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6/10
Music too loud
sadatshah-8135018 April 2020
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This was a pretty decent TV movie with quite a good plot. Unfortunately many of the parts were ruined by the loud music where I could not even hear what the actors were saying.
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5/10
very loud music....but she enjoyed it...
afterdarkpak21 January 2021
Its a very low budget Tv movie , the whole movie is shot in house , in a furniture store. the performance is so so. watch this movie if you nothing good to do or just kill time. i watched in fast forward , probably in 30 mins. so many boring n stupid stuff.

the loud background sound effects are very annoying. i had to watch the movie in subtitle and lower the volume to understand the movie. and also the ending is kinda very stupid.
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4/10
"That's a God awful accent..."
peteratskegness28 March 2020
A line from this film which sums up its major flaw.

The evil twin is not an orginal concept, just the manner in which the plot is executed. In this case, not bad and on the whole, well acted albeit but best not to try and scrutinise the storyline too deeply!

It's epic fail for me was the awful fake "Mockney" accent - for the stereotypical English villain. Unfortunately nobody living in England has ever had such an accent. It's very distracting and really pointless, ultimately ruining what would have been a watchable film.

Probably best viewed with sound muted and subtitles on.
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Lifetime has better twin movies
CranberriAppl8 June 2021
Not knowing your husband has a twin is one thing...you won't know unless he tells you. However, not noticing something is "off" about your husband's body during sex is ridiculous. There's another Lifetime movie called My Sister's Secret (or A Sister's Secret) where a husband does not realize his "wife" is the twin, and they pull a similar thing by saying the couple was going through problems and he could "see" a change in his wife (after they sleep together).

I grew up knowing several sets of twins (at least three or four, both kids and adults). The longer you are around them, the more you'll learn their differences. Even when they seem to be identical. They are different people. I realize for the movie to work, she can't "know" right away, but they wasted no time having them sleep together when "Derrick" returned home so they knew what they were doing. Shouldn't she have an eerie/icky feeling she can't understand? I can't imagine it being as simple as "wow, he's trying new things." I know most people's default is not "omg this isn't you, it must be a twin," and we the audience have the benefit of knowing, but the deception is just not always believable. I also don't know why this would be a secret even if the brothers were estranged. There's another twin movie (I also reviewed it) where keeping it a secret worked against the "good" twin. If your brother hates you, wouldn't you want your wife to know...just in case? She still would have no reason to believe it was the brother. It also is a pretty huge secret to keep from your wife.

There's nothing new here, and it's pretty predictable. I was prompted to write this review because I recorded it this week and realized I'd seen it before. It's not the worst, but there are better "twin" stories on the network. There's also a 90s movie with twin brothers that this probably draws from who's name escapes me. It's going to bug me that I can't remember the title.
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1/10
Straight to TV Daytime Film
graham_watkins4 February 2021
Who gets up one day and thinks 'you know what, I'm going to make a really bad film with wooden acting and incidental music so loud that you can't hear the actors speak?' Clearly that's what the director of The Wrong Husband, Ben Meyerson, thought; and boy did he delivered. You'd think when they check the film before releasing it someone would've said 'I think the mood music is too loud.' But no, that's how it was released. Then there's the tree-like acting. So wooden it's probably a fire hazard on hot days. The lead actress, Charlotte Graham, does a semi-decent job of playing her part, but the rest of the cast appear to have taken acting lessons from Pinocchio. Maybe the director's nickname is Geppetto? I managed to watch 18 minutes before I decided to go to the dentist for a root canal procedure that I suddenly decided I needed.

AVOID THIS FILM.
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2/10
The Wrong Kinda of Movie
cynet-523321 February 2021
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Oh this film is awful on so many levels. How anybody thought this was a good idea they need to look for a different career.

The movie is not an original idea as we all know but the British version of the character talking with an accent from the 1930's is just not realistic. Honestly I got angry with the actual British cartoon bad man personia.

The American character of the twin was a wet lettuce who I didn't feel sorry for one bit.

The wife of all this sorry saga didn't ruse the fact that twins have different bodies in with regards to their manhood. So she failed to recognise fully she was being banged by a fraudster who might have had a bigger or smaller one. All she could notice that the sex technique was different and apart from that bingo great sex.

The best friend of the wife is as thick as two planks of wood and the acting was atrocious with a touch of wooden to match too

Overall the performance was cheap as chips and hated every minute of this naff movie.

Worst movie of 2021 so far for me.
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1/10
Bad at script
biswashok10 August 2021
Non sensical movies poorly madas stupid as other tv thriller movies..not convincing.
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7/10
Loved Charlotte Graham!
hoops-534365 May 2022
The plot of this movie was bizarre. Really kind of unbelievable- too many wild things. The writers and director thought that we would believe Melanie could crawl into bed with a fake Derrick and not know he was a fake? C'mon, all the parts might be identical but it just couldn't happen that way. However, the movie held our attention better that several of the ones we have seen lately. And Charlotte Graham did a great job with the part of the fooled wife, although she took a ride on the clue bus a lot earlier than most LMN women do. Movie on its own would have been a 5- add two stars for Ms. Graham!
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2/10
Wronged;
Stanlee1071 February 2021
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Omg this film is a typical TV movie. The plotline is so thin & the dialogues are so amateurish that you cannot take it seriously at all... How could the "wife" not recognise it was not her husband'! The worst/ most offensive element of this film is the "dick van dyke Mockney's school of English accent... I.E from the Mary Poppin's film". If that is what some American think British people sound like then I shake my head in despair!

The actor that plays the dual role needs to go back to acting school or better still get locked up in the jail of London Tower, until he realises and apologizes for the "mockery" of the Queen's English. He has offended the Queen & her loyal British Citizens!
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7/10
City of Brotherly Love
lavatch22 April 2021
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"My Husband's Secret Twin" (a.k.a., "The Wrong Husband") was a well-crafted thriller based on the time-honored story of Cain and Abel. Of the two brothers, the bad seed is Alex Saxons, rotten to the core, who is described by his brother Derrick as follows: "He was just born bad!"

Alex masterminds a plan to kidnap his brother, lock him in chains, then impersonate him, stealing his fortune and even his wife. The action unfolds from the perspective of Derrick's wife Melanie, who recognizes that something is amiss when she returns from a business trip to Chicago. After sleeping with her "husband," Melanie tells her bestie Alisa that something seemed "different" in the boudoir.

With no assistance from a dim-witted police detective, Melanie is on her own to discover the nefarious plot of Alex. The key in her quest is the documentary proof that Derrick had a twin brother. It is now a race against the clock to expose Alex and rescue both Alex and Alisa, who are captives.

The actor playing the twins was effective in developing two contrasting characterizations. The use of British and American accents was helpful in differentiating the characters. Some of the best moments were when Alex was talking to himself in motivational monologues, pumping himself with encouragement like, "C'mon, boy!!! You are Derrick Saxons!!!"

One of the most interesting characters was Raymond Crawford, an apparent investor about to purchase the rights to Melanie's clothing store called The Hanger. In an interesting twist, Raymond is in cahoots with Alex, who will take over the estate left by Derrick and Melanie after their demise.

The film's denouement could have been tidier in wrapping up loose ends about what actually happened to Alex. Did he die? Did Raymond die? The end was very abrupt without offering closure to a saga of the bad apple named Alex Ellison Saxons.
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Crap audio
haroot_azarian10 July 2021
As well as what one contrbutor said about twins not being able to told apart being far-fetched or something in those lines which I totally agree I would hasten to add the audio was crap! Good job there was CC otherwise I wouldn't have understood most of the dialogue!
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