Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. Rick Benes, a journalist setting out to expose Miranda, poses as David Lopez, an illegal immigrant, and takes a job in the office. Carla stubbles on incriminating files and Rick Benes pursuit of the story is threatened when he becomes infatuated with Miranda. Carla is attacked and her husband murdered, Miranda is the chief suspect. As the investigation progresses and Carla disappears from hospital, it is clear that Miranda will stop at nothing including murdering again to stay out.
Acting
Melanie Griffith's increasingly unhinged line delivery is art.
Production
Somehow both overlit and underbudget. 2005 TV movie magic.
Writing
Dialogue so clunky it achieves accidental poetry.
Director
Robert Markowitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Robert Markowitz also helmed the equally unhinged 2000 TV movie 'Cabin by the Lake' about a serial killer who drowns women then gardens. He had a niche.
This arrived at peak 'desperate housewife as sociopath' TV movie era, when networks greenlit anything with a blonde woman holding a knife on the poster.
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