Who’s Stalking My Family? (2024 Lifetime)
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Cast: Kate Watson, Jacob Kaufman, Kennedy Martin
Director: Jeff Hare
Writer(s): TBA
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After teenager Sadie starts tutoring a new older boy, her mom Ivy fears that he’s developed feelings for her instead. Soon, the situation escalates into downright terror when it becomes apparent that someone wants her dead. Stars Kate Watson, Kennedy Martin, Jacob Kaufman, and Muretta Moss (2024).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
A woman, Ivy, awakes from a nightmare about a pregnant lady getting threatened by a disembodied voice that the voice person will steal the baby and raise her as her own. Is the sleeping woman the pregnant lady or the disembodied voice?
Ivy lives in a beautiful house and wants to be a “cool” mom; she tells the boy her daughter is tutoring to call her by her first name. Even though it makes him uncomfortable. Ivy invites Colton and his mother to join them for dinner, but he declines because his mother works in real estate and is too busy.
Lily, Ivy’s sister, is mentally unwell. She is in an abusive relationship, and Ivy promises to help her sister get out of it. Ivy invites Lily to move in with her and pushes her to file for divorce. Pete, the husband, blames Ivy and threatens her on her college campus. (Ivy is a professor up for tenure.) Ivy’s co-worker steps in and then later invites her out to dinner. (Smooth move, bro!))
Sadie inexplicably gives Colton the security code for her house after he tells her he left some of his textbooks at her house. She can’t give them to him because Sadie is going out for a movie night with her mother and aunt. Colton lets himself into the house and snoops through Sadie’s room.
A neighbor sees someone outside of Ivy’s house with a gasoline tank and confronts the hooded figure. The neighbor gets hit in the head and dies. Ivy finds his body and feels unsafe.
Colton unexpectedly stops by and randomly makes Ivy a Baked Chicken dinner. Saide comes home, finds Colton with her mother, and thinks it is sweet, even if her BFF Jen tells her that it is weird. Colton gets jealous when he sees Ivy going on a date with her co-worker and fakes that she is sick. He ditches Sadie to spy on their date from across the street. Ivy notices Colton and freaks out a little. She texts Sadie to see if they want dessert and learns Colton left early.
Ivy tells her sister what is going on and is creeped out. Lily and Ivy should be creeped out by Peter, who continues to stalk them and fantasizes about stabbing them with knives.
Sadie meets up with Colton and pretends she is spending the night at her best friend’s house. They go up to a makeout spot, and Colton hears a noise and goes out to investigate; he is just playing a prank on her and does a jump scare. Colton opens up about losing his father and his father’s last words to him. Colton’s father was about to leave his mother and ended up dead at the bottom of the stairs.
Ivy learns about the sneaking out and talks with Colton’s mother. They agree to keep the kids apart for a while to keep them out of trouble.
Pete shows up at Lily’s work and tries to apologize with flowers. He promises to stop drinking and offers to go to couples therapy. Lily isn’t having it.
At this point, the movie paints Pete as totally unhinged, but Colton isn’t much better. Are they both stalking the family? Pete shows up with a gun and tries to kidnap Lily, but Colton intervenes and looks like her.
Maybe no men are good in this movie; Leo seems to be having a lunch date with another woman. The woman turns out to be Leo’s sister, who is opening a restaurant. Is Leo a straight-up shot in a drive-by shooting? Leo survives, but Pete turns up dead, and his time of death proves he couldn’t be responsible for the drive-by shooting. Pete also has an alibi for the neighbor’s killing.
Colton appears at Ivy’s door and yells that he is her son. He hands over DNA proof. He found the adoption papers after his dad died. Ivy explains she and Colton’s birth father were on drugs, and he died of an overdose. The adoption was closed, and Ivy never met Colton’s mother. They realize SHE has been stalking the family.
Saide finds a photo of her and her mother in Colton’s locker, and Colton tells her the truth. Sadie becomes upset and leaves school; she goes to Colton’s house to talk but finds only his mother. The mother has turned into the villain. She knocks Sadie out with a tire iron. Then, she throws her in the trunk of her car.
Colton and Ivy rush to save Sadie and search the house. Saide wakes up and calls for help from the car. The mother, Angela, begins her villain monologue. Colton interrupts her. He tells her how great of a mother she was to him. He takes the tire iron away and hugs her. They just walk away?!?
Everyone celebrates Ivy’s birthday at Leo’s sister’s restaurant. Colton says his mother is doing the best she can. However, he won’t ever be able to forgive her for what happened. Then the conversation just moves on to Colton’s college prospects, and he moves in with the family.
Side Note/Stray Thoughts
The movie kind of got sidetracked with Pete, and then just killed him off-screen?
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪 (2 knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷 (2 Glasses of Wine)
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Was it just me, or was Lifetime a bit disappointing this year with its movies.
I agree! Not my favorite year of programming
Hallmark can make 200 movies using only 3 different plot lines, Lifetime could try something similar. They tried so many wild plots this year.
Ughh…do better. Giving your door code to a kid you are tutoring. Daughter gave me Chelsea/Hilary Clinton look. The aunt, unfortunately not the best actress. And so may crazy eyes amongst the actors and actresses. Oh well, I was warned😅