Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 05/02/2006
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 140 min
Flags: Adult Situations, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Lance Entertainment

Thanks to the wonders of GHB, a young London woman loses all memory of her own rape and her best friend's murder in this two-part British television thriller. Plain-Jane Ros (Eve Best) lives with her party-girl mate, Jo (Stacey Roca). When Jo turns up dead and Ros is found drugged and raped, suspicion naturally falls on Jo's married lover, smug businessman Gerry Henson (Paul McGann). But when Gerry's accommodating wife (Amanda Mealing) provides him with an alibi, police inspector Will Tomlinson (Andrew Lincoln) is outraged -- especially given the feelings he's begun to develop for Ros. Unwilling to let the man she knows to be guilty walk free, Ros pretends to recover her memory and helps send Gerry to prison. Unfortunately, though, an anonymous campaign of harassment soon convinces Ros and Will that not only does somebody know about their deception, but they've helped convict the wrong man. Originally broadcast November 15-16, 2004, on Britain's ITV network, Lie With Me made its stateside bow June 5-6, 2006, on BBC America. Director Susanna White, who previously teamed with Lincoln for the dramedy Teachers, would go on to direct the BBC miniseries Bleak House and Jane Eyre.

~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Although his bloke-next-door looks and frequently bare backside have made him a genial sex symbol in his native Britain, Andrew Lincoln has rarely appeared in anything as gritty and sexually frank as this moody thriller. Part police procedural, part twisted relationship drama, Lie With Me flirts with noir archetypes even as it serves up a dingy, workaday modern London where lies and evasions usually come from the best intentions. A world-weary spiritual sibling of Helen Mirren's indelible Prime Suspect character, Lincoln's police detective gets involved with Eve Best's messy, passive-aggressive murder witness for questionable motives that the screenplay wisely implies rather than spells out. The power dynamics of the bedroom suffuse the entire script, while director Susanna White keeps the crime-and-punishment elements zipping along. If Lie With Me ultimately proves more satisfying for its subtext than for its actual mystery, well, that doesn't make it any less compelling.

~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Andrew Lincoln|Eve Best|Paul McGann|Stacey Roca