I was interested in this movie because back in the '80s, my kid sister ran into the same situation, although the age gap and period of stalking were smaller.
Bracing myself for another "men/police are thick as planks" theme seen so often in these movies, I was surprised at how well they portrayed the situations, being hampered, mostly, by the legal system.
As with this family, we quickly found out how useless it was to argue with the stalker and how little the police could do with a guy who wouldn't take "NO!" for an answer.
Unlike this family, ours, after giving the judicial system a few chances, took a different approach. Along with two of my Navy buddies, we finally cornered the creep and gave him three options: 1) Be introduced to time travel (knocked into next week) 2) Be given a new nickname, "Louie the Gimp" (baseball bat meet kneecap) 3) Stop stalking my sister.
Again, as with this family, we waited for the other shoe to drop after "the counseling", but she wasn't bothered nor did we ever see or hear of him again. She married one of my buddies, relocated and never had another problem.
All the actors did a first rate job, with Tom Kurlander as the psychopath who escalated his attentions and psychologically, and then physically terrorized this family for three years. Acting like a Momma Grizzly, Shanna Reed goes to the legislators and after some frustrating times, FINALLY gets a long-overdo stalking law enacted. Why the politicians shuffled their feet on this law for so long is beyond me.
Bracing myself for another "men/police are thick as planks" theme seen so often in these movies, I was surprised at how well they portrayed the situations, being hampered, mostly, by the legal system.
As with this family, we quickly found out how useless it was to argue with the stalker and how little the police could do with a guy who wouldn't take "NO!" for an answer.
Unlike this family, ours, after giving the judicial system a few chances, took a different approach. Along with two of my Navy buddies, we finally cornered the creep and gave him three options: 1) Be introduced to time travel (knocked into next week) 2) Be given a new nickname, "Louie the Gimp" (baseball bat meet kneecap) 3) Stop stalking my sister.
Again, as with this family, we waited for the other shoe to drop after "the counseling", but she wasn't bothered nor did we ever see or hear of him again. She married one of my buddies, relocated and never had another problem.
All the actors did a first rate job, with Tom Kurlander as the psychopath who escalated his attentions and psychologically, and then physically terrorized this family for three years. Acting like a Momma Grizzly, Shanna Reed goes to the legislators and after some frustrating times, FINALLY gets a long-overdo stalking law enacted. Why the politicians shuffled their feet on this law for so long is beyond me.