Trust Her if You Dare (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Jennings Rice, Carlo Marks, Katelin Chesna
Director: Linden Ashby
Writer(s): Melissa Cassera
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySynopsis (via Lifetime)
Felicity Reynolds, a woman on the run with a dark past, discovers a murder at her spa and finds herself caught in a deadly web of lies.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
The movie starts in Wilmington, North Carolina, which is really specific. We see our protagonist, Sarah, coming home in a leather jacket, like a badass, until she hears footsteps in the house. She does some investigating and finds a set of keys with a football key ring and, probably more importantly, a dead body. The intruder is still in the house and chases after her, but Sarah gets into her car and drives away, avoiding a spray of bullets. She pulls into a bus station, ignores a call from a hunk named Darren, and jumps on the first bus out of town.
Cut to a motel in Atlanta, GA, where Sarah cuts up her ID and credit cards and assumes a new identity, Felicity Reynolds.
Darren tells people in town that he hasn’t heard from Sarah and goes to her house to check on her. He finds nothing out of place, but he does look through an old photo album with a theatre ticket from the Atlanta Playhouse.
Sarah/Felicity calls her friend Olivia from a burner phone to let her know she is okay. Olivia is conducting a background check on Darren and a man named Joshua, who has a checkered past. Next, Sarah/Felicity visits her older sister, Erin, at work and interrupts a presentation. Erin isn’t happy about the family reunion and asks what Felicity wants.
The sisters get coffee and catch up. Erin doesn’t want Felicity in her life. Felicity was dating a bad guy, who broke into Erin’s house with a gun. Felicity has a history of bad boyfriends. Erin tries to keep Felicity’s unwelcome visit from her husband and teenage daughter.
Meanwhile, Darren’s search for Sarah continues. He looks through the photo album again and this time finds a program from Erin’s high school graduation. He looks up the name and finds out Sarah is really Felicity. He and Joshua decide to reach out to Erin directly. They set up a meeting.
Leighton overhears her parents talking about Felicity being in town and sneaks out to the motel where her aunt is staying. She takes a rideshare to the sketchy location and is immediately approached by a strange man. Thankfully, Felicity shows up and stops him. Felicity promises not to disappear from her niece’s life this time.
Darren meets with Erin and is surprised to hear that Sarah/Felicity has a pattern of getting into trouble and running away. Erin wants nothing to do with her sister and gives Darren the motel where Felicity is staying to get him off her back. By the time he arrives, Felicity has already checked out.
Remember that random body from the beginning of the movie? Well, a blonde jogger comes across it while on a run through the woods and screams for help. The body belongs to Grant. (A man who was blackmailing Felicity and Darren.)
Felicity goes to an old friend for a gun. He just pulls one out of a safe and tells her to be careful. She stays with the gun guy, whose name is Ryan, and tells him her trouble with Darren. They all started a Spa together (RANDOM!), and Darren was stealing money from the business. Grant found out, and Darren killed him. Felicity found the body and got the hell out of there. (But can you trust her story is the truth if the movie is called, Trust Her if You Dare?)
An intruder breaks into Ryan’s house and attacks Felicity while she is alone. Ryan comes home and stops him, but ends up getting stabbed. He tells Felicity to run, and she rushes to her sister’s house. Erin doesn’t believe her sister and sent Darren to Felicity. Felicity begs them to get rid of Darren when he pulls into the driveway.
After Darren is gone, Erin takes Felicity to their family cabin to hide out from Darren. The police station is right down the road, and he won’t know where they went, so it seems like a good plan. Except that Darren follows them, of course!
At the cabin, the sisters wait for word from Olivia when the coast is clear. Erin goes to the grocery store while Felicity builds a fire. Giving Darren his chance to make his approach. Felicity defends herself with a log as Darren tells her that he didn’t kill Grant or attack her and Ryan. Someone is setting him up.
Darren seems just as confused as Felicity and the viewers are. What is going on here? There is a lot of talk about blackmail, money, accounts, and lying. Whocares! This movie is annoying me.
Darren goes to the spa, which resembles a house and features only a cheap-looking red light mask. He finds Brittney, the receptionist there, and scares her half to death. Darren continues to look through the spa and finds a pack of matches (WHO CARRIES MATCHES IN 2025?) Someone knocks Darren out and smashes his cell phone.
Erin and Felicity visit Olivia’s office to see what she has learned about Grant. Still, Olivia is too busy to help them and dismisses them. Erin doesn’t trust Olivia and thinks she is hiding something. Next, they meet up with Darren’s friend Joshua, who makes them tea, and Erin starts to feel ill.
Erin goes to lie down, and something isn’t right. She calls her husband, who is in Paris, and tells him things aren’t good. Then she passes out. Meanwhile, Felicity is talking with Joshua and finds a matchbook. He is the bad guy, and like, whatever!
Felicity pulls a gun on him, and he tells her she has the wrong guy. Then he grabs the gun and holds Felicity hostage while Darren tries to break in. Darren and Joshua fight over the gun, and Darren gets it. Felicity goes to check on her sister, leaving the men to talk it out.
Joshua tries to convince Darren that Felicity is the delinquent and that they are just businessmen. They fight again, and Felicity rushes in to try to calm them down. The police pull up, and as Felicit distracts Josh, Erin wakes up and knocks him out.
Leighton gets into her fancy Paris college. Erin and Felicity are friends now. Felicity is going to start a spa in town. I hope it is better than her last one!
STRAY Thoughts
This kind of narrative, where you can’t trust the protagonist or anything you’re seeing/hearing, all for a reveal of some random character who you don’t care about being the killer, is so unsatisfying.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪 (1 knife)
Lifetime Tropes: Sisters, Bad Boyfriend, Murder Mystery
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷 (1 Glass 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 production company’s movies have been sucky lately. But I’ll be tuning in anyways for Jennings!
Yup, I was right. This one was bad. I’m tired of 8 out of 10 lifetime movies nowadays being a whodunnit/murder mystery. Only for the bad guy to turn out to be the most obvious character. I literally pegged that Joshua guy right from the get go. Everything about him screamed: “I’m the killer”
I totally agree with everything in this comment. Enough with the tired whodunnit formula
Lifetime chopped the movie off just before the ending tonight. Commercials kept cutting show off bluntlt too. Something not right
I like Jennings rice, she is a very talented actress. But respectfully this was one of the worst movies this year on the network.