Mom Claire and son Kevin are having trouble with the garage door when the friendly and helpful kid next door offers help. Noah is the nephew of the old guy next door and offers to go the hardware store with Kevin to buy parts to fix the door. Kevin is insecure and allergic. Claire is separated from her cheating husband but not divorced. He stops by to spend time with Kevin. Claire's friend, played by the catastrophically malnourished Chenoweth, tries to set her up with men. We learn that both of Noah's parents died in a car accident, so now he's living with the uncle who's about to undergo a bone marrow transplant. Claire happens to to be a literature teacher at the high school. Her interest is the Classics. So is Noah's who will enter the same school as a senior.
Now good friends with Kevin, Noah spends a lot of time at the house and starts getting more and more seductive with Claire until he manages to get her to have sex with him, even though for no good reason she protests until the very last second how wrong it is.
While Claire sees the episode as a one-time mistake, Noah apparently is in love and wants her for himself. So when he spends time with Kevin he undermines his relationship with the dad. And sure enough, the impressionable Kevin falls for it, almost getting himself and the dad killed while driving the awesome purple Dodge Challenger. Since Claire doesn't respond to Noah, he gets crazier and more aggressive. He lets her know he has photos and videos of their encounter. One day he plasters her classroom full of the pictures. That forces Claire with her friend to deceive Noah. While he follows the friend in Claire's car, Claire breaks into his house to grab the evidence and finds the typical crazy guy's lair who has the walls covered in pictures of Claire. Things get more violent and dangerous until she confronts him.
Every couple of years we get these obsessed lover videos and they usually work--you get the likable attractive victim and the attractive but demented lover. The problem is that all these movies go overboard crazy, instead of going for subtlety, which would be so much more effective. They should take their inspiration from The Gift (2015) to see how subdued tension works much better. I have noting against Lopez as an actress. She's beautiful especially when she gets to smile and be playful, like in this movie. I enjoy her teenage girl voice, too, but not when she tries to sing. The Claire character here is interesting, because she's too good-natured and I guess all along she has a crush on Noah that she's not able to be more aggressive herself in putting an end to things quickly. This movie is well directed and looks good too. It portrays complicated family life well and is even critical of the money-above-all-else mindset. It works well but doesn't offer anything to truly stand out among others of its kind.
Now good friends with Kevin, Noah spends a lot of time at the house and starts getting more and more seductive with Claire until he manages to get her to have sex with him, even though for no good reason she protests until the very last second how wrong it is.
While Claire sees the episode as a one-time mistake, Noah apparently is in love and wants her for himself. So when he spends time with Kevin he undermines his relationship with the dad. And sure enough, the impressionable Kevin falls for it, almost getting himself and the dad killed while driving the awesome purple Dodge Challenger. Since Claire doesn't respond to Noah, he gets crazier and more aggressive. He lets her know he has photos and videos of their encounter. One day he plasters her classroom full of the pictures. That forces Claire with her friend to deceive Noah. While he follows the friend in Claire's car, Claire breaks into his house to grab the evidence and finds the typical crazy guy's lair who has the walls covered in pictures of Claire. Things get more violent and dangerous until she confronts him.
Every couple of years we get these obsessed lover videos and they usually work--you get the likable attractive victim and the attractive but demented lover. The problem is that all these movies go overboard crazy, instead of going for subtlety, which would be so much more effective. They should take their inspiration from The Gift (2015) to see how subdued tension works much better. I have noting against Lopez as an actress. She's beautiful especially when she gets to smile and be playful, like in this movie. I enjoy her teenage girl voice, too, but not when she tries to sing. The Claire character here is interesting, because she's too good-natured and I guess all along she has a crush on Noah that she's not able to be more aggressive herself in putting an end to things quickly. This movie is well directed and looks good too. It portrays complicated family life well and is even critical of the money-above-all-else mindset. It works well but doesn't offer anything to truly stand out among others of its kind.