MY HUSBAND'S DOUBLE LIFE/ BLINDED BY LIES

US, 2018, 86 minutes, Colour.
Amy Nuttall, Daniel Lapaine, Chloe Sweetlove, Dragan Micanovic, Tamara Aleksic, Katarina Korsa.
Directed by Jonathan English.

This is a popular television movie for an undemanding audience, wanting a thriller, wanting some twists in plot, wanting some melodrama.

The focus is on Fletcher, Australian actor Daniel Lapaine, who professes love for his wife, Sabrina, Amy Nuttall, and his teenage daughter, Zoe, Chloe Sweetlove. But, he is a busy businessman and is off on a trip to Paris, puzzling his wife, his daughter asking to come with him, but his claim of important business, trips which have taken him to Paris over many months.

Fletcher is revealed to be an absolute rotter, setting up another family in Paris, marrying the daughter of his business partner, their having a child. His business partner has a Slavic background and they are involved in big deals but also money laundering.

Sabrina decides to surprise her husband and arrives in Paris, with a lot of the plot involving his having to do a lot of doubletalk, get his secretary to organise things, visit his wife and son, keep his wife away from the new family. Then he has the idea to buy a ticket for his daughter to come to Paris so that he can divorce his wife and set his daughter up with his new family. The business partner sees Fletcher and Sabrina together and becomes even more suspicious. His suspicions concern not only the business succeeding but also in protecting his daughter.

Audiences will be eager to watch everything come to a head, Sabrina taking matters into her own hands, the hostile reaction of the new wife, the bewilderment of the daughter arriving, the pressures from the business partner. Fletcher is completely self-centred, making all kinds of excuses and specious reasoning, building up to a confrontation and, of course, Sabrina defending her daughter, hitting Fletcher over the head and his falling into the vast swimming pool – dead.

Not claiming to be a masterpiece, it is a piece of popular thriller/drama entertainment.