The Boy Next Door (2015)
Mystery/Thriller
Claire Peterson is middle-aged woman, who separates from her husband Garret after finding out he has been cheating on her with his secretary. Claire's best friend and her colleague, Vicky Lansing advices her to divorce Garrett, but she doesn't want to give up that easily. When the garage door is jammed, Claire and her teenage son Kevin meet with their neighbor, Bob's nephew Noah Sandborn, who has come to live with him to help him through the bone marrow transplant. Kevin and Noah
head up to the hardware store together and become good friends by time. Later Claire finds out Noah is going to the same school as Kevin and where Claire is a English literature teacher. Kevin leaves with Garrett to a fishing trip and Claire is left alone around the house. After a failed double-date arranged by Vicky for Claire, she heads home and enjoys a fine class of wine, but Noah gives her a call, concerned by failed dinner. Claire heads over to his place, they talk and drink
enough for her feeling wasted. Noah gives her compliments she hasn't been hearing from her husband for a while and though she feels it's wrong, Claire gives into temptation and sleeps with him. The next morning Claire wakes up at Noah's place, mortified and full of regret, Noah tries to offer her a breakfast, but she freaks out and tries to explain what happened between them, was a mistake and it was all her fault. Noah gets suddenl angry, punches a wall and Claire cleans his wound, leaving afterwards. Claire confronts Noah about sending transfer about him joining her class on her computer, but Noah leaves things unsettled. When it becomes clear to Noah that Claire doesn't want any kind of involvement with him, he tries to spend more and more time with Kevin and turns him against Garrett, it succeeds and Kevin picks a fight with his at the dinner table. Claire gets a bouquet of flowers and realizes they're from Noah, after making a deal of a fresh start, Noah realizes Claire wasn't serious about this and gets expelled from school the same day after hurting badly one guy, who was picking on Kevin. At school dance party, Noah confronts Claire with provocative message on a bathroom wall, but she won't give in until the next day when arriving to her classroom in the morning, Claire discovers a thousand
pictures of her and Noah's night together. She tries to destroy all the pictures before her class comes in, but caught by Principal Ward Warren. Luckily she detached all the evidence, but Warren lets her know her behavior has been questionable lately in school. After Garrett and Kevin get into a small crash caused by non-working brake, Claire starts looking into Noah's past. Claire gets a strange voice mail from Vicky and rides to her ranch, outside the city to check the situation. She discovers a dead body of her friend, tries to call the ambulance, but Noah stops her. He takes her to the barn, where she finds Garrett and Kevin being hold by Noah. He thinks he's in control, but when Claire risks everything to save her husband and beloved son, she makes him beliee to trust him and when it's her chance, Claire destroys Noah and saves her family.
Produced by Jason Blum, who produced fantasy-horror Ouija in 2014.
Directed by Rob Cohen, who directed action-crime-thriller The Fast And The Furious in 2001.
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Ian Nelson, John Corbett, Kristin Chenoweth


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