It's not bad for a Lifetime movie, and overall it's better than most movies that appear on the LMN that have a small budget. A nice original plot line that hasn't been rehashed and good use of what they had to work with. The only major defect was the casting of the Cathy Coulter. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood did an adequate job of portraying the character. It's just that she looked like the son's big sister and not his mother.
Yeah I agree! It was good. I wasn't expecting the twist half way through! I thought Jacqueline was really good in this movie, you had a lot of compassion for her. But yeah, she looked too young to be a mother of a boy that old.
shareI thought Jacqueline MacInness Wood gave a good tough performance. Tricky ingenuous plot in this one. I like Lifetime.
shareI may have been a little bias in my evaluation of her performance in this movie. I thought she was put in an awkward position of playing someone much older. It's a lot harder to look and play a more mature role when your that young and gorgeous. By the way she was 28 when she made this movie, but she looks younger.
shareShe is youthful looking as you say. I don't know if she was supposed to be playing a 30-something aged character. I was trying to judge, but I've forgotten the approximate age of her son Billy in this movie.
shareI want to say 12-14 years old, they did not list his date of birth on IMDb. Every time I saw the two together, she must have had him when she was 14 or 15 years old.
Someone defending this casting choice would say how do we know he is not adopted or he is her step-son. My reply to that would be, then why didn't they tell us that in the story line.
Other than that I thought it was one of LMN's better movies.
I thought that Billy was a teenager when I was trying to check the actor's age on IMDb. It was not the best casting age-wise. But the mom does some athletic stuff in the movie. Her part really calls for the agility of an actor like Jacqueline MacInness Ward. Apart from this age-casting faults, overall it a good LMN effort as you say.
shareI just watched this movie and IMO I think it is very good for a low budget kind of film. The story line is plausible - I felt the acting was good. I enjoyed it and am recommending it to my brother, who likes to watch a variety of movie genres. I did not feel the age of the main character was badly matched to that of her son. This is not a weak point IMO. The story line indicated that she had married her first husband straight out of high school and that would make her looking young absolutely plausible. The way she was portrayed as "stepping up to the plate" when her son was endangered was believable as was the part where she escaped from the young police officer. He was portrayed as being young and inexperienced, not yet a police officer long enough to have become disillusioned or looking for the easy answer like some (as pointed out by the one who has the talk with him about not letting the others get to him, and when he asks her "Doesn't that seem too easy?" (or something along that line) she replies "I like easy, it gets me home in time for supper" (words like that), I thought that this is also plausible. This seems to point out what seems to be common but is wrong in society today - the assumption on the part of police and others that everything is easy, simple to see, and there could never be anything diabolical in any situation. Easy to damn someone who has been set up if not delving into the details and wondering why! So yes, I found this to be a great movie and would watch it again.
shareYou are preaching to the choir considering how well the movie was detailed. It's just that when the mother and son were together, it just stood out like a sore thumb to me. She just looked to darn young to be the mother of some 14 year old.
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