Her Life is on the Line (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Jessica Morris, Carly Diamond Stone, Adam Huss, Andrew Fultz
Director: Haylie Duff
Writer(s): Jeremy M. Inman, Aaron Strongoni
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Hard-nosed talk radio personality Sarah Williams receives an on-air call from a man claiming that a murder will occur by the end of her late-night shift. It’s up to Sarah to figure out who this is and why he’s doing it… before it’s too late. Jessica Morris, Adam Huss, and Andrew Fultz star. (2025).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Jessica Morris plays self-help podcast host, Sarah, on the show Sarah Cares. She advocates for women to STAY ALIVE by making the right choices and trusting their instincts. Sarah gives advice to callers with tough love, but doesn’t feel like she is doing enough. Her producer, Michelle, tries to reassure Sarah that she is making a positive change.
A listener, Alice, should have been paying attention because she is kidnapped from her home after a date. The irony is that the kidnapper is an avid fan and listens to Sarah’s show nightly.
An executive, Emily, from a bigger podcast network, wants to expand the show. It comes with a big pay bump, new producers, and a bigger reach. Sarah is hesitant to leave her current callers behind and considers herself a therapist/podcaster who helps people. (Which could be a liability.) An angry caller calls in a bomb threat and tells Sarah she gives bad advice. Sarah also gets threatening voice mails, and someone scribbles “DIE DIE DIE” in her notebook. A network change could be beneficial. A hot detective tells Sarah to stay out of trouble.
Sarah goes home to her husband and daughter, Maya. Sarah and David are in a secret separation to keep up appearances for the show. David has started dating another woman, and it is time for them to come clean to their daughter about what is really going on.
The creepy caller makes it on air and weirds Sarah out. She tries to listen, but asks her producer to track the call. Sarah tells him on air and calls him a manipulative loser. Just as she is about to hang up, the caller threatens her and calls Sarah a fraud. (Exposing her secret separation.) Then a woman is heard screaming on the line; it is Alice, the woman from the beginning of the movie, who is dating David. Maya is next on the kidnapper’s list. Sarah and David frantically try to get Maya to safety before it is too late. Sarah calls the hot detective for help.
The caller has all the lines blocked, and no one else can get through. He has a few rules to keep the conversation going.
1) No Cops (too late for that one!)
2) Sarah has to be honest
3)Break any rule, and Alice pays the price.
Sarah comes clean about her rocky relationship with David. The caller blames Sarah for ruining his relationship, even though she can’t keep her own relationship together.
The Hot Detective goes to Alice’s house for a welfare check and finds David there. Sadly, they don’t kiss, but they do clarify that Sarah is single and ready to mingle. If she doesn’t end up with the hot detective, I will be upset! I live vicariously through Jessica Morris. The hot detective traces the call and finds where Alice is being held captive. A man in a flannel attacks the hot detective, but David saves him. They are a regular buddy cop sitcom.
Next, the caller throws Producer Melissa under the bus and plays voicemails she left to try to stop the new deal from going through, so she can stay on as the show’s producer. Melissa claims not to know who the caller is, but the studio is bugged and a surveillance camera is installed, so how did it get there? Melissa goes to building security to see who could be responsible, but the security guard is busy living his best life, eating Chinese food.
Maya calls into the show and is confused as to what is going on. She is in rehearsal, but the caller wants Sarah to tell her daughter EVERYTHING. Sarah tells Maya about Alice and David. Maya can’t comprehend that her parents are no longer together and have been lying about it for over a year. Sarah then REALLY tells all. Her father killed her mother after suspecting she was having an affair. They had an explosive fight that we see through flashbacks. Sarah saw the entire thing, and it was the most traumatic thing she had ever witnessed. Sarah blamed herself for the incident.
Alice manages to escape her captor, and she tries to make a run for it.
Meanwhile, Maya goes home and hears her mom’s podcast episode streaming on her laptop in her room. She is kidnapped to replace Alice.
Luckily, David and Hot Detective are close to finding them. They find Alice and think that everything is safe, until they find a body with her.
The caller is using a voice modulator to place the call, and it turns out to be EMILY, the fancy network executive. Emily shows up at the studio with Maya. Sarah tries to talk some sense into Emily, but Sarah ruined her life. Emily lost her family, job, and life because of what Sarah told Emily’s husband on air. Emily wants revenge and holds the podcaster at gunpoint, forcing her to read a statement on air stating she is unqualified to give advice. (Which is probably true, you shouldn’t be calling an advice hotline, and go see a therapist.)
Sarah fights Emily for the gun and saves her daughter. They run into the parking garage and struggle over an axe, because why not! The hot detective shows up just in time and stops Emily. He takes Sarah to safety and asks her out on a date. THANK GOD!
STRAY Thoughts
Directed by Hailey Duff, one of her best this year.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪 (2 knives)
Lifetime Tropes: Dead parents, podcasting but wrong, divorce, hot cop,
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Definitely one of the better Haylie Duff directed movies. It was intense.