Woman with the Red Lipstick

I can't believe this screenplay was made into a movie. So many plot holes and unrealistic occurrences! I'm not talking eye-rolling. I'm talking jaw-droppingly stupid. It makes absolutely no sense that everyone is trying to find a stalker/abductor but no one is actually trying to find the missing girl! In fact, when the person is arrested that is believed to be the one that abducted the missing woman, everyone is relieved like it's all over! Even the missing woman's mother calling the reporter on the phone and talking about how she didn't suspect a certain man and the whole time her daughter is still missing and she doesn't even seem upset!! No one acts like that! The mother would have been much more concerned about where her daughter was than about them finding whoever took her! That would have been her chief concern! That would have been the police's concern! And then, at the end of the movie, when the police are insisting that the "heroine" ride in an ambulance to the hospital? It's abundantly apparent there's nothing wrong with her and yet just a few feet away is the young woman who was abducted, mistreated, and who knows what else was done to her, and no one is insisting that she go to the hospital, that she be examined. The writing is, oh my goodness, so unrealistic!! Ridiculous movie. Save yourself some aggravation and do not watch it!

Calling this inspired by true events is a stretch. There are couples who really role play. Women are really stalked. Women really disappear. The "reality" behind this story, as best as I could determine, is a series of vague generality and interpretation. It's more like, this could happen if any reporters were this naive. The end is, not surprisingly, predictable. Rebecca Liddiard does a decent job of carrying her character and could do better than this role. The story itself is both tired and predictable. If you've seen a few Lifetime movies, this one doesn't deliver anything new. If you're looking for true crime stick to "ripped from the headlines".

The Woman with the Red Lipstick is supposed to be a thriller but after watching it, I was far from thrilled. Lucy Compton, is a journalist with the Chicago Tribune. Her boyfriend, Roy, thinks their relationship lacks spice and has her don a blonde wig, wear red lipstick and a scarf and she's supposed to pretend she's Maggie and go to a bar where he's called Jimmy. A few days later, she's watching the news and they're reporting on a wealthy Chicago socialite named Magnolia Maines who's been missing and thinks back to the role play of Maggie. Is there a connection between Roy and the missing girl? This whodunit was predictable with flat acting and many continuity flaws by a weak Canadian cast. NOT recommended unless you're bored out of your mind.