Highly Overrated But Still Good

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Couple Carrie (Ashley Jones) and Dean Ryans are having problems. Carrie is a high school teacher who takes an interest in orphaned student Jeremy Rander (Erik Knudsen). She doesn't know that it's a setup. Jeremy's uncle Bill (Chris Mulkey) is in debt to some bad people for his failing used car lot. They know that she has a wealthy father. After he kills her father, Bill blackmails Carrie for $500k.It's obvious that Jeremy is helping setting her up and it doesn't even occur to Carrie. It's really stupid. She is too naive. The pictures are all her and Jeremy. Unless somebody is following her 24/7, it's obvious that he's part of the plan. She really should contact the police right away especially since there are no sex pictures. They could set up a payoff and arrest the culprit like David Letterman. The movie has no danger because there is a wide open road for her to drive through.

I was immensely disappointed at this halfhearted effort to produce a thriller/crime story. I was expecting some well developed characters who have more than one dimension and an interesting plot.What I watched was nothing like that. Instead, the characters are like paper cutouts with no depth. The main character is just too good to be real. Always perfectly coiffed, even after getting out of bed. Her husband is a no-good philanderer with a failed business. Her father is caricature from the Andy Griffith Show.The basic plot has some interesting potential, but the film makers just didn't have enough guts to find it.I just don't recommend this to anyone who wants to be entertained with a creative and thought provoking film.

The movie puts far too heavy emphasis on the weak dialogue. Simply put, the people in this movie talk like books, and it really shows. The roles of the actors are unanimously archetypal and lack any and all depth. Probably the weakest thing in the film is Ashley Jones's acting, which is clearly not at the level necessary for a dialogue heavy film-- her portrayal of a teacher is completely unconvincing.The plot was not altogether terrible but poor directing simply made this movie an assembly line of clichés (the plot could have been salvaged with strong acting, good script, and a greater focus on either horror, or relevant pressing issues. Not to mention the plot is neither plausible nor remotely menacing. The cinematography is amateurish and the script was overwritten and juvenile.The part of the film that almost makes it comedic, is the score. At scarcely rare moments when i found myself actually feeling sorry for Jeremy Rander's character, a much too over the top song would start playing. This made the movie an almost unintentional satire and hilarious to make fun of.One thing they did right in the film was the pacing; the thanklessly weak plot managed to progress smoothly.Watch only if u get some kind of enjoyment in bad films.

I understand Army Wives is a significant departure from the standard Lifetime fare. I assume that's why the premiere of its second season scored record-breaking ratings. Most of the women's cable channel productions are meant for stay-at-home wives and mothers, and females who enjoy stories about being victimized. This one, however, reaches new lows: bad acting, worse writing and a bad plot line. I think soap operas are better than this and I don't even watch them. The chilling message in "A Teacher's Crime" is that teachers should not get close to or go above and beyond to help their students or they might wind up being accused of having affairs with them. Instead of being dedicated to their profession, public school teachers who watch this may decide that they should just put in the time until they retire, collect their benefits and retire with big pensions at taxpayers' expense. Ironically, I watched this movie on Father's Day weekend when Lifetime was showing "good dad, bad dad" fare. The emphasis apparently is "bad dad," standard for this male-hating cable channel.