The People Next Door (1996 TV Movie)
7/10
Dramatized but still very disturbing
7 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Anna has three children and really loves them, but she's barely able to afford to take care of them, plus her domineering b!tch of a mother and an abusive ex-husband. When she moves into a new town she meets her charismatic next-door neighbors, Garrett and Donna.

Garrett and Donna begin spending more and more time with the three children, until one day Anna's worst nightmares come true... Sally and Billie have been kidnapped, and only Laura remains. Donna and Garrett turn out to be not so charming as Anna thought, and in truth they're master con artists... and what happened to their real daughter, Meghan? With the help of a caring police lieutenant and a friend from her mom's diner, Anna stops at nothing to find her children.

The People Next-Door is very disturbing, although highly dramatized. Garrett is downright creepy, the actor did a very good job at portraying such a corrupt man. I loved the 1990's-style soundtrack, movies today need soundtrack like this.

I really enjoyed this movie, for a Lifetime movie it was very well-done and a big improvement on some of the ones that have recently come out (2013).
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