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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:23 JST Chris Trottier

   Tonight’s movie is Living with the Enemy starring Sarah Lancaster, Mark Humphrey, and David McIlwraith.

   Here’s the description:

   Allison is quickly swept off her feet by the dashing, loving software billionaire, Phillip. They marry quickly, and her life seems unbelievably perfect. Then, although she doesn’t want to, she begins to suspect that Phillip may have been involved in the death of his previous wife. As Allison follows the trail left by her, things become complicated… and dangerous.

   Thematically, the Fediverse should love this movie since it’s about an evil tech billionaire who, I suspect, will get his comeuppance. Practically, though, this is probably a badly produced TV movie.

   Sarah Lancaster was a series regular on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and was also on Everwood for 20 episodes. The other two actors have basically made their bread an butter off of TV movies for a long, long time.

   I suspect this movie was made in Canada. I’m from Canada, and usually my suspicion is correct.

   iMDB gives this a 5.3 rating while Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t know it exists.

   Well, I’m going in. Wish me luck!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:25 JST Chris Trottier

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     This movie is so old that software developers are still using Netscape Navigator.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:29 JST Chris Trottier

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     The music in this movie sounds like it was taken from a royalty-free database.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:30 JST Chris Trottier

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     Some poor software developer just got flattened from a hit-and-run!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:30 JST Chris Trottier

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     This is the fourth movie in a row where the main protagonist is a blonde woman.

     I’m bored of blondes. Can we get a few redheads and brunettes instead?

     Maybe someone who isn’t white?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:33 JST Chris Trottier

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     Super elaborate sex scene here. It even has candles.

     I’m not lighting any candles for sex. I might burn the house down.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:34 JST Chris Trottier

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     This is the most boring courtship ever. It’s just “I’m billionaire. Let’s go on date.”

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:35 JST Chris Trottier

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     This hotel they’re meeting the billionaire at looks like a Best Western.

     Unless you’re Warren Buffett, there’s no way you’re doing business meetings at Best Westerns.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:36 JST Chris Trottier

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     Hahahaha 🤣

     In this movie, they refer to Bill Gates as Bill G—perhaps for legal reasons.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:37 JST Chris Trottier

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     Come on, now! No average chick meets a billionaire stud while casually jogging in the park!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:40 JST clacke

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     @atomicpoet Makes me think of Henry Cavill, who joked that he doesn't get people who say dating is hard, he just says, hi, I'm Henry Cavill, want to go out, and that usually works. 😃
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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:49 JST Chris Trottier

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     And now we got another elaborate sex scene in a myriad of positions—all very vanilla.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:50 JST Chris Trottier

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     Mark Humphrey just gave Sarah Lancaster a big speech about how her life is going to change since he’s a big shot billionaire.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:51 JST Chris Trottier

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     Oh my God! I had to pause the movie because I’m losing my mind!

     Mark Humphrey (the billionaire) just landed in a helicopter in front of Sarah Lancaster and her boss. He kissed her right in front of her boss, and then proposed right in the spot!

     Take that boss! Sarah Lancaster is no escort!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:52 JST Chris Trottier

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     Can’t a software billionaire string together a better presentation? He can’t even do a PowerPoint slide?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:10:52 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster’s boss just called her an escort for sleeping with the billionaire, played by Mark Humphrey.

     An escort? Escorts get paid for sex! You’re not paying her to have sex!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:34 JST Chris Trottier

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     This is a terrible chase scene. Sarah Lancaster is on foot and she’s somehow able to evade people with cars and night vision goggles. They finally catch up with her and shoot her with a tranquilizer.

     Mark Humphrey asks who authorized the tranquilizer. And as he asks, he’s tranquilized.

     Now they’re tied up in the cabin!

     Turns out our billionaire is innocent! It was his business partner’s scheme to kill the competition! He’ll do anything to build shareholder value!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:35 JST Chris Trottier

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     Oh, this is good! Sarah Lancaster found out Make Humphrey’s company has hired assassins to literally eliminate the competition.

     And now she’s embroiled in it all!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:35 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster sneaks out of the house and away to safety. She’s trying to make a getaway with a horse! Security is on to her!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:36 JST Chris Trottier

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     Uh oh. Sarah Lancaster found the previous wife’s GPS necklace!

     And now when she’s eating breakfast with Mark Humphrey, she chokes. Turns out the breakfast has shellfish and she’s allergic!

     Sister-in-law neglected to tell the chef about her allergy!

     But now Mark Humphrey tells that sister-in-law that she’s no longer welcome in the house.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:37 JST Chris Trottier

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     Mark Humphrey takes Sarah Lancaster to his secluded cabin for alone time. For some reason, Sarah Lancaster thinks this is creepy.

     When Mark Humphrey wants sexy time, Sarah Lancaster coldly rejects him. And now she’s trying to get cell phone coverage in her bedroom.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:37 JST Chris Trottier

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     What if Mark Humphrey is totally innocent and the FBI just hates billionaires and are intent on ruining his life by any means possible?

     Knowing these TV movies, that’s not the case. But what if?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:38 JST Chris Trottier

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     Old boss is now taking Sarah Lancaster to lunch.

     But then discovers that her boss is working for the FBI!

     FBI says she’s in danger and they will protect her if she comes away with them.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:38 JST Chris Trottier

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     Bunch of weirdos picked up Sarah Lancaster, took her towards where the second wife’s body was found, and then intimidate her.

     I don’t know who those bozos are.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:39 JST Chris Trottier

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     Now Sarah Lancaster is busting into Mark Humphrey’s computer network.

     For a software billionaire, he has terrible network security because all these passwords are easy to guess.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:39 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster is furious—FURIOUS!—that their chance meeting in the park was planned, that he decided to pursue her after first seeing her at the conference.

     The nerve of not being spontaneous!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:40 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster visits second wife’s old lawyer. You know, the one that’s dead. He says says the dead wife wanted a divorce and to get the prenuptial agreement voided. She wanted half her husband’s fortune.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:40 JST Chris Trottier

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     Suddenly, Sarah Lancaster gets abducted by people claiming to be FBI. They say they suspect Mark Humphrey killed his wife, and if she doesn’t cooperate with them, they’ll charge her as an accessory to murder.

     Wait. Why would she be charged as an accessory to murder when the second wife was dead before she met Mark Humphrey?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:41 JST Chris Trottier

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     Now Sarah Lancaster is snooping around the mansion trying to find stuff out about her husband.

     She must really not trust him. If there’s no trust, the marriage is doomed. Maybe she should sign that prenuptial agreement.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:42 JST Chris Trottier

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     Did Mark Humphrey kill his previous wife? Now Sarah Lancaster is beginning to wonder.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:42 JST Chris Trottier

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     Mark Humphrey’s business partner, played by David McIlwraith, urges her to sign a prenuptial agreement. She seems very leery. But then she learns she is the third wife, and the first wife is now a lowly sysadmin fixing servers because she didn’t sign a prenuptial agreement.

     Is that such a bad date, though?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:43 JST Chris Trottier

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     Another sex scene! This one with soft rock.

     Billionaires must get women really hot and bothered.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:43 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sister-in-law threw out all of Sarah Lancaster’s clothes, and Sarah Lancaster is furious! She prefers to dress herself, thank you very much!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:44 JST Chris Trottier

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     Hahaha! Now Sarah Lancaster must do retinal scans, voice scans, DNA scans to keep herself “safe”.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:44 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster is upset because Mark Humphrey put a GPS tracking device disguised as a necklace.

     She complains because it’s an invasion of privacy.

     If only she knew that we’d all be tracked with the GPS in our smartphones.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:45 JST Chris Trottier

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     Mark Humphrey takes Sarah Lancaster to his residence. It looks like someone’s ranch. Lots of horses there.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:45 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster’s sister-in-law has memorized everything about her life under the guise that they “must take precautions”.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:45 JST Chris Trottier

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     Sarah Lancaster just learned she’ll be sleeping in separate bedrooms. Well, that sure puts a damper on their sex life!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:51 JST Chris Trottier

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     What? Sarah Lancaster rescues Mark Humphrey by getting out of the ropes, then hitting an assassin with a shovel—leaving the cabin before it explodes.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:51 JST Chris Trottier

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     Police come, arrest the business partner, but before they put him in handcuffs, he puts a gun to Mark Humphrey’s head.

     But then Sarah Lancaster reminds him of all the shareholders and how he’ll disappoint them by killing Mark Humphrey.

     So he apologizes and shoots himself.

     This. Bloody. Movie.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:52 JST Chris Trottier

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     Looks like Sarah Lancaster and Mark Humphrey is going to get killed by the company stooges! They’re dousing the cabin with kerosene and plan on burning it down!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:55 JST Chris Trottier

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     Mark Humphrey and Sarah Lancaster canoodle by the ranch. He asks her where she wants to go.

     She says “Anywhere.”

     The moral of the story is that you should trust software billionaires.

     Finally, the movie ends.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:01:58 JST clacke

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     @atomicpoet Was the previous wife a threat to shareholder value?
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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 18:02:29 JST Chris Trottier

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     Living with the Enemy isn’t a great movie. I knew it going in. But this is an exercise in wish fulfillment for a certain breed of hetero women, and I’m just here to observe its shenanigans.

     This isn’t even the wildest TV movie I’ve seen this week. It’s nowhere near as over-the-top as The Surrogate. Nevertheless, Living with the Enemy hits close to home for me because I worked in the tech industry, had a certain amount of success – if success is judged by extracting money out of the whole thing. I’m nowhere close to being a billionaire but I still very much approach this from a certain perspective.

     Let me tell you, this movie makes me love my wife that much more. She dated me when I was broke and living on minimum wage. And despite getting laid off multiple times in different jobs, she’s stuck with me because some things are more important than money. This is how I know I’ve got a good thing going.

     Now it’s clear that the protagonist in this film is not drawn to the billionaire because of his money. But let’s be honest. Would we even have a movie here if Mark Humphrey worked at McDonalds?

     This movie sure puts the billionaire on a pedestal. Despite being CEO of this company, it’s not his fault for all the terrible things they do! No, it’s his underlings!

     The “good” ending here is that Sarah Lancaster gets to enjoy her sexy hunk as well as his money too. Because while money may not buy happiness, it sure accentuates it, right?

     Look, I’m not trying to be a killjoy here. Fantasy is fantasy. I dream of playing video games while relaxing in a hot spring. Others dream of sex with a billionaire.

     Nevertheless, I’d rather be poor and in love than a billionaire wondering if women are in love with my money instead of me.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 00:58:44 JST clacke

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     • Ruth Mottram

     @Ruth_Mottram Full thread: atomicpoet.org/objects/9ba9b3f…

     @atomicpoet

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     @atomicpoet What happened? 😱