The wife is an ugly selfish mean witch! She treats her husband like crap yet says she forgives him for straying. She then cheats on her husband at her work conference and comes home with a freaking hickey on her neck. WTF??? She irked me to watch honestly.
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1 out of 5 married couples cheat on their spouse. If the producers are lucky 1 out of 5 viewers may find this made for TV film interesting. I didn't.
Ed-Shullivan17 August 2021
Statistics prove that 1 out of 5 married couples cheat on their spouse. As in the case of this made for TV film, My Wife's Secret Life, the producers should count themselves fortunate if 1 out of 5 viewers find their film interesting.
The acting is decent but the made for TV film plot about husbands and wives who cheat on each other (one time) has been beaten to death verbatim.
A one hour drama could have summed it up without missing anything even remotely intriguing. It was predictable, lacked any type of suspense, and a cookie cutter ending.
I give it a 4 out of 10 IMDB rating.
The acting is decent but the made for TV film plot about husbands and wives who cheat on each other (one time) has been beaten to death verbatim.
A one hour drama could have summed it up without missing anything even remotely intriguing. It was predictable, lacked any type of suspense, and a cookie cutter ending.
I give it a 4 out of 10 IMDB rating.
Dreadful
Cilica24 November 2020
I've watch bad movies to view which could be the worst. This movie is close to the worst. The wife doesn't have a secret life. One night stand is a secret life? The characters go between loathing each other to love in one scene to the next. Strange flow, and predictable, bad script.
No chemistry
nightroses23 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
There wasn't much chemistry or love between boring husband and his busy wife. So when she ends up having a fling on a trip, that wasn't the end of it. The man she met on her trip is a psychotic stalker.
Then the married couple change and become extremely in love. Certain things such as the strange guy who falsely accused husband of violence was never explained.
With these kind of films, it's not really satisfying when the main characters put an end to the villain, because I wanted the police to do that instead.
Then the married couple change and become extremely in love. Certain things such as the strange guy who falsely accused husband of violence was never explained.
With these kind of films, it's not really satisfying when the main characters put an end to the villain, because I wanted the police to do that instead.
One night stand, gone wrong.
LifetimeUncorkedPodcast7 October 2019
The movie dragged in the predictable final act, but overall pretty solid offering from Lifetime. The actors all had good chemistry and grounded performances.
I added a star for all the gratuitous shirtlessness Matthew MacCaull.
I added a star for all the gratuitous shirtlessness Matthew MacCaull.
Be careful about business trip flings!
phd_travel9 October 2019
A woman has a one night stand on a business trip. But he wants more and goes after her. Her husband had cheated before. Things come together and there is a reason for the wacko.
The pace directing acting are good even if stories like this have been done before. This one is one notch above the average Lifetime psycho stalker movie.
The Case of the Mysterious Hickey
lavatch14 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
"My Wife's Secret Life" is all about indiscretions. At one point in his marriage, divorce attorney James Briggs was unfaithful to his wife Laurel. After years of therapy, there is still tension in the marriage. But after attending a conference for her work, Laurel brings home a hickey from a one-timer of her own. In a case of karma, Laura's indiscretion was with the disgruntled psycho husband of one of James' clients. Kent Anderson (a.k.a., Ray Patterson) is determined to ruin the Briggs family.
The filmmakers maintained a fast pace to the action in the cat-and-mouse game Kent is playing with Laurel and James Briggs. Kent is even successful in wooing Aunt Angela, who occasionally serves as the nanny to the Briggs children, Joshua and Daniela. By "scoring" with both Laurel and her sister-in-law, Kent has proven that he has a unique skill set, and he likes to think big!
Lifetime fans simply adored Kate Villanova in the role of Laurel. Her best scene was in portraying Laurel's heartfelt confession to James in her "moment of weakness." She was having a bad day, had drunk too much wine, and, ah heck!, I am so sorry. Everyone wants to see Kate in more Lifetime pictures.
Another interesting character is the private detective Ari Sheffler. It is through Ari that the Briggs learn that, at age twelve, Kent witnessed his alcoholic mother murder his father with a knife. Kent is now living off his credit cards and is tracked by Ari to a mountain cabin where he plans to do away with both Laurel and Briggs, marry Angela, and raise little Joshua and Daniella as his own children!
A theme of the film emerges when Laurel and James are attempting to hold their marriage together, and Laurel opines, "We fight each other and not FOR each other." Kent Anderson-Ray Patterson affords them the opportunity to literally fight to save their marriage and their lives, as well as making the mysterious hickey only a minor infraction in "My Wife's Secret Life."
The filmmakers maintained a fast pace to the action in the cat-and-mouse game Kent is playing with Laurel and James Briggs. Kent is even successful in wooing Aunt Angela, who occasionally serves as the nanny to the Briggs children, Joshua and Daniela. By "scoring" with both Laurel and her sister-in-law, Kent has proven that he has a unique skill set, and he likes to think big!
Lifetime fans simply adored Kate Villanova in the role of Laurel. Her best scene was in portraying Laurel's heartfelt confession to James in her "moment of weakness." She was having a bad day, had drunk too much wine, and, ah heck!, I am so sorry. Everyone wants to see Kate in more Lifetime pictures.
Another interesting character is the private detective Ari Sheffler. It is through Ari that the Briggs learn that, at age twelve, Kent witnessed his alcoholic mother murder his father with a knife. Kent is now living off his credit cards and is tracked by Ari to a mountain cabin where he plans to do away with both Laurel and Briggs, marry Angela, and raise little Joshua and Daniella as his own children!
A theme of the film emerges when Laurel and James are attempting to hold their marriage together, and Laurel opines, "We fight each other and not FOR each other." Kent Anderson-Ray Patterson affords them the opportunity to literally fight to save their marriage and their lives, as well as making the mysterious hickey only a minor infraction in "My Wife's Secret Life."
More Kate Villanova PLEASE!
DavidSKS14 April 2020
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