In 2014’s Redeemed, Ted McGinley plays Paul Tyson.

Paul is married to Beth (Teri Copley) and is a respected businessman who is in charge of a cybersecurity firm.  His latest project is Jericho which, if successful, could revolutionize the way that information is protected online.  A Brazilian firm is interested in buying Paul’s company, which could make Paul a very wealthy man.

However, Paul has some secrets.  Work on Jericho has not gone as smoothly as one might hope and Paul suspects that it might be due to corporate espionage.  Paul is several thousand dollars in debt and the bank has been sending him threatening letters.  When Paul’s friend David (David A.R. White, who also directed) splits with his wife, Paul starts to wonder whether any marriage can survive the modern age.  How do you keep a marriage strong in an increasingly complicated world?  Paul and Beth are supposed to be renewing the vows in the near-future but Paul is preoccupied with both his job and what appears to be a massive mid-life crisis.

Temptation arrives in the form of Julia (Ana Ayora), a beautiful woman who has been sent from Brazil to check out the company.  Paul finds himself attracted to Julia and they bond over many a night of corporate intrigue.  Paul finds himself growing distant from Beth.  Is Paul going to cheat and destroy his marriage?

(Actually, David explains that Paul is already cheating just by spending time with a woman other than this wife.  David also explains that he’s not the one who cheated in his marriage.  Instead, his wife met some guy in an Internet chatroom and she’s been talking to him nonstop.  They haven’t even met but it’s enough for David to move out of his house and into a hotel.  So, remember — if you’re married and you have any close friends of the opposite sex, you’re just a cheatin’ whore.  Sorry, I didn’t make the rules.)

Will Paul remain faithful to Beth?  And will he ever discover who is trying to sabotage Jericho?

On the positive side, Redeemed features Ted McGinley in a dramatic lead role and McGinley does a pretty good job with it.  There are a few times when Paul is simply too naive to be believable but that’s due to the script and not due to McGinley’s performance.  McGinley does the best he can with the material that he’s been given to work with.  I will also point out that the stock footage of Brazil was lovely.  Finally, David A.R. White is a pleasant-enough actor and his direction here gives the entire film a comfortable Lifetime sort of fell.

On the negative side …. ugh, that plot.  The corporate espionage stuff was hokey and Paul’s indecision about whether or not to commit adultery made his character seem more than a little flakey.  Paul’s married to a very tolerant and understanding woman and he has a beautiful family.  The fact that Paul was so easily tempted to throw all that away makes it difficult to have much sympathy for his character and it also makes his eventual “redemption” a bit difficult to buy.  I think most genuinely good husbands would be able to decide not to cheat on their wives without having to fly off to Brazil to think about it.  In the end, the film is very forgiving of Paul but it doesn’t convince the audience to feel the same way.

Redeemed is a film that celebrates marriage and leaves one appreciating divorce.