The Lie (Canada, 2018)

A foreign film from Canada based on an even more foreign film from Germany. Started out as one of those movies about bourgeois parents trying to protect their teenager who, in this case, says she impulsively killed her friend by pushing her off a bridge in the dead of winter. Instead of calling 9-1-1 in case her friend is still alive, her father decides to flee the scene.

The parents are divorced. They really should have thought it out ahead of time and decided exactly how far they were willing to go because they go way too far to protect a daughter who's really not that great. She's a bad seed, but not quite in the way you think.

It was like an especially good Lifetime movie. Followed the formula for a low budget made-for-cable TV movie, with one primary location and six secondary locations and about a dozen speaking roles.

Directed by Veena Sud. Based on the movie Wir Monster aka We Monsters (Germany, 2015).

Stars Peter Sarsgaard, Marielle Enos and Joey King (who's a girl.)

Free on Amazon Prime.