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God what a horribly anticlimactic ending

posted 11 years ago by mikesod
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The creepy older guy served no purpose as the bad guy. Horrible at molesting Candace, and horrible at whatever crime they were planning. From the beginning of the movie, I honestly thought she was going to get raped and held hostage or something.

The way he was just shot and killed so easily, I laughed. Lazy writing there. And stupid girl, she goes and cries by his deathbed instead of going to answer the door for her mother, whom I'm very sure she recognizes from her voice.

[–] hrhhrh 11 years ago

Hey, it's a Lifetime movie! Facts are irrelevant. Hormones reign!

[–] mikesod 11 years ago

True that! I viewed this movie as mostly a comedy.

[–] JudeDeveraux 10 years ago

The creepy older guy

Creepy older guy?

He was not creepy...older, yeah which was kinda gross since Candace was supposed to be 17. His age was never given but I would guess late 20's.

You're right...that ending was stupid!
Especially the end at her birthday party.

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[–] ps90 9 years ago

That dude was mad creepy...he had that creepy smile and look. I seriously thought he was going to rape her bc he acted like it.

Ans that girl was so stupid...going in a car with a random older creepy guy that she doesn't know...she was lucky he didnt rape her.

[–] jay-nkadi 9 years ago

Tbh, I was barely paying attention to the film like AT ALL. It was dreadful, but that ending did seem very weird to me too.

[–] MyLily 8 years ago

In the beginning of the movie, I felt like Toby was being nice to try to win her over. I was waiting the whole movie for Tony to sell her into Human Traffiking. Then he kept throwing the word "loan" around to her about the money she borrowed for the PI. I kept wondering if he was gonna use her as a sex slave to pay off her debt. I felt like the creepy cousin was secretly trying to persuade Toby into selling her into the sex as well. Then I felt like her real brother was SO mad that his mom wanted to sober up for the daughter and not for him that I thought he was gonna beat the crap out of her.
It just really ended up being that Toby really did care about her and wanted to
help her find her birth mom.
I felt like this movie was very poorly written. The adopted mother kept imagining her rolled up in a tarp and dumped from a creepy Van. What were the writer's trying to prove? That adopted mother's really don't have a mother's intuition.
Oh and the pilot dad and the PI guy looked very similar I thought.