"Dangerous Medicine" is the profile of a caregiver from hell. Daphne Jones appears at the beginning to be a genuine physical therapist truly devoted to helping other people. She describes her work in caring for those who are infirm as a "calling." In fact, it is the calling of a pervert.

Young Tony Fox was a gifted high school runner, whose legs were paralyzed in an auto accident. Tony's girlfriend Jasmine ran a red light while she was texting. Now, Jasmine's role in Tony's life is usurped by Devious Daphne.

Despite the diabolical and imaginative protagonist, the film was slow-paced and suffered from too many implausible moments and situations. One of the clumsiest scenes was when Daphne got the drop on Gary, who hunted her down for revenge after she nearly murdered Gary's brother Lyle. It was also a stretch to believe Daphne's stunt as a cat burglar, sneaking into Jasmine's home to plant a phony text message on her cell phone. It was even more incredulous that Daphne could murder in a busy hospital the kind Dr. Peters, who was about to surgically restore Tony's legs.

Daphne likes her men to be young and vulnerable, keeping them under her watchful eye in wheelchairs. When they misbehave, she takes drastic measures, such as attempting to chop up Lyle with a hatchet or attempting to perform an "appendage removal" on Tony's arm so that he will be unable even to crawl away from her.

It was due to the quick-thinking Jasmine that the true identity of Daphne was revealed as Mrs. Edwards, the erstwhile wife of Kyle. Along with Tony's devoted mom, Ellen, he is rescued from the clutches of Cruella due to the tenacity and courage of the two women in his life who genuinely cared about him.

First off, the description here on imdb is wrong in saying that the psycho physical therapist helps Tony to walk again. She does just the opposite - she does everything possible to prevent him from walking again, such as purposely keeping the message from him and his mom that the surgeon who will enable him to walk again can get him in sooner than expected due to a cancellation. So he lost out on that opportunity because of her sneaky conniving manipulation, and when they called again and told him of a new date in the near future, she killed his surgeon to prevent him from operating on the kid so he would remain in a wheelchair and dependent on her for life. So that needs to be corrected since it's the opposite of the truth about the basic theme of the movie.

Secondly - the first reviewer here said the therapist actress's acting was terrible, but I think it was because the material and dialogue was so horribly written, no one could've made it sound right. She seemed to be a fair actress with badly-written lines.

Third and last - will Lifetime ever make a movie in which people lock their doors? Or where the villain can't always get away with all their nefarious sneaky machinations to manipulate everything to their sole objective, which is always to make the idol of their deranged obsession fall in love with them?

Too implausible that she could so brazenly break into a house in the middle of the night and actually send a text from Tony's girlfriend's phone while she lies there asleep in her bed, all while the girlfriend's father is walking around the house looking for the intruder with a baseball bat. When she first got there, she actually grabbed the doorknob of the front door and turned it, ready to walk right in. Who does that?? It was one of the rare times someone actually locked their door in a Lifetime movie. So then she got the garage door opener out of the unlocked car in the driveway and opened the garage door to get in the house that way. What if someone had been up, in the kitchen getting a drink or going to the bathroom or watching TV, and she just brazenly walks into the house?

Only reason to watch is Meredith Thomas, who does a good job as always (she was great in Killer Advice) even though her role is fairly small here.

2 out of 10 / Grade D-

After many similar Lifetime movies about doctors or nurses going rogue, I decided to give this movie a try. Before viewing I did notice already 2 scorching poor reviews about "worst acting" and a cliché plot. Also Lifetime Network adds the movie to its "Wicked Revenge" series... so is the movie shocking a bit like they say? Well the movie falls exactly cliche category where nurses / doctors go delusional and nuts. I do appreciate sexy frill bits scenes in the movie but the revenge part isnot there where you may expect it and the end is a bit contrived but overally the movie is not worse off than "Stalked by my Doctor" films with Eric Roberts. As far as shocking bit, you'll definitely come across a shock so typical for gruesome horror flicks but overal impression i got is a sexy acresss that I would not mind giving care to me. The movie gives messy feel to some of the scenes which may look like bad acting - but I think it's more about choreography and camera work rather than the actors