Very well executed

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

As another reviewer notes, when you watch a Lifetime movie you don't expect Shakespeare. For what it is, though, "Widow" satisfies.The gorgeously aged James Brolin is excellent as Hank, a man who has amassed a fortune but is woefully naive when it comes to Linda, the hospice nurse with a chequered past who ministers to his dying wife while flaunting all her curves. Natasha Henstridge is believable as a predator type who uses sex to get what she wants. A scene in which she crassly gets Hank to change out of his horse-farm clothes is priceless. Also turning in good performances are Jewel Staite as Hank's depressed and perceptive daughter and Gabriel Hogan as a morally challenged yet complex farmhand.The story here seems a case study in the notion that bad things can happen to good people, and that justice can be frustratingly elusive.In all, this was both guilty fun and thought-provoking.

Leading lady Natasha Henstridge seems to think acting is how low a cleavage you can wear. Playing every scene with a dress cut down to the deep south. Unfortunately her backside is equally as large as her breasts. Check her out walking in a pair of jeans also cut down from the back and you'll see what I mean. She can't act. I guess the casting call was someone with large breasts.Now the rest of the cast when you get the chance to see them as obviously the director, Peter Svatek, has only Natasha on his mind, do their best. James Brolin as a hungry male for sex. His daughters, Jewel Staite and Melinda Deines, try. As do Gabriel Hogan and Jeff Roop as victims to the lady's desires.This is typical LMN soap opera about women getting away with murder and the male species being stupid enough to let them.Best performance is Michelle Duquet as the dying wife to Brolin. She has some good moments.Natasha Henstridge should stick to Playboy.

Stunning blonde Natasha Henstridge is the young, not-so-grieving widow in the mansion on the hill, telling her story to a TV reporter in Monroeville, Virginia. And among the community's well-heeled horsey-set, she's suspected of involvement in the death of her older husband. That's James Brolin, trusting as a babe-in-arms. Flashback teledrama made in Canada, based on an article that appeared in Vanity Fair magazine. It must be true! Whatever, it's far more romance than mystery, and a very familiar tale. Leggy Species star Henstridge as a gold-digging hospice nurse? It could happen, I guess. And it's good to see Brolin in a sizeable role after his titchy turn in Antwone Fisher, even if he doesn't make it to the end of the picture. The end of the picture? He doesn't even make it to the beginning of the picture. Which is why flashbacks were invented, of course.

I started off being interested somewhat in the movie. It appeared it might be serious drama, dealing with death, grief, and healing, with some realistic human conflict thrown in. Alas, it didn't hold up.I need a movie with somewhat consistent and believable characters. Too many characters in this movie were portrayed as extremely gullible and inconsistent. Look, I know this was not supposed to be Shakespeare, but come on, I need some quality in script and characterization.The acting was alright, the writing not so much. At one point, James Brolin's character is berated for showing up at a picnic under-dressed. He states that ordering him around will not work. His new wife says that if he goes home and changes she will rip his clothes off later. That is a howler. This movie had a few unintentionally funny lines.It was hard to care about Jame's Brolin's character. When he so readily gave his first wife's things to his new wife, even allowing his daughter to be snubbed, I lost most of my sympathy. Who really cares what happens to him. I must confess that I did not finish the movie. If it did a 180 in quality in the last 45 minutes, let me know. It was just unpleasant to watch and so predictable I felt there was no need to finish it.