Nightmare of a Boyfriend

## Chronology

**Nightmare of a Boyfriend** is a made-to-television thriller written, directed and produced by Johnny Maddox that premiered on Tonight Life Movies Channel on August 30, 2022. The film starring Bailee Madison and Aramis Knight.

## Plot

In 1997, a heartbroken Jennifer was abused by her savaged ex-boyfriend and moved with her parents to Ottawa to fresh out the start, but Jonah is still stalking and terrorizing her. She thought he was her boyfriend from the start! Was a dream or not?

## Synopsis

The television film begins to set in 1990, where an 11-year-old girl named Jennifer "Jen" Harris meets a boy named Jonathan "Jonah" Flint and became fast friends. One day during the visit, Jonah stole Jen's doll and the two begin to quarrel until her doll is torn. Jonah's parents, Heather and Gray Flint apologized for their son's behavior and took him home to discipline him, never saw her until they grew up.

Six years later, in 1997, Jen, now 18 years old, wants to celebrate her birthday with her best friends. Her parents, Maggie and Nathan Harris suggested that her birthday theme will be Michael Jackson. As her friends came for sharing her joy, an 18-year-old Jonah comes to pay a visit and apologized for his actions, and Jen started to fall in love and began to experience their new-found love. Jen tells him that her father was an employee and business owner who works for the electric company and gets enough money to buy some new clothes as a gift for success. Jonah tells her that next week is his birthday and he asked her to get a special gift for him. Her father, Nathan, photographed them so she could keep some of them as a keepsake. Afterward, Jen made beautiful frames for her and Jonah as a souvenir for his birthday.

A week later, Jen and her friends go to the Flint house for Jonah's birthday. During the party, Jen gives Jonah a present, showing some frames of their relationship together from childhood to adulthood. But upon recognizing his childhood, Jonah remembers six years ago when he steals Jen's doll and ruined her. Feeling fooled, Jonah yelled at her that he cannot be her love interest ever again before he breaks the frames apart. Angered by his hateful behavior, Jen storms out crying and her friends leave the house in anger at him for hurting her feelings.

The next day, Jen's father has good news that he earned more money and a big budget after the company sold more supplies for the charity. At Springhall High School, during a graduation ceremony, Jen won the best valedictorian award for being the best student. Then, Jonah comes just to congratulate her. But instead of kissing her, Jonah steals the award from her and destroyed it. After he was sent to the principal office for detention, Jen safely comes back home with a repaired award. Although his personality has changed and becomes jealous and aggressive towards her, Jonah is kind-hearted and loves her despite the quarrel between them.

Back home after he was expelled from school, Jonah's father, Gray, came home furious at his son for acting unacceptably against Jen and for expelling him from school. After he locked his room, Jonah heard from his mother that his father lost his popularity to Jen's father. Without his parent's knowledge, Jonah snuck out of his house and ran faster to Jen's house. Jonah grabbed the baseball bat, screaming at Jen's face furiously for ruining his and his father's life before he started to break and destroy the furniture in front of the frightening Jen. Luckily, her father stopped Jonah and the police arrested him thanks to Jen's friends. Jonah's parents apologized for their son's aggressive attitude and couldn't treat him for a mental breakdown. Nathan scolded his daughter for choosing the bad person and tells her to think about what she have done. Crying in loss, Jen ended her relationship with Jonah by unfollowing and banning him on social media and deleting the pictures of him, declaring his betrayal.

A year later, Nathan has promoted to CEO of the Canadian companies in Ottawa. Jen can't wait to see her older brother Carter, who was at the university campus for a year and is now a biology student. The Harris family moved to Ottawa, Canada, to live a new life and have some new neighbors. Jen finally let go of the past behind and wants to fresh out the start by making new friends, enrolling at Carleton University, and finding new love. Fearing that Jonah is still haunting her, Jen went to the salon to change her look. She cuts her hair to short and dyes it blond. With Carter's help, Jen undergoes plastic surgery to change her shape into the beautiful girl that goes by her name: Tiffany Harris.

Later, despite her parent's warning to stay away from Jonah, Jen (now Tiffany) goes to Carleton University with Carter to meet her new friends. Sally Wu and Kristen Osborne befriended her and talked about their ordinary lives. Afterward, Jen meets a handsome man named Doug Reed, who quickly became her crush at a first sight. Doug said he won the American football tournament award and that he can have Jen as his girlfriend. On their first date in the café, Jen explains about her past, a love-hate relationship with Jonah, an abused boyfriend who betrayed her since their childhood day, and how she can forget about why he became more aggressive and hates her because her father is a wealthy person. At his house, Doug confessed his feelings to her and promised her that he never tells anyone about Jonah before he gives Jen the first kiss. After she kissed Doug passionately, Jen said she was now happy to know that she can overcome the dark past.

The next day, Jen is feeling better to have Doug as her crush. Meanwhile, Carter and Doug leave the field after football training. Suddenly, someone dragged Doug and, under a death threat, demanded a name for him. In the classroom, Jen notices the familiar person is looking for a familiar girl. At the cafeteria, Jen and her friends have the meals, then the guy saw the different girls and finally found Jen in her different personality. He kicked Jen's meal and removed her glasses, it was Jonah! Jen gasped in fear and asked why he's been for a year. Jonah grabbed Jen in anger and screamed that he has been tired for a year looking for her for revenge. He said that he saw her dating Doug and is so jealous of him. He knew that Jen's family is very wealthier than his family and they were on the edge of the poor. Jen yelled at him because she never sees Jonah for the rest of her life. Angered, Jonah slapped Jen and pushed her violently to everyone's horror, wanting her dead. But the male students caught him and drag him away to the principal. Jen runs away before she saw Doug crying, and said he told Jonah about her name fearing that he will kill him. Devastated, Jen told him that their relationship is over, then she pushed Doug away and runs away to the classroom, crying hysterically.

A week later following Jonah's suspension, Jen heads to the university campus, but she saw the blood coming from the bush. Jen walks there to find Sally's dead body and screams. The cop tells the dean that the killer is hiding nowhere within the university and the students feared for their lives. Jen, terrifying and grieving over her friend's death, snuck out to make sure Jonah won't follow her. But she found Doug's body, but the masked killer covers her mouth from screaming and dragged her back to the university.

Jen wakes up in the storage, tied up. Jonah shows up with his slasher smile and calls her dad on his phone. He demands the family a ransom in exchange for Jen's life. Jonah revealed his motives that he killed her friends who stand in the way of her. Since his father lost his popularity to Jen's father, Jonah will teach her a lesson. Before he can assault her, someone cuts the rope and Jen gains an uppercut by slapping Jonah violently. Carter comes just in time and drags her away from Jonah. Jonah chases them around the campus before the cops arrived and shot him in the leg. Jen tells the cops that Jonah was responsible for his crime and Jonah yells at her to shut up. After arrest, the Harris family reunited with Jen and the principal announced the mourning over Kristen and Doug's death.

At court, the judge sentences Jonah to a lifetime without parole for gruesome crime in university, much to his parents' sadness. At the funeral, Gray Flint said that his son ran away from United States and headed to Ottawa to get revenge on Jen's family. Heather said that she and her husband were planning to move to nowhere so they can never forget about the neighborhood anymore. Jen apologized to her family that she should forgive her and stop thinking about Jonah's love-hate relationship forever, much to her family's relief. Back home after the funeral of her beloved ones, Jen and her family watch the breaking news and, to her shock, it's said that Jonah committed suicide in his cell, said his cellmate. Finally, Jen realizes that an aggressive relationship will bring bad karma to Jonah for good, so she can study for freedom.

After Jonah's death, the Flints tearfully moved away to nowhere unknown. Jen continued her studies in order to recovering from trauma until she finally graduated from university and college. Along with Carter, Jen got a job at her father's business company following their father's retirement. Jen was working at the company. When she goes to the restroom to fix her hair, she hallucinates Jonah's ghost, but she doesn't see him anywhere.

At her wedding, Jen is happy to have a new husband. But something pushed her violently, Jen turns around and, to her horror, she saw Jonah's ghost! The ghost smiled at her devilishly, said he fancy to see her at her wedding and wants her to be with him....in HELL! Jen became more frightened at the sight of Jonah's nightmarish face, her heart beating faster, and her body covered in sweat. An intense emotion strikes her with sheer terror until she passes out in panic attack. At the hospital, the doctor tells the parents that Jen has passed away from heart attack due to panic disorder, much to the parents' grief. After funeral, Jen's soul left for heaven. In heaven, Jen's soul walks toward the gates to the afterlife paradise. But Jonah's ghost grabs her hand, and Jen looked at him with his creepy-looking smile, saying "Finally, we are alone...together...in eternal hell!" Jen lets out a blood-curdling scream like she is giving birth in an utter chilling-spine terror as she burnt into hell along with Jonah before the screen goes white. As Jen's scream bloody murder echoed nowhere.... someone calls her name.

An adult Jen jolts up from the bed, gasping in fear, but her husband tells her that they were in Los Angeles for long years. Jen remembers the years she lived in nervous moments, and it seems she has a bad dream about Jonah's ghost. Her husband told her to forget about him, he's finally dead. Then Jen wakes up and goes to work as she watches her kids going to school. She and her husband kissed together as the sun rose in the sky, overcoming her traumatic past for good.

## Cast

* Bailee Madison as Jennifer "Jen" Harris, a protagonist and a teenager who thought that Jonah is her crush until she ran away from his aggressive behavior.
	+ Abby Ryder Fortson as Young Jen (11)
	+ Katharine Heigl as Adult Jen (42)
* Aramis Knight as Jonathan "Jonah" Flint, Jen's aggressive and violent ex-boyfriend who always stalking on and attempt to make her dead.
	+ Jeremy Maguire as Young Jonah (12)
* Katharine Heigl as Maggie Harris, Jen's overprotective mother. Heigl also portrayed an adult Jen 25 years later after having a bad dream.
* Mark Wahlberg as Nathan Harris, Jen's money-saving father.
* Tom Holland as Carter Harries, Jen's older brother
* Ben Affleck as Gray Flint, Jonah's father
* Winona Ryder as Heather Flint, Jonah's mother
* Rosalie Chiang as Sally Wu, one of Jen's friends
* Victoria Pedretti as Kristen Osborne, one of Jen's friends
* Chandler Riggs as Doug Reed, Jen's new love interest
* Tom Wlaschiha as Jen's unnamed husband
* Maddie Evans as Jen's teenage daughter
* Jude Riordan as Jen's younger son