4/10
Keeping watch
27 March 2016
This Lifetime made for television film tells an interesting but slightly campy look at voyeurism.

Susan Wilson (Angie Harmon) moves back to her Louisiana hometown with her family. They are given close attention by neighbour Steve Glover (Jamey Sheridan) who comes across as a little too overeager and creepy.

Susan becomes concerned when he seems to be privy to private conversations with her husband, Gary (Dale Midkiff) and sneaks into the his house to discover videotapes of herself in the shower and in the bedroom.

It seems Steve has secretly installed surveillance cameras in their house and has been taping them. To her horror she finds out that the police can do little about this as this type of voyeurism was not a crime. Worse the local church group are more forgiving of Steve and critical of Susan even when it emerges that other people in the town have also been secretly videotaped by Steve.

Susan campaigns to make this type offence a crime and takes the matter to court.

The film is earnest for Lifetime film but does come across as insipid. The neighbour is just too creepy from the word go, everything is black and white when their should had been more shade in characterisation. Harmon does well in the role who at first is shunned by many in the community for bringing the allegations against Steve. However there are flaws in the film. We are told that there was no audio in the tapes, so how did Steve know what Susan was talking about in her house?
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