Taste of His Own Poison (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Rhonda Dent, Nolen Dubuc
Director: Soran Mardookhi
Writer(s): Leo McGuigan
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Inspired by true events. Courteney wishes she could do more to help her teenaged son Dylan, who’s being tormented daily by cruel bully Sawyer. Sawyer loves to steal Dylan’s lunch every day but never faces any consequences. Until one afternoon when Sawyer steals Dylan’s lunch, takes a bite of his sandwich… and immediately drops dead in the cafeteria. The police investigation unearths a shocking discovery–Dylan’s lunch was poisoned, and the police believe the boy did it deliberately to punish his bully. Courteney faces a devastating dilemma as she tries to prove her son’s innocence, and wonders whether he truly could be capable of murder. Stars Rhonda Dent and Nolan Dubuc (2025).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Inspired by true events.
The movie begins with a teen named Dylan running through the hall of his high school. A kid named Swayer chases him into the bathroom. The Bully steals Dylan’s lunch and drops it on the floor, and forces him to eat it. While Dylan eats the dirty sandwich, Sawyer calls his mom a whore. The incident is interrupted by Dyan’s friend Meredith, who comes to his rescue. Later, Dylan gets into an out-of-character fight with Sawyer after he tells him his mom is hot. The boys have a proper feud.
The principal calls the boys’ parents, and the mothers are at their wits’ end. Sawyer’s mom, Andrea, tries to discipline her son, and he pushes her and knocks her over in public before rushing off with his brother, Evan. Dylan, on the other hand, is grounded.
Courtenay, Dylan’s mother, is secretly divorcing his dad, Ben. Ben has been neglectful of his family. They also have differing views on raising their son.
Sawyer hangs out with his older brother and drinks beer. This brother is the worst and gives him a knife. The bad blood doesn’t subside and only gets worse. Sawyer doesn’t get a chance to use his knife because when he picks a fight with Dylan and eats his lunch, he goes into convulsions and dies. Later, the autopsy shows that Swayer was poisoned.
Detectives question Dylan and accuse him of intentionally poisoning Sawyer. His parents end the line of questioning, and the police release Dylan from their custody. When Dylan gets back to school, someone keeps turning the lights off on him and writing “MURDERER” on the wall.
Meredith checks on Dlyan, and when he tries to kiss her, she literally throws up. She is either repulsed by him or pregnant.
Sawyer’s mother and brother are outraged that Dylan is walking the streets. Evan hatches a plan to pose as a pizza delivery guy to break into the home and stab Dlyan to death. Courtenay smashes Evan over the head, and they run to safety. Ben comes home and beats Evan badly. Courtenay feels like Ben might have poisoned Sawyer. Ben denies having any involvement.
Andrea stops by Courtenay’s restaurant to apologize for her son’s behavior. She called the police on her son because she knew he was going over to their house to get his revenge. Then, in a roundabout way, Andrea accuses Dlyan of poisoning her son. Courtenay is like, WTF!
Courtenay goes home and overhears her son admitting to murder on the phone to Meredith. Courtenay wants to call the police immediately. When detectives arrive, Ben isn’t going to let his son go down, and he confesses to the crime. Ben hugs his son goodbye and asks Dylan to live a good life.
Courtenay goes along with it, but the relationship between her and Dylan is strained. Courtenay won’t let her son forget that he killed a human being. Obviously, Dylan spends less and less time around his mother. Courtenay talks to Ben in jail, and he encourages his wife not to give up on their son.
Dylan and Courtenay have dinner at her restaurant to reconnect. The waitstaff tells Dylan that he was wrongfully accused and deserves an apology. Courtenay has a full-on panic attack from lying, and she can’t keep up the facade. Courtenay decides to tell the truth to the police and sets out to give evidence anonymously.
Courtenay does some motherly snooping and discovers that Meredith is pregnant with Sawyer’s baby. Meredith poisoned Sawyer when he wouldn’t take his fatherly responsibilities. Courtenay tells her son he is doing the wrong thing, letting his dad take the fall for Meredith. She makes him take her to Meredith.
Meredith hides under the bleachers, and Courtenay tries to talk to the teen. Andrea sees them talking and hits Courtenay with a bat. She forces Meredith into the trunk of her car, and Andrea kidnaps them both.
Andrea knew about the pregnancy all along; Sawyer told her before he died. Andrea plans to keep them tied up until Meredith gives birth. It isn’t the best plan, and it is easily thwarted when Dylan shows up to save them. Courtenay and Meredith untie themself.
Courtenay tries to reason with Andrea, who has a fire poker. Eventually, Courtenay wrestles the fire poker from Andrea, and the cops are called. Meredith has the baby in prison.
STRAY Thoughts
Fun to see a real-life husband and wife, Jonathan Hawley Purvis and Alana Hawley Purvis, in the same movie.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪 (1 knife)
Lifetime Tropes: High School Bully, Fire pokers, Kidnapping,
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷 (2 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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This one started off good, but then got way too all over the place plot-wise towards the end. And the reveal with the pregnancy was the cherry on top.
At least they got an actual 17 year old to play the son, and not a guy in his late twenties/early thirties pretending to be a teenager
True! And he was in Billy Elliot in Canada, so we love a theatre kid!