I’m always amazed when a Tubi movie ends up feeling like a giallo, at least in plot. Famous writer William Law (Charles Malik Whitfield) accidentally kills his wife Jennifer (Veronika Bozeman) when they’re fighting over him leaving her for Kaitlyn (LaRita Shelby). He thinks she’s dead, so he does what bad giallo husbands do. He throws her off a boat and goes on with his life, working with his friend Kenny — they’re both drunk before his bar even opens figuring this out — and become even richer by writing the story of what just happened as his latest novel.
But what if Jennifer wasn’t dead?
Chris Stokes keeps making Tubi movies and I keep watching them. This does flirt with Italian psychosexual horror, as the cops are uniformly dumb and there is some fashion. But really, it’s just a dumb man thinking he’s smarter than the woman who helped make him. I kind of loved the book publisher pretty much telling William that being married made him a bad writer and that he needed to do something about it.
I’m also amazed that this has a big enough budget to have cover songs of Billy Paul’s “Me and Mrs. Jones” and Kanye West’s “Monster.”
As with all Tubi originals, this has somewhat of an open ending, so I can only imagine that we will soon get Still Here 2: I’m Still Here, Y’all, to be followed by Yo, Still Here: Still Here 3. If Chris Stokes would like, I’ll write both of these movies for him.
The only downside I can say with this movie is that the flashbacks get really confusing to the point that it’s hard to tell where we are in the story. The time and date help, but it’s pretty hard to understand at a few points. Also: who reads his own book at the bar to pick up women? The heroine of this should have known what she was getting into.
You can watch this on Tubi.
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Just OK in my opinion. Why didn’t Mr. Law record the confession since he had the cell phone on the bed??
Exactly the movie was mad confusing and jumped all over the place
Still watching trying to find out if Jenny is dead or Kenny is in on it with Jenny. Definitely strange to read your own hit book in a bar. But come on having Kim basically move in is stupid.
1 year later? Detectives don’t remember Kim?
When Jenny left Williams house in the end, was it her Dad waiting on the car for her or his attorney???
When Jenny left Williams house in the end, was it her Dad waiting on the car for her or his attorney???
It seems it was plotted before she walked into that bar. She preys on single men with money with the help of her daddy if that’s even her daddy. Now they are going to Mexico to do it again. This is just my input on the movie.