tim Campbell, Andrew Kraulis and Jeff Pangman. The one redeeming factor is the performance of Kate Trotter as the detective on the job. She won't take crap from anyone, including the writers for that matter. She's fun to watch and worth the price of admission.
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3/10
We are the real loosers
jleon2517 April 2018
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Ok folks, here we go again how the media over empowers dumb women and makes men look like idiots. To start with, if you are going for therapy because of a non existing or lack luster sex life, Why aren't you in couples therapy? If you are seeking advice from a 'so called therapist" about your marriage and they advice you to start an affair outside your marriage, RUN, and RUN FAST, unless you are looking to get a divorce.

The insertion of the murderer into the mix is just more proof these writers are running out of ideas and Lifetime is out of touch with reality. They should stick with movies based on "true stories". Stories based on real true happenings in peoples lives. Instead of these ridiculous and unbelievable circumstances.

It would be interesting to actually see a real therapist review this stupid idiotic movie and their perspective on the counseling given to these women on how to save their marriage.

In the end, we see one these woman dead, the therapist dead, one of them was exposed of cheating by the dead one, before she got killed, she was the one doing the murders and exposing the other 2 because one of them was cheating with her husband and the other did not know it. See where I am going? Yea nowhere and totally screwed up. The lawyer ends up single. The other one start to amend her marriage. The question is, do we even care.

I wasnn't paying much attention to the acting. They did the best they could with the ridiculous writing. Topping off the ending, the murdered is stabbed in the heart yet was able to scat away in a matter of seconds to bushwhack the other dumb wife. The hart stab didn't kill her but the stairs fall does. OK?
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1/10
Muuhh
wowcorp21 September 2020
Another failed attempt at intrigue and mystery. Though the cast is strong enough to pull off this trite script, left in the hands of so called director dimarco, we are offered a poorly executed and rather boring piece of fluff. Had the director had any vision or panache this film would have fared better, but leave it to dimarco to hack his way through the script with absolutely no clue as to what he is doing.
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7/10
Good movie...
bhakta_allison6 January 2009
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...but the ending was just too abrupt with husband calling to talk to his wife (Charisma Carpenter) right after Meredith said her good-byes. It is the typical cautionary tale of what happens when certain boundaries are crossed. I did like Meredith getting her comeuppance at the law firm. She was a hateful person who was cruel to those who worked under her. For once, the big shot got shot down. It was great for her to sweat when the firm partners showed Meredith was came up on the Internet re: her sexcapades and how the rest of the office laughed at her once she left the firm President's office. For once, Meredith knew what it felt like to be humiliated and played. Be careful how you treat others in business. Karma is not fun...
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