SYNOPSICS
To Love, Honor and Deceive (1996) is a English movie. Michael W. Watkins has directed this movie. Vanessa Marcil,James Wilder,Leland Orser,Rosalind Chao are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1996. To Love, Honor and Deceive (1996) is considered one of the best Crime,Drama,Mystery movie in India and around the world.
Sydney Carpenter was happy as a housewife devoted to her husband Matthew and their little boy Adam, till they both die in a boat accident. Shortly after she's irritated when local PD Det. Jim Sanders tells her probably nothing can be done, but soon she finds him most helpful, especially after FBI Special Agent Kyle Lassiter insists he walks away from the case. They dig on as she is the target of more criminal visits, discovering Matthew had a dark past and got into the witness protection program, but are told that his staged accident actually killed him...
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A Big Surprise
This story starts out very calm and quiet in a average American town with a married woman, Vanessa Marcel,(Sydney Carpenter),"Storm Watch",'02, who is offered a career in the film business, which she had prior experiences. However, she loves her husband, Thomas Gibson,(Matthew Carpenter),"Come Away Home",'05 and her little son and decides to stay home and be a good mother and wife. Matthew Carpenter does very little communicating with his wife and they do manage to sleep in the same bed and things do happen, once-in-awhile. It is at this point that I begin to wonder just what is going to make this film interesting and is it going to be a good mystery. As this film progressed further, I was very much in for a Big Surprise and never stopped looking at the screen. Vanessa Marcel all of a sudden appears are a very charming young woman who has an outstanding female figure and is full of life and determined to find out some very dark problems in her marriage. You will enjoy this film and it will keep you guessing right to the very end.
Frustrating stew of credibility problems
Not sure what I expected, but in many ways this was a disappointment of a thriller. The protagonist's (Vanessa Marcil) attitude, her intent from the very beginning to get her son back (but not the husband), had me confused. A little back story of marital problems would have been most welcome -- especially since the actor portraying the husband (Thomas Gibson) acted rings around the official police detective love interest (James Wilder). The whole FBI subplot thing -- including the courtroom scenes -- had no credibility at all, and Agent Lassiter (Leland Orser) was such a chore to watch that at one point I considered just turning the blame thing off. And the wife's best friend (Rosalind Chao) was never even given the dignity of a name. Maybe some other viewers will be satisfied with the ending. I do not feel that much of a job was done knitting up plot lines. I was left thinking, "Wait, is that all there is? What about A and B and C?"
One Great Movie!!!
This movie was a great movie , great plot , and even though the actors weren't that famous they did a good job acting. It is truely too bad that this movie didn't recieve the recognition that it truely deserved because this is a good movie . I recomend this movie to everyone , no matter what your type of movie you prefer because this movie will make your day . Jeremy
Mrs. Carpenter is a Force of Nature
In most films like "To Love, Honor and Deceive" (a.k.a., "The Protected Wife"), the opening scene includes a disclaimer about how the movie is based on a true story. But this one is so far-fetched that the filmmakers don't even bother trying to add this touch of realism. The focus of the film is on a character who is clearly a force of nature: Mrs. Sydney Carpenter. Upon meeting her for the first time, the sleazy criminal named Bennett says, "this is a woman not to be underestimated." Indeed, Mrs. Carpenter will stop at nothing from learning the truth about her liar of husband and the whereabouts of her little boy Adam. The husband, Matthew, who has some charm and genuine affection for his son, has led a double life of good family man versus smuggler and bigamist. Mrs. Carpenter is left holding the bag when Matthew and Adam appear to have drowned in a storm. But the quick-thinking Sydney realizes that something is amiss when she learns that the husband failed to take the radio along with him. Something is fishy, and it's not the sharks that are supposed to have consumed Matthew Carpenter and little Adam. Mrs. Carpenter always has her radar antenna in working order. She detects lies in her best friend and realizes that the friend had an affair with Adam. She also smells a rat in the careerist FBI agent who is not coming clean with her. Of course, the police are incompetent, especially the pretty boy, Detective Jim Sanders, who becomes Sydney's lover in the course of the investigation. All of these juicy plot details are not realized to the full because of the bargain basement dialogue and wooden performances. The most outlandish scene is in the courtroom where Mrs. Carpenter is miraculously able to get an instant trial alleging malfeasance by the FBI agent. But during the trial, her hotshot attorney does not even cross-examine the perp! While this was, for the most part, an entertaining drama, it lacked tension and effective pacing to truly evoke interest and suspense.
deceit can be so entertaining !
This movie really starts slow,but right when you are ready to give up on it,it starts moving at really good pace.The acting is much better than most made for television movies and the plot is full of twist and turns.Most of the cast does a great job,especially the female lead.Thomas Gibson surprisingly enough makes a great creepy husband and of course thinks only of his own diabolical self.James Wilder manages to mug his way through in his usual,look at me brooding,style of acting.It always amazes me that these people fall in and out of love in an hour and half,I guess they are strapped for time.Not a perfect movie but very entertaining,very enjoyable.