“Deadly Assistant” (** out of four) was a standard-issue melodrama about a successful businesswoman (Jeanette Sousa) who attempts to reconnect with her estranged family but this results in suspicious deaths involving her assistant (Breanne Hill) and others in her family who she is unsure if she can trust or not. Of note mainly for being the directing debut of ’80’s siren Daphne Zuniga (“Spaceballs”)- she does a competent job and makes good use of music but is unable to ovecome the obvious and predictable plotting.