If this were to be a series I could understand the ending...and I would continue to watch every week...
Finding out after watching this TWO HOUR movie, that left me hanging. Not only do we see her finally able to not be in the witness protection program...we don't know who she was going to attend the dance with.
Horrible ending. I was so disappointed.
I just watched it and agree with everything you said... Did they ever say why her family was killed or did I miss that part? The ending was completely rushed and felt unfinished. They could have just cut out all the parts with Jo and Jesse (the art guy) to add more to the story. That whole plot seemed unnecessary. Their relationship didn't go anywhere.
shareEven a short sequel would have been better than nothing...sigh. Nope, their relationship went nowhere. I'm glad it wasn't just me who was disappointed.
shareYeah most lifetime movies are guilty pleasure type movies and have similar story lines and such, but usually they wrap them up pretty nicely at the end. I was a bit disappointed that the movie just ended. You spend 2 hours watching the movie and then you get no closure with any characters or the plot in general. It could have been pretty decent had they given more closure at the end.
shareI wanted to see how her life would have gone once she didn't have to hide any longer...sigh.
shareMe too.. By the way, did you happen to catch why her parents were killed and why they were after her? I know they wanted her dead also because she witnessed the murder of her parents, but what was the initial reason? I don't know if I just missed that part or if they never fully explained it.
shareI don't think they actually went any deeper into it. Although the movie was great and I wanted more; it never occurred to me that we didn't know the real reason...sigh. Thanks for pointing that out. If you ever find out, let me know. Somehow I think we'll never know.
shareSome of that confusion may depend on how you watched the movie. As it was aired on Lifetime, parts were cut; the movie is longer in it's DVD release. Approximately 1:29 on Lifetime, after commercials, 1:36 on DVD. I didn't see the Lifetime version, but they may have left out some of the parts that would have made what you asked clearer. Though even on the DVD they didn't go into great detail about that. I guess you weren't supposed to think too hard about that, and just go with it. One of the many reasons the movie was bad, bad, bad.
shareThis wasn't really a Lifetime movie though. It was a movie produced by Dolphin Entertainment that went direct to dvd but ended up getting a TV distribution deal with Lifetime. It wasn't made for lifetime so it wouldn't have the same format as most movies made for lifetime.
I watched the dvd version because the editor claimed parts of the movie got cut in the airing on Lifetime but it looked pretty much the same to me. I wished there was more thought put into it. Decent premise but not the best execution. Tyler Blackburn's character was unnecessary(Jo wasn't supposed to be doing art for a good reason she didn't need him to lead her back to art), not enough focus was put into the mafia angle, and it lacked a proper conclusion.
I didn't realize it wasn't a Lifetime Original Movie. I could had sworn that they referred to it as a Lifetime Original before the movie started. Lol. Come to think of it though, many of the really good "Lifetime" movies were shown and debuted on other channels like ABC, CBS, etc. before they started being shown on lifetime. For example, 'No One Would Tell' with Candace Cameron and Fred Savage was originally shown on ABC. I remember watching it when it premiered. There are others as well. Many people don't know that and all these movies become known as Lifetime movies. Oh and another thing that has always bothered me is how Lifetime will change the name of a movie when they show it. For instance the movie 'Stephanie Daly' with Amber Tamblyn was changed to 'What She Knew' when it started being shown on Lifetime. Anyone know why the do that?
shareI find it amazing that this piece of trash was released on DVD, when so many far, far superior movies never get put on disk. What a travesty.
And the ending was beyond belief. Of course she would have been relocated immediately; the authorities had no idea if the killer told his bosses where she was before he went there. Logically, he would have. Out of caution, they would have moved her right away. Plus, she was already outed at her school as not being who she said she was.
But for this kind of movie, I shouldn't be surprised. Logic is irrelevant. A happy ending is all that is required.
I disagree with one thing you say, though:
"It wasn't made for lifetime so it wouldn't have the same format as most movies made for lifetime."
True, it wasn't made for Lifetime. But it definitely followed the same format as most Lifetime movies. Mostly in that everything is (unrealistically) resolved in the last 10 minutes, like all their movies are, but in just about every other way, too. Pure formula.