The reviews on here are hilarious. First of all, this is NOT meant to be a great drama or romance....it's mind candy .

Yes, the plot of lonely wife, tempted by sexy (and psycho) contractor has been done many times, but obviously people find it entertaining or it wouldn't be such a perennial.

My husband, who watched this with me, renamed the movie "The Shirtless Man Chronicle" because this seems to be said contractor's only qualification: he looks good shirtless. Anyone who's ever hired a contractor KNOWS (1) they don't look like male models and (2) they don't show up to go over plans with you, naked from the waist up. Nor, considering they work with power tools, raw lumber, and nails, do they prance around semi-clothed on the worksite.

So...take this movie as female fantasy (with requisite guilt). And as to the confusion about the child who interrupts the lovemaking at the beginning of the movie, I believe that's supposed to be a flashback to when the contractor was a child. It's made obvious in the story, he had 'issues' from an early age, having been exposed to too many 'stepdaddies'' (his mother was promiscuous); his odd reaction to his pet being killed shows he's already unbalanced.

Laura Halpern is in a happy marriage to her husband Greg, and they have a beautiful seven-year-old boy named Jamie. But Laura makes an error in judgment in falling for the seductive carpenter who is remodeling the family kitchen. While Jesus may have been a carpenter, Elliott Graverston is the mama's boy builder from hell.

In Elliott's past, there was a fateful fire of the family home on Danton Island. Both Elliott's beloved mother Stella and her new husband perished in the flames. Laura is led to Danton Island through a lead on the blog about Elliott that was written by a user named "Purple Wallflower."

Laura discovers from a local café owner that Purple Wallflower is in fact Winnie Hammell, who is almost the spitting image of Laura. She learns that Elliott had nearly busted up the marriage of the Hammells, just as he is attempting to destroy the relationship of Greg and Laura. One casualty in the film is Greg's assistant Hannah Jopkins, who questions Elliott's masculinity and pays the ultimate price.

There was a good set of secondary characters, including Laura's effervescent neighbor Myra and Norma Delizie, the garrulous owner of a local bakery. Norma has a set of photos on her wall that includes one of Stella and her little boy Elliott. It is from Norma that Laura learns the details of the mysterious fire that took the life of Stella and marked forever the little arsonist and mama's boy who burned down the home on Danton Island.