source: The Sweetheart

Moviecut—The Sweetheart

The best scene in "Dating a Sociopath" (a.k.a., "The Sweetheart") took place in a jewelry store where the manager confronts the film's villain Brian McGavin. The jeweler recognizes a returned bracelet as one that he had sold to Brian years ago when Brian was living with an older woman who died under suspicious circumstances. Brian then made a gift of he bracelet to second woman. The jeweler becomes especially concerned when Brian had gifted bracelet to yet third woman, Sam. It was this scene in the jewelry store that first revealed the twisted mind of Brian McGavin. Sam is the mother of young Jane and little Tilly (Till). She had a falling out with her husband Paul after his reckless driving led to a serious leg injury for the older daughter Jane. Paul has now moved into a hotel, and Sam has moved Brian into the family home. The most intriguing character in the film is the quick-thinking Jane, who recognizes right away that Brian is a phony. She eventually catches on as well that Brian has substituted placebos for her painkillers, making her recovery process slow and miserable. The actress playing Jane does a good job moving ambling around on crutches and using a cane, which will figure prominently in the physical action of the film. The filmmakers moved the narrative along at a brisk pace. It was interesting to watch the dissolute father Paul strive to redeem himself after his disgraceful conduct. Jane's bestie Karli added an important tracking device on Brian's car that led to an old hideaway for the grand climax. The bracelet was a useful metaphor for the shallow behavior of Sam, who fell too fast and too hard for a gold digger as a new sweetheart. It was due to the heroics of Jane limping noticeably through the action that put greater focus on greater the genuine family values that triumphed in the end.

Mother of the Year we got here. Bringing a strange man around. Not letting a father see his children. The father's bad choice was not taking the girls when he moved out. The mom was just one bad decision after another. I can't tell if it's meant to be that way but they're trying so hard to make Dad look irresponsible, but all of Mom's terrible decisions are on full display. It was ironic that her bad judgment caused her to need rescuing by him. Doubly ironic that her poor judgment almost got the whole family wiped out. I agree with another reviewer: it did seem like the mom was already dating that guy. Fighting with her husband, a daughter in the hospital, an elementary-aged daughter who she's trying to "keep things normal for," and yet she has time to date. LOL, ok. She was forcing that guy on her daughters, but also pushing their father away from them. Who lets their flavor of the month provide PT for their daughter? Springs it on her, but then yells at their father for bringing her home unannounced? Allowing your new boyfriend who just met your daughter yesterday take her places? Was Mom that desperate? Flimsy motivations for the villain. Unless I wasn't paying attention, it wasn't clear that the family had "money" to begin with. A better movie with similar themes was Her Deadly Groom. The mom was still an idiot, but there was more suspense in that one. Background noise for one watch only. This really isn't going to be one you want to see multiple times. It's just not that good. In re: to my review title? How in the world do those two titles sync with each other? Typically the US title and the Canadian titles at least have a theme. Such as My Father's Other Family aka Deadly DNA. If the image wasn't the same as on my tv, I wouldn't have known this was the same movie.

From a past diet of similar movies, my early conclusions were: "Dad gets murdered" - coz he has, before; "Black friend gets murdered" - coz people of colour die early, right? I was delighted to have my own prejudices demolished, so- I really enjoyed this: stress, strain, fear,, impending horror - but brilliant ending

A very predictable movie with a simple plot.Not any different from many others of the same type.

It was so bad. I didn't even get 10 minutes through and I already knew it was going to be a cheesy movie. The trailer was decent, but gave the whole movie away. I thought the movie would be good based on the trailer, but obviously that was not the case. Should have looked at the reviews before I watched it. Do not recommend!!!!

Pretty idiotic Lifetime type movie except the final knife scene only lasted two minutes. Subplot involving opiate addiction was never resolved.

Ok so straight down to the chase: it was bad because after everything cougar mom did to keep the family broken. Basically an unfit sl-t of a mother, who even let boytoy carry her young daughter to bed! The husband should have filed for divorce and taken the kids with him! He should have let her drown! I seriously despised the irresponsible selfish sl@t Sam! It was only good because of the happy ending, otherwise, it was terrible! Kudos to Jane who was the real adult in all of this! Oh and the dad has a striking resemblance to Colin Firth!

The acting in this movie is so bad it's laughable and the storyline is a lame ass recycled one done 100x previously only with better acting. Total waste of my time, would not recommend unless you wanted to watch your own eyes roll to the back of your head.