What Would You Kill For? (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Steve Byers, Laura Provenzano, Rayisa Kondracki
Director: Sean Cisterna
Writer(s): Grace Knight
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After Min’s ex-husband and business partner is found dead in their restaurant, she becomes the prime suspect. Desperate to prove herself and protect her adopted daughter, can Min figure out what really happened–and who she can trust? Rayisa Kondracki, Laura Provenzano, and Steve Byers star (2025).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
We start off in a restaurant with some stock footage of baking. Min is the owner/chef who works long hours to maintain her high standards. While Min takes out the trash, she is approached by her ex-husband, Rick. He wants to talk to her about selling the restaurant and warns her not to sell to Ben. (The new guy she is dating.)
Min doesn’t listen and literally goes back inside and sells the business to Ben’s company. They enjoy dinner and celebrate with wine, but Rick and his new girlfriend, Emma, interrupt the party. Rick REALLY doesn’t want the deal to go through, but the deal is done.
Rick and Min have a teenage daughter, Rosie, over whom they are in a custody battle. Rosie is adopted (or maybe a test tube baby?) Rosie wants to meet her birth mother, who occasionally sends letters. (I like this actress, she is so fun and natural.)
Ben drives Min to the restaurant on her way to work, and they makeout in the car; there is no conflict of interest since the deal is done. Min finds Rick dead in the deep freezer and calls 911. Emma shows up randomly and declares her boyfriend dead. (She is the medical examiner.) On Rick’s phone, there is a message from Min about setting up the meeting, making her seem like a suspect. Emma warns Min that the messages are incriminating and the detectives will piece things together.
Speaking of Detectives, we meet this movie’s hard edge, Detective Johnson. He questions Min and asks about Min’s signature dish… which is a parfit. The autopsy report shows that Sinonyde positioned Rick. Rick’s death is ruled a murder.
Emma spends time with Rosie and gives her an early birthday present: A CAR! Emma says it is from Rick, but Emma is probably Rosie’s birth mom. (Right?) Min is pissed at the overstepping and scolds her daughter for accepting such a gift and driving at 15 without a permit. That is the least of Min’s problems because someone leaves a threatening note on her car and breaks into her home. The weird thing is that the handwriting on the note is Rick’s, and the show prints are his size. IS RICK ALIVE?!?!?
Ben brings Min some pretty pathetic-looking flowers as condolences for Rick’s death. Min stopped trusting Ben after finding some emails on his work computer, but all is forgiven, and they are back on.
Not that Min really has time for dating. Min wears a disguise and looks for clues at her restaurant. It is still an active crime scene, but Min isn’t deterred. She hardly gets any investigating done before getting knocked unconscious. Rosie and Aunt Becky find Min and take her home to rest. Aunt Becky also has some papers that show Ben bought the restaurant for the land and bribed the building inspector to say the restaurant was falling apart and a bad investment. Min tries to pull out of the deal, but Ben has a signed contract.
At the demolition, a body is found. (Well, it is more of a skeleton from Party City.) Ben cries hysterically. The body belongs to Rosie’s birth mother. So, the letters that were sent for years were fake. (These letters suddenly go missing from Rosie’s room; could that be what the break-in was all about?)
Rosie meets with Ben to find out why he is so upset about Lily’s body being found. Ben tells Rosie that Lily was his sister and ran away when she got pregnant to get away from an abusive boyfriend. Ben has been trying to get close to Rosie because she is his niece. Rick was allegedly Lily’s abusive boyfriend and hid her body on the restaurant floor.
Min still tries to piece the evidence together, and she thinks that the evidence points to her. That evidence is even stronger when Rosie almost dies from some poisoned cereal.
Aunt Becky stupidly goes to Rick’s cabin alone and is murdered. She finds the killer and ends up killed. Before she dies, she drops a pin and sends it to her sister.
Min and Ben rush to the cabin and find Becky on the cabin’s doorstep. Becky gasps her last breaths while Min screams at Ben to call 911. Detective Johnson shows up and investigates.
Rosie is left home alone and calls Emma because she doesn’t want to be alone. Emma listens to Rosie’s questions about her dad and birth mother. Emma explains that Rick and Lily got into an argument, and things got out of hand, but who can explain it better than Rick himself. Rick is alive. Emma helped him fake his death. Rick takes Rosie to the woods and tells her everything.
Things get out of hand, and Rosie realizes her dad is a monster killer. Rick almost kills his daughter in a fit of rage, but Ben and Min rush and stop him. The police arrest Emma and Rick.
Ben, Min, and Rosie celebrate her birthday. Does Rosie keep the car? She probably did!
STRAY Thoughts
Also Known as The Flavor of Death. A disgusting title.
Dull Dull Dull
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Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪 (2 knives)
Lifetime Tropes: Murder, birth mother, abusive boyfriend, mother-daughter relationships
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷 (1 Glass of Wine)
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Knew Rick faked his death. Stopped watching at the first 30 minutes. And am now reading your recap to see what happened in the movie
I do watch them so you don’t have to! This one was a struggle.
If I recall, the actors playing Min and Rick were in another LIFETIME film 6 months ago, where there were also hero and villain.
Wait how did I miss that Ben was the boyfriend? I must not have been looking when they made out. There was nothing between them. Plus she never smiled once in the movie so .. how?