What would happen if you took Fatal Attraction, dulled it down, replaced the daughter with a Steven Page (singer of Barenaked Ladies) lookalike, the bunny with a cat, and Glenn Close with a young, wooden stripper?

You’d get something close to the film Playing House!

Written by Tom Vaughan and Kristy Dobkin, and also directed by Vaughan, the premise is as follows: Married couple Jen, a chef, and Mitch, a doctor, ask their best friend Danny to move in with them so they can afford their dream house. Everything is fine for ten minutes until Danny brings home the “stunning temptress” Blair. She wants everything they have and will kill anyone who gets in her way…

My first thoughts as the movie began, with Jen (Sarah Prikryl) and Mitch (Craig Welzbacher) macking on each other after awaking from a good night’s sleep, was I don’t understand why the people in movies never have morning breath. Sadly, this is as complex as my thought process became as we got into the movie. Jen is a cat lover while Mitch has a Claritin addiction and Danny (Matt Lusk) has no luck in the lady department. Jen tells Danny to try online dating and soon enough Jen finds Blair (Mayra Leal) making breakfast one morning, buttcheeks hanging out and all, and has no problem with it. Because people never have a problem waking up to find a half naked stranger cooking breakfast in their kitchen!

Soon, however, we come to find out that Blair’s last boyfriend died mysteriously – and perhaps her good intentions, like naked cooking (and swimming, there is that, too), are not so good after all. She turns a bit nutty, offs Danny, sets her sights on Mitch and the movie is pretty much that.

Now, don’t get me wrong. This film IS entertaining. Yet, its predictability was so blatant that I had a hard time downing it without drifting over to the computer to see if I had missed an email or tweet. It wasn’t so much the acting (which really wasn’t that bad except for poor Mayra Leal) that had me tuning out – it was more the idea, like I stated above, that this film has been done before. Be it a version of Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Swimfan, The Crush – there could have been an extra good twist that wasn’t there and I was left far from captivated by this specific spin on the whole obsession movie.

There are absolutely no extras on the DVD, which made me a bit sad. I felt at least a little something could’ve helped it. However, it does arrive this coming Tuesday if you still would like to check it out!

Also, don’t forget! You can enter to win a date with Ms. Mayra Leal starting June 21st!