Did I miss something? This movie was all over the place but was Hayden the pappy?
8 Reviews
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ops-5253520 September 2020
By very conservative babies rights organisation, because it is a film about the crazy business of surrogazy, or do the tadpole till the frog eg the little prince or sesse is out in fresh air, and how irresponsible these women are, doing this for a handfull of doughs.
its a film made for the tv-screen, many breaks that clips the plot in pieces, its mainly made for a female audience, with uttermost beautiful and glittering actors and surroundings, with a story so straight forward that even men understands the issue.
so the grumpy old man who doesnt blame anyone for doing surrogacy, found this flick not so dumb, so a small recommend from the grumpy old man
its a film made for the tv-screen, many breaks that clips the plot in pieces, its mainly made for a female audience, with uttermost beautiful and glittering actors and surroundings, with a story so straight forward that even men understands the issue.
so the grumpy old man who doesnt blame anyone for doing surrogacy, found this flick not so dumb, so a small recommend from the grumpy old man
Bizarro!
Chartreuse120 September 2020
This was one freaky movie that I wish I hadn't watched. The plot was all over the place with plenty of continuity flaws. Broke little girl becomes the surrogate for a washed-up actress and suspects she's in danger and tries to escape but the movie is badly written and badly acted. One of the worst Lifetime movies I had to sit through. Skip it..
Terrible
smstevens-387591 July 2021
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Imagine if Handmaid's Tale was written by a stoned fish missing a quarter of its brain. That is this movie. The worst part was the "there's no possible universe where this love story would happen" unbearable ending. Dumb.
Mama drama doesn't deliver
bzager22 January 2021
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This production is just the latest in a string of "surrogate-as-victim" stories made (up) for television. Here, a kinky Hollywood couple get their surrogate pregnant and then pull out all the stops to terrify her. This lazy production features unknown actors. Hopefully, they will want to leave this bomb off their resumes.
Some third act suspense, but otherwise, mainly disbelief.
Davalon-Davalon4 May 2021
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There are too many problems with this to cover in a review, but here are a few things:
We start off with "Olivia Bolton" (Carrie Wampler, who has a pretty face, but is forced to wear false eyelashes for the entire film, and who doesn't really come into her own until the third act) making out with her hot bf, then realizing she's late for her work as a waitress/hostess in NYC. She's been late, apparently, 36 times. She gets fired, goes back to her apartment to find out that her roommate has found another roommate, because Olivia hasn't paid the rent in six months. Then Olivia suddenly has an envelope of tips in her purse, throws them on the table and says, "Here are all my tips!" -- as if that's going to cover six months of rent in NYC. The roommate doesn't care. Then Olivia goes back to bf's place to find out he's doing some other hot babe.
Olivia, without any money, goes into an upscale coffee shop, orders her drink, then sends out a text to her "friends" that she's looking for a job (she should have also added place to live, since she was homeless). In less than a minute, a message comes in from her friend "Cassidy" (Jordyn Aurora Aquino, who has talent and presence). They meet at some upscale bar and Cassidy tells her that a high profile couple she works for (in California) is looking for a surrogate. They'll pay Olivia 150k. Olivia hesitates, but then realizes she has no other choice.
This is a long set-up to get Olivia to the house of Ava and Hayden Von Richter. Ava is, it seems, a somewhat washed-up Hollywood star; Hayden is... her husband. They want a baby, Ava can't have one, but Olivia can. Great.
The story continues on with Olivia living in the very, very isolated estate of Ava and Hayden, with "Cass" (who apparently has a sick mother, mentioned very briefly at her first meeting with Olivia, but who plays a huge role in the third act, at least in name; we never see her), who seems to be Ava's assistant. Ava and Hayden have a very questionable relationship; there are drugs, lots of alcohol, no sense of responsibility, no sense of anyone else being of any importance other than them. They are despicable, but Ava knows how to turn on the charm when needed.
Olivia doesn't seem particularly bright and her only "friend" is Peter, the in-house cook. Olivia sees Ava and Hayden self-destructing before her eyes and eventually tries to escape (after having a brutally honest conversation with Cass -- one of the best scenes in the movie). This of course is a terrible mistake and in one of the film's actually good moments, Ava and Hayden unite as a couple and hold a press conference to "get their baby back" -- even though it's pathetically obvious that they are not suited to be parents. Ava then blatantly lies to the press about Olivia's "drug use" and "stealing" -- it's so pathetically stupid.
Then Olivia is "returned" to Ava and put into a dungeon-like room and chained up. Finally Hayden leaves Ava, and Ava decides she doesn't want the baby anymore. The truth is, Ava is so effed up that she could have offed Olivia right then and there, but instead she tells a very pregnant Olivia that she'll be going to the doctor the next morning to "terminate" the pregnancy. No doctor would do that unless the mother's life was in danger, and Olivia is in perfect health.
Finally, it's time for the baby to come. Even though Olivia is in a dungeon-like room, her cries for help are heard by Cass, who, instead of stalwartly standing by Ava like a faithful slave, finally unlocks Olivia's chains (why did Cass have the key and not Ava? This is Lifetime!). They escape, grab a car and get on the road.
From this point forward there is about a 5-7 minute sequence that was really good (except for the long explanation about the "eggs" that Olivia is impregnated with -- it doesn't make any sense at all, none), but Olivia and Cass come into their own as actresses and even Ava (Brianne Davis, who has the cold ice princess thing down to a science) shows that she can really be an evil "b."
While there is one satisfying moment during this tense exchange between the three women, there really needed to be one more, and because there wasn't, the ending fails.
Then we have an epilogue, which I won't waste my time telling you about, because I thought it was essentially insane and pointless.
I spent a lot of time laughing at some of the lines and some of the over-the-top moments. Yes, the film looked good, and some of the actors had their moments. The music, as in most of these films, is over-the-top and constantly signaling something horrible is about to happen.
I cleaned up my old email folders as I watched the movie; it does engage you from time to time and I give them props for the effort, but honestly, there were so many laughable moments that I can't really give it more stars than I did.
We start off with "Olivia Bolton" (Carrie Wampler, who has a pretty face, but is forced to wear false eyelashes for the entire film, and who doesn't really come into her own until the third act) making out with her hot bf, then realizing she's late for her work as a waitress/hostess in NYC. She's been late, apparently, 36 times. She gets fired, goes back to her apartment to find out that her roommate has found another roommate, because Olivia hasn't paid the rent in six months. Then Olivia suddenly has an envelope of tips in her purse, throws them on the table and says, "Here are all my tips!" -- as if that's going to cover six months of rent in NYC. The roommate doesn't care. Then Olivia goes back to bf's place to find out he's doing some other hot babe.
Olivia, without any money, goes into an upscale coffee shop, orders her drink, then sends out a text to her "friends" that she's looking for a job (she should have also added place to live, since she was homeless). In less than a minute, a message comes in from her friend "Cassidy" (Jordyn Aurora Aquino, who has talent and presence). They meet at some upscale bar and Cassidy tells her that a high profile couple she works for (in California) is looking for a surrogate. They'll pay Olivia 150k. Olivia hesitates, but then realizes she has no other choice.
This is a long set-up to get Olivia to the house of Ava and Hayden Von Richter. Ava is, it seems, a somewhat washed-up Hollywood star; Hayden is... her husband. They want a baby, Ava can't have one, but Olivia can. Great.
The story continues on with Olivia living in the very, very isolated estate of Ava and Hayden, with "Cass" (who apparently has a sick mother, mentioned very briefly at her first meeting with Olivia, but who plays a huge role in the third act, at least in name; we never see her), who seems to be Ava's assistant. Ava and Hayden have a very questionable relationship; there are drugs, lots of alcohol, no sense of responsibility, no sense of anyone else being of any importance other than them. They are despicable, but Ava knows how to turn on the charm when needed.
Olivia doesn't seem particularly bright and her only "friend" is Peter, the in-house cook. Olivia sees Ava and Hayden self-destructing before her eyes and eventually tries to escape (after having a brutally honest conversation with Cass -- one of the best scenes in the movie). This of course is a terrible mistake and in one of the film's actually good moments, Ava and Hayden unite as a couple and hold a press conference to "get their baby back" -- even though it's pathetically obvious that they are not suited to be parents. Ava then blatantly lies to the press about Olivia's "drug use" and "stealing" -- it's so pathetically stupid.
Then Olivia is "returned" to Ava and put into a dungeon-like room and chained up. Finally Hayden leaves Ava, and Ava decides she doesn't want the baby anymore. The truth is, Ava is so effed up that she could have offed Olivia right then and there, but instead she tells a very pregnant Olivia that she'll be going to the doctor the next morning to "terminate" the pregnancy. No doctor would do that unless the mother's life was in danger, and Olivia is in perfect health.
Finally, it's time for the baby to come. Even though Olivia is in a dungeon-like room, her cries for help are heard by Cass, who, instead of stalwartly standing by Ava like a faithful slave, finally unlocks Olivia's chains (why did Cass have the key and not Ava? This is Lifetime!). They escape, grab a car and get on the road.
From this point forward there is about a 5-7 minute sequence that was really good (except for the long explanation about the "eggs" that Olivia is impregnated with -- it doesn't make any sense at all, none), but Olivia and Cass come into their own as actresses and even Ava (Brianne Davis, who has the cold ice princess thing down to a science) shows that she can really be an evil "b."
While there is one satisfying moment during this tense exchange between the three women, there really needed to be one more, and because there wasn't, the ending fails.
Then we have an epilogue, which I won't waste my time telling you about, because I thought it was essentially insane and pointless.
I spent a lot of time laughing at some of the lines and some of the over-the-top moments. Yes, the film looked good, and some of the actors had their moments. The music, as in most of these films, is over-the-top and constantly signaling something horrible is about to happen.
I cleaned up my old email folders as I watched the movie; it does engage you from time to time and I give them props for the effort, but honestly, there were so many laughable moments that I can't really give it more stars than I did.
Not exactly a Lifetime movie
moviemaven7123 September 2020
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I usually watch Lifetime to escape. It's going to be a little over the top and campy. This one started out like a romantic comedy and turned pretty quick. From inappropriate behavior to drug addiction, this realistic take on Hollywood celebrity lifestyle was spot on. I was on the edge of my seat. It of course has a couple of holes in the story (and I wonder why Olivia doesn't leave from the first time he hits on her) but the actors keep you engaged and it somehow works.
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