Film

Deadly Infidelity

Name: Deadly Infidelity
Genre: TV Movie, Thriller, Romance, Mystery
Released: 2022
Cast: Kate Watson, Anna Marie Dobbins, Houston Rhines, Emary Simon, Jacob Taylor

A woman wakes from a car accident with amnesia, only to have a charming stranger convince her they're lovers. As her memory fragments return, his story crumbles and the truth becomes dangerous. It's a brisk, paranoid thriller that banks on the unreliability of perception—fun if you enjoy watching someone gaslight themselves into peril.

TMDb rating

3.6

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like a memory-loss puzzle played straight, where the real question is whether the man claiming to be your lover is telling the truth, and a modest romance curdles slowly into suspicion.

Skip it if you want the stylish, twisty sweep of a big-budget thriller; this is a TV-movie with modest ambitions, and its suspense leans on a familiar setup more than surprise.

What it asks of you: Settle in for a brisk 85 minutes, staying close to Grace's confusion and asking you to track who is lying as the pieces return.

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