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Creepy doctor is obsessed with his nurse so he kidnaps her and sticks giant needles into her brain to give her amnesia and make her believe they're a happily married loving couple.

He even goes so far as to rent a storage facility where he keeps a whole drug lab to make special pills for her that keeps her memory suppressed. He lies and tells her it's meds for her non existent heart condition.

Of course a car accident and trip to the hospital causes everything to unravel and our heroine begins to learn the truth.

It's a typical Lifetime drama of obsession, but this psycho went to such crazy lengths to obtain his object of affection. I wondered why he went through all that trouble just to get this woman because she wasn't all that special.

This film is over 15 years old so the writing is ok and characters don't do stupid things like in today's films simply to keep the plot going.

I think the older Lifetime films are much better quality than more recent ones. I'll be generous and give this a 6. Worth a watch.

Not My Life is a 2006 thriller about a woman who seems to have a perfect life. She's got a husband who adores her yet she starts to get visions about her past. Is her husband really who he says he is?

I knew from the get go what was going to happen in this film. Spoilers ahead.... That her so called husband wasn't her husband and gave her drugs into thinking she had amnesia and they lost a daughter who is actually alive with the woman's actual husband whom she reunites with in the end of the movie.

If you liked the Netflix movie Secret Obessions with Brenda Song then you'll probably like this film.

***SPOILERS*** Mind numbing movie that's a lot like that 1991 brain twister "Shattered" about not exactly knowing who you are with Tom Berenger and Greta Scacchi. In this case Alison Morgan, Mededith Monroe, has been suffering from memory loss since a very tragic incident happened to her in the not so distance past.

With her attention span or memory never going back to about a year Alison is given these heart condition drugs by her concerned and doctor husband Steve, Ari Cohen. Steve knows the secret to his wife's problems but keeps it from her in order that Alison doesn't suffer another nervous breakdown that after she suffered her first one that almost had her institutionalized over a year ago.

It when Alison has a miner fender-bender that her mind or memory starts to recover and glimpse of her past start to come into focus. Going to see a cardiologist Dr.Jennifer Prasad,to check out her heart condition and the medication she's taking for it Alison discovers that there's nothing at all wrong with her ticker but that there's, in the drugs her husband is giving her, something very wrong with her brain! In that it's being kept from thinking in what happened to her to put Alison in the condition that she now finds herself in now!

***SPOILERS*** Hard to take Lifetime mystery movie that manipulates the audiences' brains like it does it's major character Alison Morgan's true identity. An identity that's being totally obliterated by her "loving" and "cearing" husband Steve who in fact need far more help in his own severe mental problems than she does! It's when Alison realizes that she's in fact not who she is, Alison Morgan,that she hired private detective Michael Woods, Jack Kruegher,to check out both her and Steve's past which ends up leading to his murder. To even things out gender wise the nosy Dr.Prasad also ends up getting it by uncovering the fact that Alison is being chemically brainwashed to keep her from remembering her dark past that her husband Steve is doing everything possible, even contemplating a lobotomy, to keep her from remembering!

Watching this movie you feel as if your being brainwashed into thinking that it's outrageous and totally unbelievable plot makes any sense in the real or even world, the movies, of make believe. But as hard as you try to make some sense out of it the more you begin to realize just how senseless it is.

Mind and memory. These are the two themes of "Not My Life," a good drama that focuses on a case of amnesia.

Alison Morgan lives in a perpetual state of darkness as she seeks to recover her lost memory through the aid of her doctor husband, Steven Morgan. But it turns out that Steve is conducting a bizarre experiment on Alison's mind and memory. The film focuses on the awakening of Alison to the realities of her situation living with a Dr. Frankenstein.

It turns out that Alison Morgan is actually Anna Taylor, wife of Greg and mother of little Becky. Obsessed with Anna, Steve Morgan staged her death in an auto crash, then sought to reprogram her through a diabolical plan of mind control. As a guinea pig, Anna was subjected to experimental procedures with the needle into her brain, as well as medications that would induce the amnesia.

It was unfortunate that two of the most interesting characters in the film met untimely ends at the hands of the maniac Steve Morgan. One was Dr. Jennifer Prasad, who examined Alison and recognized the medical malpractice that was occurring. But before she could report him to the authorities, Steve killed her. Similarly, the wily private investigator Jack Kreuger, who became the first to recognize that Alison Morgan was in fact Anna Taylor, was dispatched by the evil Dr. Morgan.

"Not My Life" was a good study about a stolen life. The topic of memory erasure was an unpleasant one. It was shocking that Steve Morgan would keep a woman in a virtual catatonic state in order feed his megalomaniacal quest to control another human being.

**Review Contains Spoilers** I really liked this movie, one of the better Lifetime thrillers I have seen. The acting was good, the movie kept a good pace, and the story was suspenseful, though the underlying premise was pretty unbelievable. In particular, I thought the acting of the acting of Meredith Monroe and Ari Cohen, the main characters were pretty convincing. I would definitely recommend this movie as a thriller worth watching. That being said, I always have a few pet peeves with Lifetime movies...

• Why do so many of these movies have the stereotypical best friend of the female protagonist- not married or divorced, has no life of their own and is fully engrossed in the female protagonist's life & issues, usually quirky in some way and less attractive than the female protagonist. I guess these quirky characters are supposed to add some color to a movie, but I just find them annoying. Why not just write a character you would find in the real world? - So the dirty husband/doctor faked the deaths of himself and Alison/Annie through a car accident. This means he must have killed two other people- male and female around their same ages and put them into the car and blew it up. Now theoretically, you might not be able to positively ID the bodies if they were blown up, but the article the detective found said they were burned beyond recognition. I'm not forensic expert, but don't they ID bodies using dental records in these cases? - Why in the world did the private detective not call the cops when he and the quirky friend discovered that the evil doctor took Alison/Annie away? Clearly they had ample evidence that he abducted her. Also, he already told his CSI buddy to inform the FBI. The excuse he gives is that he broke into the house- okay, but who knows that other than himself and the friend? Also, he was going to have to call the cops "sometime", once he found the guy. Wouldn't it have been better to do it before he left to find her, rather than confronting a murderous psycho on his own? But then it wouldn't have had that great thrilling Lifetime finish where the female protagonist gets her revenge on her evil oppressor.

Okay, that's all of my peeves- pretty minor actually for a Lifetime movie :)

This movie bears an uncanny resemblance to the plot line of "See Jane Run" written by Joy Fielding in 1992. Link: http://www.amazon.com/See-Jane-Run-Joy-Fielding/dp/0380711524

plot summary (via Amazon.com): Here, Jane finds herself in downtown Boston, her dress covered with blood, nearly $10,000 in her coat pocket, and absolutely no idea of who she is. She seeks help at Boston City Hospital, where she discovers that she is the wife of handsome Michael Whittaker, a renowned surgeon. The doctor seems to be the perfect husband, and as Jane learns the details of their ideal life together she is unable to understand her suspicions of him. However, as Jane's amnesia persists, it becomes clear that her model husband is threatening her sanity in order to conceal a sinister secret.

And the made-for-TV movie in 1995: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114382/

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, so if you liked this 'adaptation' you will probably like the book much more.