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Real mum was too weepy for the first hour

posted 10 years ago by Little_Tyke
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I almost switched off, because she behaved quite like a crazy person, with the bedroom set up as a shrine to her daughter. I thought, is she ever gonna stop crying? But the final 35 minutes were what got it the three stars on Channel Five this afternoon, I expect. What I found confusing was that the real mum's friend and the faux mum looked too alike. I lost the thread for a while because of that. One final comment, in real life, such a daughter would need extensive counselling over many weeks to come to terms with the revelations. Shocking to note at the start of the credits was the number of children - 2,000 - who go missing every day in the USA.

[–] max_demian 10 years ago

The wording is:

Over 2000 children are reported missing in the US per day. Most abductions occur within a quarter mile from the child's home.

That's a particularly offensive piece of pseudo-statistics. We're clearly meant to think that over 2000 children are abducted every day, when most of them turn up in a few days having run off somewhere or are with a relative due to a misunderstanding.

And who is within "a quarter mile from the child's home"? Why, the parents! Apart from abduction by a non-custodial parent, there are parents who dispose of their children and then pretend they have been abducted.

(And I also had a problem with the resemblance between the two women - as I have a mild form of 'face blindness'.)

[–] greenbudgie 9 years ago

I think it was a very moving performance by Moira Kelly, playing Karen, the real mum. This helped me to be totally absorbed in this movie throughout.

I was a little confused by the similarities between Karen's friend and the fake mum. Some movies are like that. I didn't get quite so confused as I have done with some other lookalikes in other films. But I wish they would make the cast more distinctive, appearance wise, from each other in these movies.

[–] mythcalledlove 7 years ago

I agree that whining I get grief and missing her daughter but she had no control over her emotions and could not function. I can understand her pain but for the sake of the movie they could hv dialed down her crying a bit