Hall Pass Nightmare
2022
Thriller
Hall Pass Nightmare
2022
Thriller
4.6/10
187
Plot summary
Carrie and Justin Palmer are the perfect couple to everyone around them. Or so it seems. They recently celebrated ten years of marriage and are talking about starting a family. After a wine filled evening, Carrie's girlfriends press her to share who her "hall pass" would be. Carrie admits that she has had a crush on famed rocker, Dante Jones, since she was in college but would never betray Justin if given the opportunity. After a business trip to Vegas and a chance meeting with Dante himself after his concert, her obsession suddenly becomes his. Carrie does everything in her power to keep her secret away from her friends and more importantly, Justin, but Dante's stalking and relentless infatuation becomes all-consuming and far too dangerous to hide.
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Movie Reviews
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Hall Pass Nightmare rapidly descends into a "logic nightmare"
This movie sets up a well-worn premise. A married housewife/ teacher/ executive has a reckless intimate one-off regretful encounter with a charming guy only to find out he's a raving obsessed stalker.
There are a number of plot holes here that were too distracting for even "Lifetime movie logic".
The fact that she is receiving these relentless disturbing text messages from the stalker and APPARENTLY blocking someone on your cellphone was not invented yet in 2022 when this movie was made.
I don't claim to be a legal snob but I'm pretty sure you can't walk into a police station and lodge a complaint - maybe even show a few ambiguous text messages - and within an hour or so secure a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that the restrainee APPARENTLY "must sign" on the spot.
The fact that Carrie (Lifetime regular Andrea Bowen) SIGNS the TRO despite the fact that we can assume it contains a grossly false narrative, and that is now a legal document that can be used later in any court proceedings.
The fact that she signed the TRO without consulting an attorney.
The fact that a woman would sign a TRO against someone and NOT immediately inform their spouse. Really?
The fact that she doesn't report the presumed stalker leaving the creepy watch gift at her office. And the notion that despite her office being in this massive glass and steel office building - which they make a point to show multiple times - APPARENTLY there is not one security camera that can capture this man from his entire path from the entrance to office and back, therefore violating the TRO.
The fact that within an hour or so that your husband is assaulted in an empty car garage you yourself casually saunter off to your own car in an empty car garage.
The fact that you design an elaborate scheme to trap the stalker (in the middle of nowhere with spotty cell service) that APPARENTLY consists of only "tasering the stalker then running".
The fact that in this scheme during which you are on a nail-biting "stalker vigil" and you inexplicably feel it's "safe" to take a full-on bubble bath in the nude with candles and everything.
The fact once you've fled the house and are free and clear of the would-be killer, instead of calling 911, the middle-aged man in the group feels a better idea is that he confront the much younger stalker by himself while the 2 other women simply sit in a car and whimper.
No surprises here. No twists here. I usually give Lifetime movies some leeway but this woman responded to every situation with the worst judgement ever.