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Short summary

A mysterious teen girl moves into a quiet neighborhood across the street from a high school teacher. The teacher and teen girl develop a mutual admiration for each other, which leads to a plot of revenge, murder, betrayal, sexual assault and blackmail.

Females in jeopardy: With about 32 minutes remaining, Kate having entered Taran's home while she was away is surprised by Taran when she returns and hides behind a door. After she comes out from behind the door, she is killed by Taran with a hammer. With about 5 minutes remaining, Sam threatens Taran with her gun. He is killed by the police officers Taran had called.

Body count: 2.

User reviews


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    • Author: Fecage
    Still youngish-looking high school teacher Chris Klein (as Sam Luck) has a nice suburban home. Also the possible co-owner of a diner with his best pal, Mr. Klein is happily married to sweet, understanding and attractive Tasya Teles (as Kate). Klein's luck changes quickly when seductive Merritt Patterson (as Taran Hathaway) moves into a house across the street. The mature-looking teenager begins putting the moves on Klein. She has black-and-white flashbacks to some trauma involving her mother (apparently) and a sexual companion (apparently). Incredibly, Ms. Patterson turns out to be one of Klein's high school students. Naturally, you think Klein won't easily risk his job and beautiful wife to engage with the nutty woman. Think again. Neither does anyone involved with the production do anything to make their "Damaged" assignment remotely believable, or even fun.

    ** Damaged (2014-11-29) Rick Bota ~ Chris Klein, Merritt Patterson, Tasya Teles, Paul DeAngelo
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    • Author: JoJogar
    The movie at first follows the concept of a stable living individual who is married, but has sexual fantasies for a younger woman. It follows the typical Lifetime movie plots, until Chris Klein's character Sam Luck is not so lucky when things in his life begins to fall apart. Now the foundation of the movie makes sense as it points hatred towards Sam Luck and his lust for another woman, but he never actually cheats on his wife. To basically spoil the movie, the younger woman he is attracted to Taran Hathaway played by Merritt Patterson is ruining his life because she wants "revenge", emphasis on the quotation marks, for the suicidal death of her mom because supposedly Chris Klein's character caused to Taran Hathway's mom to commit suicide. This whole plot twist makes no sense and creates no explanation for the actions then committed by Merritt Patterson's character throughout the movie. The ending is the worst part of the whole movie as Sam Luck is shot dead and Merritt Patterson's character gets away with murder and frames Chris Klein's character for basically everything. The whole plot is everywhere in this movie and leaves me stunned with a climax that not only makes me wish I did not see this movie initially, but left me depressed with the idea that justice was not given. PLUS WHAT THE HELL WAS THE PURPOSE OF KILLING THE DOG!!!! WHAT DID THE DOG DO????? IT"S A DOG!!! The movie deserves to be on a list of movies that should not be seen by anyone who likes a true happy ending or even a good ending at that.
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    • Author: Nahelm
    I have endured many a LMN awful movie, but this one hits the bottom. And it's a shame to see Chris Klein in such a loser. Playing a man that has no ability to be a husband or a teacher by falling in the throes of a under aged neighbor out to get him. And she did. As easy as pie. He had no backbone and loses everything and still runs to her to cry. I cannot believe anyone can be so stupid. The wife is as stupid as he is by entering the neighbor's house and peeking into her things and of course get's caught in the act. I mean how stupid can these people be? They deserve each other. There is no sympathy for any of the characters. The writer gave them no substance. No brains. No reality. If you are a Chris Klein fan, as I am, avoid this film. He's too good for this kind of trash. I hated the ending when the little monster got away with it. She goes through most of the movie with this empty headed look on her vacant face. Homely as well. I liked the wife, although working with a bad script. Sorry Chris, not worthy of your time.
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    • Author: iSlate
    There are some lifetime thrillers that are so bad they are good. This is slightly below that category. The dialog lacks subtlety and things could have been better written. But for mindless entertainment this is just okay because the ending isn't what you'd quite expect as things come together. Merritt Patterson plays a teenage girl who moves next door to a high school English teacher played by Chris Klein of American Pie fame and his wife played by Tasya Teles who acts quite well. Merritt Patterson plays the teenage vamp okay. I guess it is deliberate that Chris acts dumb because the character really does some dumb things to get into the mess with the girl next door. With all that suggestive dialog shouldn't he be running the other way? Don't expect too much and it's an alright mindless watch.
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    • Author: godlike
    The way I see it, things like this could potentially happen when someone's stupid enough. No matter what happens in this story, the main character (a teacher) does some quite stupid things, and does not do or say some rather significant common-sense things, which is why the script progresses the way it does. He does many things that most teachers would never do, and that's because they have rules that they remember when they're in the teaching position. (Or so I think) IF this movie is anything, it's mildly interesting for an example of things that most would never think to do or say, but is it worth the time of watching? This story could be a lesson for someone who doesn't know not to be stupid.
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    • Author: Runehammer
    The standard formula for a Lifetime "television for women" movie usually involves at a minimum a Lifetime Heroine™ (LH) and a Lifetime Psycho™ (LP).

    After watching just the first 30 minutes here, I saw a new acronym was needed, that being the Lifetime Loser™ (LL). Chris Klein, who reminds me of a young Christopher Meloni (Elliot Stabler on L&O SVU) plays English teacher Sam Luck. He lives in a lower middle class neighborhood and has a pretty wife named Kate.

    Plot holes abound here (+5 Lifetime points for this), as another reviewer said it is so bad it's kind of good.

    The day after the family across the street moves out, new people are moving in, notably a young hottie that the LL sees from his window. He leaves pretty wife Kate at home and goes over to help the new neighbor Taran move in. He does a number of incredibly dumb things in short order, to include being alone with her in her home while pretty wife Kate was away, then bowling with her, and accepting a $10K Rolex watch from her. He wrongly assumes she is a university student, but it turns out she is a high school student, and in his English class! I guess he didn't bother to look at his class roster. As is often the case, the actress playing teenager Taran was 24 as of the release date, with the actress playing pretty wife Kate being only 6 years older.

    Taran is of course the LP here and well above the Mendoza diagonal on the Hot/Crazy scale. We see via flashbacks when she was a kid her parents had domestic violence issues. As all LPs do, she worms her way into the LL's life, with a lot of help from him via his stupidity. In very little time thanks to the LP his deal with his buddy Decker to open a diner heads south, as does their friendship, and he is out of a job.

    Pretty wife Kate does some snooping on the LP after seeing the same photo of her parents in a magazine ad. The LP is a trusting sort and does not lock her front door. Kate finds some incriminating papers (such as the "teenage" LP being the CEO of a corporation) but the LP returns while pretty wife Kate is still there. The LP picks up a convenient hammer from the kitchen and ganks pretty wife Kate sans the usual epic chick fight (minus 1 Lifetime point for that). Body count: 1. The LP returns the favor and goes into the LL's home and sends him a dummy email from pretty wife Kate's computer. She uses a convenient junkyard with crusher to dispose of pretty wife Kate's car but not her body.

    The LL shows up at the LP's home and shares his bad news. Needless to say they are in bed in under 30 seconds. After more flashbacks, the LP goes full bore psycho and accuses the LL of raping her, telling him to get out. She sets him up via 9-1-1 and before the cops arrive the LL discovers Kate's body is in his trunk. Guess he missed the blood pool in his driveway. The LP reveals her motivation just as the cops arrive. The LL goes right along and is himself ganked at the end, homicide by cop. Body count: 2. No tragic loss, he was literally too stupid to live. Needless to say there was no sunny day ending here. The LP lived to return in another Lifetime movie.

    Real movie score: 2/10 (higher is better). Lifetime movie score: 7/10 (higher is stupider).
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    • Author: Unh
    That was the worse movie I ever!!! Started out good then only took like 15 minutes to start to suck, got so annoyed with it that we fast forwarded to the end just to be even more annoyed and disappointed with how crappy of an ending it had too!!!! I was so excited to watch this movie, I hate this movie, its stupid I have to write at least 10 lines to post my review so I guess I will just keep saying again and again it sucks soooooo bad. was good for 15 minutes max then went down hill very fast, awful plot line, the description of the movie is misleading too, says nothing bout how stupid and screwed up in the head the dumb girl is, they make you think they will have an affair when that doesn't happen,! ONCE AGAIN....VERY VERY Disappointed WITH THIS MOVIE!!!!!
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    • Author: NiceOne
    Chris Klein worse actor ever! I can act better than that! Awful!
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    • Author: Isha
    Besides the obligatory psycho stalker that must be a central figure in 98% of lifetime movies, this movie was also graced with a cast of dull witted people who have zero ability to think on their feet or even a fleeting sense of self preservation. Well, except for the villainess who seemed to get all the cunning, more luck than anyone should have in a lifetime (no pun intended) and nerves of steel. Besides killing their dog and keeping his collar as, I guess, a trophy of the crime - she buys the house across the street from him, buys out the diner from underneath his business partner (we are talking a highschool student) and somehow gets someone to falsify the deed to make it look like the hapless teacher did it, accuses him of molestation, kills his wife and then is all tearful & "thank god you saved me" when the cops shoot him dead. I don't really blame her for the cops killing him because if you aim a gun at a bystander, refuse to drop it and then turn to half point it at the cops - you're gonna get shot. That one was on him. When you watch a stupid evil stalker in a bad movie like this, the least you should get is some small iota of justice at the end. None here. And it wasn't fun or camp, like movies that are ok fine even with an everyone dies & evil wins ending. This one just plain sucked and it's a couple hours of your life wasted.
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    • Author: hulk
    For a Lifetime Movie, this score is really a ten. We all know they are our guilty British Colombian pleasure and not of the highest cinematic quality. Secondly, let me tell you have seen a few dozen lifetime movies with my wife (yes I am a man), I can say without reservation this is the BEST one I have seen. I am not the biggest Chris Klein fan, but he was pretty decent in it. I told my wife what I thought would make the best ending to the movie about an our and a half into it and boy did they read my mind without any spoilers, you should definitely check it out. I guess the Renaissance of TV is truly here. Thank you Netflix (HOC), HBO (GOT), Showtime (HL/RD/HoL), Starz (TM/S*), AMC (TWD/BB/HOW), and BBC (DW/Cu/) for raising the ante on what passes for good TV. As they say, and in this instance applicable while simultaneously veracious (while normally malapropos), A rising tide lifts all boats! (JFK)akin to Reagan "trickle down" fallacy. What an odd juxtaposition JFK and RR, different sides of the same coin I suppose? There is no Republican, there is no Democrat, there is no matter, there is no dark matter, ONLY GRAY MATTER. Think for yourselves people !
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    • Author: DarK-LiGht
    ill be quick and very simple about this flick people are critics these days just hate everything too much.

    now damaged 2015 is not a theatrical or DVD film it is a lifetime networks TV movie the amount of hate this is getting is undeserved.

    the story goes as a young teenage student becomes a neighbor of a teacher they become friends soon and this teacher just falls for her tricks that costs him his marriage,career and everything he worked hard on.

    this is a typical film where a female takes revenge for something done years ago i wont reveal much here but i would say one thing for sure is that guy deserved what he got he was accepting BMW and a Rolex watch from a student just because she was a girl don't mean she is not evil.

    the rest of the flick is usual lame dialog driven ride same old you cheated on me,the affair and all that but films like these where men looses and you have a unpredictable ending is a clear hint at real life situations there so many people out there that relate to these characters for one look at our main hero here he had a brain and common sense but never used it got himself a hot wife still he allowed some slutty girl into his life and got himself killed.

    the acting is horrendous here even the cast is passable except Merrit Patterson will keep you hooked till the end she is cute.

    overall Damaged 2014 is a enjoyable nice film to see on TV it should be liked for what it is unless you are expecting a masterpiece now that is a different matter my rating is 4/10.
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    • Author: Malojurus
    so the last Lifetime movie I saw had Rob Lowe in it as ex cop Mister Peterson. I liked it, I had a bottle of wine while watching it. This one happened to have been on the same day as the super Bowl. Amy Adams was starring on HBO simultaneously alongside Matthew Goode..BY! Bye Bye... this is the best, during the film we get a look at a relationship between co owners of a bar, a Blooper that involves Porn and schooling kids with Futuristic Tablets, IPADS, or whatever. Then, as we see that this guy finally notices his student is flirty, and rich.... he gets to use her car, A BMW...he gets a rolex....he's being uncool as a teacher with no exuse that logically satisfies his BUDDIES inquisitions on this NEW relationship. BUT THEN....that's not all that this movie is...There's suicide, there's murder...as a matter of fact this SONG IM LISTENING to, BLOOD CULTURES by Indian Summer might as well be sung by Chris Klein..because hed probably satisfy whatever is going on in the minds of any woman watching this PROGRAM...again until...the cops come...and the woman..I mean student is put in a predicament to have her life taken so that there is this all involved simultaneous dead at the same time innuendo going on...and you will see...did the cops do the right thing? did the best thing happen for anyone involved in this preview of tragedy? like andy rooney who likes water...I think so..its so heart wrenching...
  • Credited cast:
    Merritt Patterson Merritt Patterson - Taran Hathaway
    Chris Klein Chris Klein - Sam Luck
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Michael Adamthwaite Michael Adamthwaite - Decker
    Dakota Guppy Dakota Guppy - Young Taran
    Roger Haskett Roger Haskett - Teacher
    Marcus Hondro Marcus Hondro - Greasy Man
    Laine MacNeil Laine MacNeil - Macey
    Brent McLaren Brent McLaren - Officer Gardner
    Dylan Playfair Dylan Playfair - Dylan
    Russell Porter Russell Porter - Taran's Dad
    Gabrielle Rose Gabrielle Rose - Principal Hosie
    James Sullivan James Sullivan - Cashier (as James O'Sullivan)
    Darla Taylor Darla Taylor - Taran's Mom
    Tasya Teles Tasya Teles - Kate Luck
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