The Boy Next Door

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The Boy Next Door is a thriller directed by Rob Cohen (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor). The film stars Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth, and John Corbett

Lopez stars as Claire Peterson, a high-school literature teacher struggling to get back in the dating game after separating from the cheating Garrett (JOHN CORBETT of NBC’s Parenthood, Showtime’s United States of Tara), her husband of 18 years. As their teenage son, Kevin (IAN NELSON of The Hunger Games, The Best of Me), deals with being bullied by his schoolmates, it’s as if Claire’s prayers are answered when a handsome and charismatic 19-year-old named Noah (RYAN GUZMAN of Step Up series, TV’s Pretty Little Liars) befriends Kevin after moving in next door to care for his sick uncle—following the tragic deaths of both his mother and father. Though he becomes friendly with Kevin, Noah’s attraction to Claire at first sight is more than palpable. Noah’s fatal attraction will force Claire to her limits as she protects her world from being torn apart and her family from a psychotic danger.

Barbara Curry, the first-time screenwriter behind the script, wanted to create a strong female lead for her film. “I wanted Claire to be a strong character who is deeply flawed. But Claire’s flaw is not that she succumbs to temptation by sleeping with this young man. Her real flaw is that she can’t forgive her husband for his infidelity. It’s a flaw of pride, really. I thought it would be interesting to have this strong, proud woman make a mistake that’s equal to her husband’s, so she would finally understand how he could have made his mistake and be deserving of forgiveness. That’s the moral of this story. We can’t be so strong that we are unable to forgive.”

The Boy Next Door is rated 14A.