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Stupidest Lifetime movie EVER!!!!

posted 15 years ago by rochelle-rochelle
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They aired this again last night and I have to say, it is so cheesy and lame. It was poorly written and just thrown together. That one woman that kept crying everytime she saw the baby was a little out there. Ruby smashing the bird houses was stupid. The mother telling Ruth not to have sex ever again as long as the baby is alive was implausible. It's like give me a break. Ruth doesn't even TRY to make it on her own. She wants everything handed to her. Like in the end, she gets the money from the house and gets to live with her rich aunt. So what was the point of the movie?

It's movies like this that give Lifetime Movies a bad name.

If there's an empty space, just fill it with a line. . even if it's from another show.

[–] katesgram2000 14 years ago

Ruth didn't want everything handed to her-she had been raised by an emotionally abusive mother whose treatment of her had caused her to not be able to take care of herself.
Ruby smashed the birdhouses because nothing he could do was ever going to be good enough for Maylene.
It is all about an abusive domineering woman who treated her daughter like crap.
It is a good book and a good movie.

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[–] Juliu67040-2 14 years ago

This movie actually first aired on CBS back in 2004.

JULIUS MAY, PHILADELPHIA PA

[–] allen_girls_3 14 years ago

I think you totally misunderstood the movie. 1) The woman that "kept" crying when she saw the baby - maybe I missed some, but I only saw her cry once, when she was telling Maylene that her daughter had moved and taken the baby with her. If she seems a little out there, it's probably got to do with her drinking. Almost every time I saw her, she was drinking. 2) Ruby smashing the bird houses - it was among the first indicators that he had a problem w/ rage. 3) Did the mom really tell her not to have sex again? I only saw when the mom (the grandma) came home from work to find the baby in the living room crying, while Ruth and Ruby were upstairs having sex. Baby had been asleep when they went upstairs. Grandma's response was that babies wake up - I don't think she was telling her daughter never to have sex again, she was telling her that she was neglecting the child by leaving him alone downstairs. 4) I don't think Ruth was ever taught how to take care of herself, or to even have self esteem. Maylene most definitely loved boys/men more than she did her daughter. The way she talked to her son and treated him; the way she was with her grandson; the way she talked about Willard, her first husband - she truly loved them more than her daughter. She was oppressed and was doing the same thing to her daughter. 5) At the end of the movie, I don't think she moved in with her rich aunt. I think she was off to make a life of her own for herself and her son.