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It was okay at first, but the ending was terrible. Endings are what round a film and this didn't. The writers need to go to lessons. It made the film bad. Talk about coming back from the dead.

It's quite involving as you watch the children of slain parents fend for themselves. Christa B Allen is quite watchable as the oldest kid having to support the family and her two bratty younger siblings. But the explanation at the end is ridiculous. To let their kids go through that is absurd and the flimsy explanation at the end doesn't fill the holes or explain convincingly why they would subject them to such an ordeal. Don't bother.

Deep in the Louisiana bayou, a mystery unfolds around Emily Chasen and her two young siblings, Lexi and Ethan. Emily became the guardian of the youngsters after the brutal slaying of her parents, who were running a mom-and-pop operation as "efficiency experts." They had assembled a file that put their lives in danger, and the trouble has followed the children who have moved from Iowa to Glenoaks Parish in Louisiana. It appeared too good to be true when Emily was offered a job almost point blank and without an interview at the Waypont Research Group. It turns out that it was a shell operation with Heather McClure operating a non-existent business along with her tag-team partners Shane and Ted. It is Heather who is after the precious file assembled by Emily's parents, as it will disclose how Heather has been running a life insurance scam with terminally ill people so that she can claim the proceeds from insurance companies. Things slowly build to a head with a race through the bayou with the Heather in hot pursuit of Emily and the children. Unfortunately, the action scene was broken up at the most inopportune moment with a commercial break! If this race-through-the-bayou scenario sounds far-fetched, it is putting it mildly when compared to the film as a whole. In good scripting, it is said that an ending must be "earned." In the case of "Family of Lies," the sudden reappearance of the parents in the bayou was a jaw-dropping moment that begs the question of why the parents would put their children through hell. Emily's dear father once waxed philosophical with her in asserting that "chance favors a prepared mind." In this slow-paced and highly contrived work of cinema, there was no "prepared mind" at work in the conduct of the parents other than to inflict on their children the traumatic experience of a lifetime.

Critics of this movie have to be brain dead, sorry but its true, this movie grabs you by the throat and doesnt let go until the end, and it has a twist in the tail that you wont see coming. Watch this movie from beginning to end, you wont be disappointed.

A husband and wife team of efficiency experts are murdered and their three children are left to fend for themselves. The oldest , Christa Allen hears of a job offer and packs the other two, Mary Alice Riesner and Peyton Wich off to a new town. After that all kinds of creepy things start happening to the siblings. By that point I was bored. By the end I really didn't care. A movie to fall asleep with.

The Chasen parents are murdered in Iowa. Emily (Christa Allen) the eldest sibling vows to protect the family. They move to Louisiana, because that is where the film company that made this production is located. She gets a job at Waypoint Research and discovers people are after them for some information the parents had. This is a poorly constructed mystery. There are no clues to play along with. The "surprise" ending was extremely inane.Characters were bland a was the sound track. Made for TV.

Very bad acting! This movie is a joke. I wasted my time watching it. The ending is the worst! Good for a Walt Disney fantasy movie.

Bad acting, bad Movie makers, you can Watch a Movie record frome a basic modern mobile camera to beat this. Horribel the borrest Movie i ever Watch if man even can call this a Movie a home recording video is more to a Movie that this is. The only + in this is that this people problie gonna have hard time get to make Another video ever again.