I don't think this Movie was completely bad, but I think it could have been so much more. I feel it had a good premise, but the idea's needed to be developed on more. I won't write plot as this has been covered already but what I will say is development in a story is very important. Although the story line still progressed I think it would have made the movie more suspenseful, which I feel it needed in order to rate better. There were some good Scene set ups, but again they seemed to fall short in development before moving on, I was thinking I want e.g. more close calls. I enjoyed the relationship between Jessica and her Mum, the manipulation that was apparent. I think It had the most development in the story and helped me to understand Jessica's Character. The main antagonist in the film. I think what I wanted from this movie was more of a showdown between Jessica, Renee and Cameron. I think Characters whose reputations were on the line would have fought to cover up more, they weren't as intelligent as you would expect for corrupt characters. It had all the makings for an excellent Crime drama. Jessica had so much more potential, and while she was good I don't think she was excellent.
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kapelusznik1829 January 2016***SPOILERS*** The movie shows just how far people in power will go to get their way even as far a murder. Thats's what junior VP of Mickelson Pharmaceuticals Jessica Slate, Jamie Luner,did to get this drug Ezporine approved by the FDA after it was discovered to be fatal to anyone who uses it. It was the honest as the day is long Dr.Don Renfro, Gary Hudson, who got the news from Gena Ferris, Sophie Gendron, that her picture of health husband Mike suddenly dropped dead after using the drug.
With the news of Ezporine not exactly cracked up what its said to be the wonder drug of the 21th century Jessica is desperate to get it approved by the DEA and make a mint off it before its found to be fatal to anyone who takes it! Jessica has no trouble getting these two sniveling "Girly Men" as "Arnold the Terminator" calls them to do her dirty work for her. By having Paul Winslow, Brett Watson,who works for the DEA to get the drug approved in her blackmailing him as well as getting her co-worker the gutless coward Cameron Finney, Linden Ashby,to whack Dr.Renfro before he makes his findings about Ezporine public. There's also the matter of Jessica's mom Hannah, Lois Dellar, who threatens to expose her shady past, in murdering her step father when she was 12, unless she paid her off with a new car and house in the country.
***SPOILERS*** It was Cameron who after whacking Dr. Renfro with a tire iron in an all night Bowling Alley who was spotted by a local hooker,Cinthia Berke, who later described his rented red car to the police and Dr.Rebfron's daughter Renee, Ashley Leggat, who tracked the car down to have been rented by Cameron that spelled both his and his boss Jessica's doom. Interrogated by the police Cameron facing life at best and the death penalty at worse broke down and spilled the beans on what Jessica was all about to get a much lighter, 25 years with a chance for parole,sentence. Giving her big pitch about the drug Ezporine to an overflow audience of wildly cheering Mickelson employees Jessica slapped with a pair of handcuffs and taken away by members of the FBI and local police. That's for her to stand trial not just for ordering Dr. Renfro's murder but participating in the drowning murder, in her bathtub, of her mom Hannah's as well. -
marsmitchell7911 February 2017It's one of those movies that you watch the 1st time and you'll give it an 8, because your standards are not really high. The time that I looked more closely at the minor details, I give it a 4! Plenty of errors in the writing of this one. A prostitute claims she could not make out what the criminal looks like in the night, but somehow she's able to tell what's on his license plates from a distance. Then, her friend just so happens to be an IT tech wannabe, which she needs to find out who murdered her dad! The executress allows her mother to blackmail her over a murder that happened when she wad a kid! Then, she just so happened to know when her mom would be in the tub, despite being out of her house for 6 years or more! The director did not care about 20-something lady's acting either. When her dad died, she felt like she let him down and she did not cry! A husband dies out of the blue and he looks like he's been cut in the face.
The stock option part does make sense(probably the only major part that does make sense), because the 2 execs really did not care about the company--only about getting paid. A problematic miracle drug would swamp a company with lawsuits, but they didn't care. The reason why it makes sense is because the 2 execs got paid and left-- regardless of what happens to the company. -
jimmerw12 June 2013As a Canadian, I am used to seeing these awful movies that our tax payer dollars pay for.
But after my 47 years on this earth, I don't think I have ever seen a movie worse than this.
Everything is bad. The main characters are abysmal actors. And the supporting cast is even worse.
At first this felt like an after school special meets a soap opera. But then it just got worse.
It isn't even visually pleasing. The main character looks like a squinting duck. And she is cast as the attractive one.
What enrages me is that my tax dollars went to make this visual abortion. I clicked on 1 star, only because that was the lowest I could rate this. I don't know how this movie could have been worse. It is the poster child of how not to make a movie. I want to meet the film maker, and beat him. My tax dollars made this. Why???????
I am disgusted that my tax dollars went to make something worse than a high school production. -
punishmentpark27 June 2015I watched the trailer on 13th Street and was looking forward to a bad film that would still have a true milf in it, namely Jamie Luner. It turns out they put in only the most becoming shots of her in the trailer, because mostly she looked very tired throughout the film. Tired, as in: not such a good nip and tuck job. And there a couple more such people in the film, none of them being very good actors (understatement).
For the rest of it, this wasn't the bad TV-movie as expected, it was way worse. Boring, silly, unbelievable, those kinds of adjectives, and lots of them. I don't know how exactly Canadian tax dollars are involved here (read that in another review here on IMDb), but that would truly have been unfair to the hard working people of Canada, for sure.
2 out of 10, because of my sympathy for Jamie Luner in spite of it all. -
rps-224 November 2014This is not a bad film. But I have given it a low rating because it is yet another of these Canadian conceived, Canadian produced, Canadian shot, Canadian tax funded movies that cravenly ARE SET IN THE UNITED STATES!!!!! It is demeaning, embarrassing, frustrating and self- defeating. It is one thing when American companies come up here to shoot their own movies. But it is INFURIATING when Canadian film makers do not have THE GUTS to set their stories in Canada. They and the government justify it by claiming that it creates work for Canadian actors and film makers and that it is necessary if a film is to be sold in the US. NONSENSE! The Australians seem to turn out some pretty good product that is set in Australia. In this case, Ottawa was used as a set for a sort of ill defined New York City with American cops, American license plates, the American FDA and that surefire giveaway: American flags all over the place. Why didn't these billious wimps have enough self confidence to set their story in Toronto where there is indeed a sizeable pharmaceutical industry. (The story is about FDA approval of a dangerous new prescription medicine.)
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(2013) The Perfect Boss THRILLER
Made-for-TV movie from "Lifetime" now available for rental starring Jamie Luner as Jessica Slate who's been transferred from another business to be a CEO of a particular pharmaceutical company. It's a new drug and just when this company brought her in, someone dies from the drug. The next thing you know she sleeps around with some very important executives that could get the drug passed through the FDA. What happens next is routine. Upon looking at this movie as a whole reminded about all of those soap opera shows, since the entire environment is so polished with much of the characters obviously wearing way too much makeup that would've been acceptable in a soap opera environment but too artificial for everyone else's tastes. -
lavatch9 November 2019In this pharma drama, the perfect boss is Miss Jessica Slate, who takes over the failing Mickleson pharmaceutical company with the goal of turning it around in the span of one month. Her goal is to use her connections (i.e., ability to sleep with and blackmail the right people) to have an FDA rush-job approval on the new wonder drug, Ezaprine.
Standing in Jessica's way is a doctor on the Mickleson advisory staff, who discovers that special populations are at risk from the drug, which has already taken the life of a healthy man in a clinical study of the drug. Jessica moves into action to stop the kind Dr. Renfro from revealing the dangers of the drug. Dr. Renfro is thereby murdered by Jessica's lover and hatchet man, Cameron Finney, who is up to his neck in gambling debts and fearful for his life if he does not carry out Jessica's marching orders.
The most interesting relationship in the film was that of Dr. Renfro and his rebellious daughter, Renée, a medical student whose father landed her a part-time job at the Mickleson corporation. Renée uses the opportunity of being in her late father's workplace to sniff around and use a software program called Sniffer to discover the criminal element in the tag-team partnership of Jessica and Cameron.
Renée was a rebellious youngster, who displeased her father with a predilection for partying and lack of discipline. But the 4.0 student comes into her own during the film, as she admires the integrity of her dad and indeed follows in his footsteps for the pursuit of justice.
As for Miss Slate, her forté was in the ability to make an entrance and at party and the motivate workers to excel. The motto that she instills into her staff is: "Eat, drink, and breathe Ezaprine!" Some of the liveliest scenes in the film are those between Miss Slate and her crusty mother, who is blackmailing her daughter. It turns out that the daughter is a chip off the old block as she herself extorts others and ends up drowning her mother in her bathtub! While Miss Slate is always looking to make a big splash with an entrance, her true calling is, in the end, the dramatic moment of making an exit. -
mckaleybuell4 June 2013I love this movie so much. It's EPIC and I love movies like these on LMN. It's a great thriller/mystery/suspense movie. Thrillers are my favorite genres. This is by far the BEST movie that premiered on LMN. I would recommend this movie to everyone who hasn't watched it yet. Everyone would love it. I would give this movie a 10/10 which is an A+ not only because of how great it was, but also because the actors/actresses. Jamie Luner and Ashley Leggat did amazing in this movie and we're really good with the acting. Same with Linden Ashby, he was amazing as well. They played their roles very well and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie again in the future sometime on TV or if it'll be available online to see the full movie. That's my review!
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hero-4685122 February 2022Loved this MysterySuspense movie. Good script/actors. Beautiful scenes. I like guessing location & year movie made. Got it right! (Watch it & try to work those out!) Modern/fashionable. Ok. Concept seen before but beautifully presented & very entertaining. Credible. (especially for a free midday movie!!) Can't believe the low rating on this site. Are the raters all disgruntled directors, actors, scriptwriters editors or film crew employees who all got knocked back after applying?? ; )
Highly recommend it for entertainment. Well done Reel One!!! 10 STARS. -
geoffox-766-41846716 November 2017Once again we are forced to watch this 46 year old female strut around with this bush of hair on her head. Attempting to be a sex symbol (NOT) and making just about everyone miserable in this loser of a flick. I have never liked this actress. I think she looks ridiculous and desperately needs a haircut and to act her age. In everything she does she looks the same. I, for one, am not a fan as you see. Her looks kill any acting she might do, which is mostly one level. Please, please LMN no more Jamie Luner.