There were tons of extra lying in this psycho thriller.

At 53 seconds into the movie hubby called wife and told the first lie.

At 1:01 he repeated the lie.

Then she lied twice to cover up his 2 lies.

From there on it was a slippery slope of all kinds of lying by just about everyone in the movie.

I briefly thought about counting all the lies. Then I knew I didn't have that much time in my life and decided to just let sleeping dogs uhh -- lie. Sorry, that's a different kind of lie, but I couldn't resist.

Maybe this movie should have been titled, Lethal Lies.

Well to the backstory: The MCs were brother Drew (Adam MacDonald) and sister Nina (Kellie Martin). Both were repeatedly abused and traumatized by their alcoholic father as children. In a final act of retaliation, Drew killed both parents by causing a house fire.

He later was sent to juvenile prison for stabbing a man who roughed up Nina. After his return, two people they both knew vanished including Nina's boyfriend whom Drew did not like.

Nina had to get away - changing her identity, her job, her location to build a whole new life to protect those around her from her extremely disturbed brother.

Now years later, Nina had a family and a good job. But Drew after much searching finally found her and discovered her handsome doctor husband wasn't making Nina happy...

Drew was boyishly handsome with a disarming smile which of course made him appear a most unlikely killer. But big sister Nina had a protective streak of her own and wasn't afraid to go all in to protect the ones she loved.

This 2007 release was 9 years before Hallmark's Haley Dean Mysteries, but even back then, this Kellie Martin character wasn't afraid to show she could push back when pushed.

IMDB's average rating for this movie is 5.1. In my viewing experience, I'm going to bump it up to 6.5.

Two children who are both on the receiving end of unspeakable parental abuse eventually take different paths in life. The boy is unable to overcome his past. The girl fights through the memories to carve out a new life for herself. The difference between the two siblings comes down to a matter of conscience.

The focus of "No Brother of Mine" (a.k.a., "Lethal Obsession") is on the relationship of the siblings Drew and Nina Brampton. While Nina married to a doctor and has two beautiful children, Drew is obsessed with his sister and the memories of their traumatic past. Nina has forged a new identity and has not seen her brother in years. But he finally locates her, and Nina's world may be destroyed by his arrival.

Drew murders two innocent people during the action of the film. But the more repellent character turns out to be Nina's husband, Dr. Stuart St.-Clair. Stu is a philandering doctor, lying to his wife and making promises he cannot keep to his lover, an associate at the hospital named Miriam Jordan. At one pivotal moment in the film, Stu has the opportunity to at least save one life from the clutches of his psychopathic brother-in-law. But the spineless doctor tries to make a break for it, leaving poor Miriam at gun point with Drew.

Much of the action of the film is far-fetched to the virtual point of comedy. It was not believable that the smooth-talking Drew could evade the long arm of the law and use a phony charm to attract and begin romances with both the St.-Clair household maid, Isabelle, and Nina's co-worker, Karen.

But the film is still worth watching for the outstanding performance of the actress playing Nina, who created a multi-dimensional character that defines the essence of a survivor. Nina's father was an abusive drunk, and, as a little girl, she chose to set fire to the family home with him inside. While Drew was impacted by the event to become a killing machine in his fantastic self-image of avenger, Nina lived stoically in horror of the crime she had committed. Yet she possessed one salient quality that Drew could never fathom: Nina had a conscience.