Stranger With My Name (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Layla Cushman, Celeste Blandon,
Director: David Benullo
Writer(s): Jesse Mittelstadt, Richard Switzer
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After taking a job in a new town, Alice gets into a car accident and awakens to discover that her husband doesn’t recognize her, another woman has assumed her identity, and all records show that Alice is not who she says she is. Stars Layla Cushman, Dina Freberg, and Matthew Pohlkamp (2025).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
The movie begins with a couple, David and Alice, enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner. Alice doesn’t seem to be feeling so hot and has a gash on her forehead. David wants to propose a toast, and Alice seems to want to GET AWAY. Alice begs David to let her be with their daughter, and she hears a banging upstairs. Alice rushes upstairs and sees something that horrifies her.
Cut to five days earlier, Alice and David move into a new house and seem like the perfect couple, having been together for 21 years, but we know that is not how things end up. Alice has just received a new job and is making twice her salary. Alice calls her college-age daughter, Chelsea. Chelsea says that change is good and encourages her mother to embrace change.
While unpacking, Alice finds a box of old letters and asks David about them. He says it’s nothing to worry about and asks his wife to hurry up because they’re late for a house party.
Alice’s old college roommate, Sidney, welcomes Alice and David to the party. Sidney got Alice the job and introduces her to all her new coworkers. David keeps getting phone calls from his job and says he needs to leave early. Alice stays behind, and a friendly coworker, Ellie, who is good with numbers, offers to give Alice a ride home.
Ellie asks Alice about her husband and talks about being married to her job. Ellie has been with the company for six years and is estranged from her family. As she speaks, Ellie drives faster and more recklessly. She eventually crashes the car.
Alice wakes up after a two-day coma. She is confused and becomes frantic when the doctors call her the wrong name and tell Alice that she was the only one in the car. Alice storms out of the hospital, and when she was found, she had no ID, a broken phone, and her wedding ring was missing.
Alice goes to her home, and David acts like her doesn’t know her. David tells Alice that she must be confused and calls his wife, NEW Alice. Alice faints and is taken back to the hospital. No one from the party remembers seeing Alice there, and the police can’t get in touch with Sidney. Alice tells the detective that her daughter can verify she is who she says she is, but the number has been disconnected. The police say that Chelsea died five years ago.
Doctors fear Alice has severe head trauma and memory loss. Another patient in the hospital gives Alice her car keys, and Alice uses them to escape. She tries to call Sidney, but there is bad reception. Alice also googles her daughter, and there are no search results.
Alice breaks into her own home to search for evidence that she is who she claims to be. There is a terribly photoshopped picture of New Alice, and a utility bill that might have the original Alice on it. Alice overhears David and NEW Alice talking to the detective, who thinks things aren’t adding up.
While she sneaks out of the house, Alice runs into her new neighbor, Carole. Carole is the first person to recognize Alice and helps her figure out what the heck is going on. Carole is kooky, and I love her. Alice decides that if she can’t prove who she is, maybe she can prove who NEW Alice used to be. David and NEW Alice work for the same company, and her real name is Lisa.
Oh dang, Carole is in on it too. Carole gives Alice some roofied tea and calls someone when Alice passes out. When Alice wakes up, she hears Carole talking to someone in the kitchen and is surprised to find Carol bludgeoned to death with a meat tenderizer. Alice rushes out and goes to the address listed on her new ID.
Ellie is at the house and was being blackmailed into giving Alice a ride and crashing the car. Ellie packs a bag and tells Alice to just start her life over, but Alice wants to find her daughter. Ellie says that the people arranging all of this are dangerous. They rush to the garage, and as Alice opens the door, Ellie is killed by someone in the backseat of her car.
Sydney comes home from her work trip and finds a broken Alice crying on her front doorstep. Sydney makes some coffee and promises Alice that everything will be okay, but also thinks none of this makes sense. They try to talk it through, and Sydney is quick to blame New Alice. They follow New Alice to the company offices, and Sydney’s key card sets off an alarm.
The IT guy tells Sydney that someone has changed her credentials, and Sydney wonders if this is really an attempt to get rid of her. Alice is just collateral damage. While the IT guy hacks a computer and sees a coworker transferring money into her personal account, which is unusual because one would think they’d cover their tracks better. He is hit in the head and killed. Sydney acts like she was clobbered, too, but was she?
Alice finds the letters David wrote and reads them. They are about getting rid of Alice, but ALICE ISN’T GOING DOWN LIKE THAT!
Alice confronts David, and he hugs her intensely, telling her they are being watched and to play along. We are back to the tense romantic dinner, with a little more context than we had before. BUT NOT MUCH!
This time, when Alice opens the door, she finds New Alice tied up. Alice unties New Alice and is convinced David is the bad guy, but he is being blackmailed, too. New Alice beats up David until Alice takes her out with a flower vase.
David admits to sending the letters, but they weren’t from New Alice; they were from Sydney. Sydney actually met David first and went to extreme lengths to get Alice’s life, conning everyone into doing her evil bidding and then killing them.
Alice and David fight off Sydney and rescue Chelsea from a barn where she is being held captive. Sydney follows them and talks more about her plan to frame Alice and David for everything.
MORE fighting happens! This time with a shovel.
The police arrive and everyone is saved, except for the like four or five people Sydney killed. The police detective apologizes for getting it wrong, which is a big of him.
Three months later, David and Alice are moving out of town. They pack up the moving van. The end!
STRAY Thoughts
While this was a mystery, at least it was well paced.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪🔪🔪 (4 knives)
Lifetime Tropes:
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
Should you watch it?
Pour it Up (Give it a shot!)
Put a Cork in It (Skip It!)
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I really enjoyed this one. It was super tense. I loved the tenacity of the lead woman. Never get in the way of a mom. She was good. I felt bad for all of the people that —–used just to get back at 2 people. I had an inkling it was them from the beginning. They gave a little clue in the initial conversation they had. I agree, the pacing was well done. I never felt bored. I actually had to pause it a couple of times so I could get something important done, because I didn’t want to miss anything.
My husband was the IT guy! Thanks for your review.
Amazing! He was great!