The whole thing was unbelievably stupid- too many scenes were taken up with the mother's boyfriend who didn't believe her and was so, so annoying and clichéd. I just wanted her to tell him to get lost for good so I wouldn't have to listen to his whining. Do they have to have someone like this in every Lifetime drama? The daughter's boyfriend ranting on and on in an insane way was just a ridiculous character, too.
shareThe entire movie was ridiculous. The mother was much too young to have a daughter that old. The daughter was as dumb as a box of rocks. The actor who played her gave a particularly bad performance. The mother and her boyfriend were idiots for not kicking the kid out of their house when he snapped at the daughter/his girlfriend while they were eating because she "interrupted him." The daughter was an idiot for being with someone like that in the first place. Then the mother, her boyfriend, and the daughter were all a pack of idiots for sticking around with the kid who talks to his mom like that in front of everyone (she "stunk up the house" while cooking so they had to eat outside, are you serious)? What part of this are we supposed to buy? Who are we supposed to sympathize with? I was done with it 15 minutes in.
shareNot really the actress playing the mom is 38 so I'm assuming that the character was around that age and the daughter is supposed to be 18 which means she had her at 20. Granted there has been cases where people are playing older when they play parents but that's not what's happening here.
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while everything you said is true, it's just not realistic that almost every Lifetime movie is written this way. The parents always look too young. every Lifetime movie can't have parents who all just happened to have their kids at 18, and then are so successful as to always live in big nice houses.
the exception is always the one kid from the wrong side of the tracks. S/he always has an old alcoholic mother and no father or an unemployed father,, or no parents at all and live with grandparents. and most of them live in trailers. wow, this movie covered everything!
>>The mother was much too young to have a daughter that old.
Not just in this movie, but in most Lifetime movies it's like this. I said the same thing to my boyfriend (yes, he watches these with me lol). I said, did everybody have their kids at 18 in these movies? all the parents always look so young, and in nice big houses too. I know there are exceptions, but it's just not realistic. he agrees.
You need a fast-forward button, lakealice. I saw the first five minutes, ff'ed at triple time to the ransom demand and watched the end. With a 12 minute investment, I didn't even miss any of the plot points.
This was really bad, even by Lifetime Movie standards.
I always see these Lifetime thriller types through to the end. It did keep me guessing. Average and typical. I gave it 5/10.
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