This film is about a middle-aged man living a mundane life until a couple move into the house next door.

Let me start this by saying that this isn't awful but it's not great either. Our main character is, in my opinion, a strange duck. He comes off as awkward and sorta creepy but that may have been intentional for the emphasis about how stagnant his life is. He's a bit pervy too. He's constantly eavesdropping, gawking at and inserting himself into positions that provide an opportunity to interact with his female neighbor. He also wants to be heroic but when he has the chance he fails to speak his mind.

I'm probably not gonna watch this again. The movie had a slow pace and it was less than thrilling. I didn't care for the way it ended. The acting, camera work and storyline were decent but it is a low budget movie. If you want to kill some time, check it out. If you are looking for dark thrills, you should look elsewhere.

Acting was ok.

For some reason Fichtner looked like he was playing someone with autism or Dustin Hoffman in "The Lettuce" lol

Produced by William Fichtner as well - poor sod what a waste of money..all of the 50 cents and a bag of monkey nuts it must have cost!

Gosh this was a boring film and the denouement was not actually very interesting either! The accompanying funeral dirge of the awful sound of a Cello was most discordant and depressing as was the movie!

THIS IS NOT A THRILLER IN ANY WAY IT IS A DRAMA!!!

I guess the moral of the tale is just to keep yourself to yourself and avoid your neighbours - probably very good advice these days but could have been done in a 15 minute short!

Best thing about the movie is the music at the end credits!

Mike is a good guy. He is a passive, nondescript, laid-back writer of technical manuals, working out of his home. He is a family man, a gardener, and a good cook. But his voyeuristic impulses lead him to become enmeshed in a drama of spousal abuse next door. Is Mike being a good neighbor? Or is he driven by his baser male instincts in the intervention? This modest domestic tragedy might best be called "The Tragedy on Meadowpark Drive."

It is clear that the filmmakers were writing a morality play with characters representing individual human traits.

Mike's wife Lisa is the one-dimensional version of the shrew, rarely showing affection for her husband and clearly calling all the shots in the relationship. Rarely will Mike discuss his wants, needs, and dreams, as Lisa is the controlling figure and shows no concern for her soft male husband. When Mike recalls "Santa Barbara," he was undoubtedly thinking of an exciting time in their relationship that was filled with romance. But for Lisa, Santa Barbara is a forgotten moment in the past that she only associates with sex. Could anyone possibly be more crass and cruel than Lisa for summarily ordering Mike out of the house after he intervened on behalf of the woman next door?

Scott, the new neighbor is a loud-mouthed car salesman and wife-beater. His shallowness and violent temper are his primary traits. One of Scott's goals is to produce babies with Jenna and have a big family. He is obviously unaware of the damage to the planet that he is leaving in his wake in siring a brood of "little Scotts."

Jenna is the flirtatious, flaky, and vulnerable wife of Scott, who is unable to bring herself to get out of an abusive relationship. But that doesn't stop her from shamelessly flirting with Mike, leaning on him when she is depressed, and leading him on to the degree that he eventually crosses the line of propriety.

Of course, the Everyman character of the film is Mike. In Jenna, Mike deludes himself into seeing her as the answer to all that is missing in his stultifying existence. He may be egged on by his callous friend Brian. But the fatal decisions are made by Mike himself.

Mike's major flaw is that he violates that the good neighbor policy by walking into the home of Brian and Jenna in response to her scream. Lisa had warned him, "Call the police!" in the future. But that advice never registers with a poor schlub who never seems grounded enough in reality to behave like an adult. When he finally does take a stand, the result is the tragedy on Meadowpark Drive.