20 Jul 2010

The Client List – Review

Last night, Lifetime premiered the new Jennifer Love Hewitt movie, “The Client List.” The premiere gathered about 3.9 million viewers! I’m not all that surprised considering how much hype was going around the movie. It was well-publicized to the point that I almost felt it didn’t even need to be on Lifetime let alone a Lifetime Original. I don’t think it was a good enough film to be shown in theaters, however.

Samantha Horton, an ex-beauty pageant queen married to her high school sweetheart quarterback, has three children and no income coming in. The couple are on the brink of foreclosure and struggling to find ways to make ends meet. With her husband recovering from a previous injury, Samantha Horton feels the pressure on her shoulders to support her family and put meals on the table. Sam has hope that her previous skills from being a physical therapist will be put to good use at the Kind Touch massage parlor, but she is caught off guard when she realizes that her clients expect more than just a good rub down.

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The last time I truly appreciated her in a film was in my all-time favorite Can’t Hardly Wait! Her acting in The Client List was so-so. I felt like I developed a love-hate relationship with her character Sam Horton. I sympathized with her when she couldn’t afford to put gas in her truck to go home and even felt sorry for her after her first day at work. The part that we didn’t sympathize with? Every time Samantha brought up, “A pretty girl like me shouldn’t be poor!”

Samantha Horton was getting in pretty deep with her prostitution, but they might have crossed the line with the coke habit. Maybe?

Who else wasn’t impressed by the ending?

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