And Baby Will Fall (2011 TV Movie) User Reviews

Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Murder Melody

[wes-connors · 5/10 · 28 December 2015]

A nightmare awakens pretty pregnant Anastasia Griffith (as Ivy). After two miscarriages, Ms. Griffith is afraid of losing another baby. Handsome husband Brendan Fehr (as David Rose) assures her they're not leaving the hospital without a live baby. To make room in their big, beautiful house, the happy couple has a yard sale. Their high school classmate Clea DuVall (as Melinda "Mindy" White) attends. Coincidently, Ms. DuVall is quite visible pregnant. A fourth former classmate, lawyer Stephen Lobo (as Theo Gavros) enters the story. Good thing he's a lawyer, because everyone's going to need one before this story is over...

Director Bradley Walsh and his crew do a good job keeping this "Lifetime" TV movie interesting. Cheers to Mr. Walsh and film editor Roger Mattiussi for making the simple pulling of a piece glass from the lead actress's foot look real and nasty. Having the main players know each other back to their high school days (at least) adds some depth to the usual formula. Therein, we do find a good reason for the villain's derangement. However, it does add a problem to the mix. That being, with everything else seeming fine in their relationship, it's difficult to believe one character thinks another character is capable of such a gruesome murder. In spite of this challenge, the players do well in their roles. The ending is way too rough for any miscarriage-prone mother, but it keeps you watching.

***** And Baby Will Fall (2011-01-23) Bradley Walsh ~ Anastasia Griffith, Brendan Fehr, Clea DuVall, Stephen Lobo

Rock-A-Bye Movie: ...And Baby Will Fall ***

[edwagreen · 7/10 · 9 June 2011]

This film seemed to be in the league of a Stephen King thriller, or just another horror flick at best.

Expecting their baby after the wife has suffered 2 previous miscarriages, our young couple is visited by a woman, also seemingly pregnant at their garage sale. Mayhem breaks loose when the woman goes missing and it soon appears that the husband was having an affair with her and may have done her in as well.

Of course, there is always the family friend, an attorney who is seeking public office. Does he have his own personal agenda in this situation?

The ending is somewhat of a shocker. Our missing lady deserves to be institutionalized.

A Labor of Love

[lavatch · 6/10 · 17 August 2021]

In the annals of recorded childbirths, Ivy Rose may set the record for the most arduous labor prior to her delivery of a miracle baby. In addition to coping with the pangs of Braxton Hicks, Ivy must tumble down a dumbwaiter, then ward off a vicious assailant, prior to being rushed to the delivery room in the hospital.

While "And Baby Will Fall" might be subtitled "a labor of love," it was also overly unpleasant in the proclivity for lying, deceit, rape, and murder. Ivy's husband David, though well-intentioned, did not disclose the entire truth about his past association with Melinda "Mindy" White. Similarly, the attorney Theo Chavros, the best friend of David and a budding politician, never came clean to his friends about what he did to Mindy in the bowling alley.

The world of Webster Falls is governed by superstition and obfuscation. Ivy feels the need of her amulet in order to reproduce. Mindy genuinely believes that the baby carried by Ivy is her own and effectively disguises herself in the delicate state of pregnancy. Detective Blanchard dutifully follows the trail of evidence only to meet with one surprise after another.

The completely unnecessary death of the little dog Phoebe added yet another unpleasant mark against an otherwise well-crafted mystery that uncovers layer upon layer of deception in the sordid world of Webster Falls.

Animal violence: so predictable

[amoss53 · 3/10 · 13 January 2014]

You know, every time you see a cute little dog in a movie like this, the "villain" winds up killing it--a cheap device to prove how "evil" they are. As an animal lover, I am so weary of this scenario. Though I was wary as soon as they showed the dog, I hoped this convention would be bypassed this time. I was actually enjoying this movie up to the point the heroine discovered the dog's body in the crib, and annoyed that this crime was never referred to again. Did anyone but me feel for the dog's elderly female owner? who was bashed on the head and also lost her pet, likely her only companion. Or are we just supposed to forget that and be happy that the heroine's seemingly endless pregnancy finally culminated in a birth.

Oh Woman in Our Hour of Need

[boblipton · 3/10 · 23 January 2011]

This Lifetime Movie Channel has a very pregnant woman involved in a murder investigation as her husband is accused of murdering another very pregnant woman. Despite the fact that they have known each other since they were children, she seems to have no trouble believing the other woman was his mistress, that the baby was his, that he stabbed both to death, moved the body to where it could not be found, then put the murder weapon and her bloody dress in their trash for pickup in a few days.... until her neighbor gets her head bashed in while her husband is in custody, at which point she decides that the police are wrong and she goes off to investigate on her own.

This revelation takes place about two-thirds of the way through the movie and after that it becomes a decent enough bit of private-citizen-out-investigates-the-cops. Unfortunately, by the time this happened, not only had I figured out the solution to the mystery, but I was thoroughly disgusted with the way the lead was written. I stuck around to the end, but only to marvel at the obvious issues of the movie. As is all too typical for these LMN TV-movies, it all turns into a woman-at-risk piece, shot in low light levels for that air of lurking paranoia.

The structure of the traditional murder mystery is that society and the individual are dealt a terrible blow by murder, but that solution and punishment of the criminal work mightily to mitigate that. As the form evolved and matured, it came to recognize that there is no going back. However, this movie is simply pandering to paranoia.

I should note that actors involved do a fine job. It's just a pity that they couldn't have done so with a less loathsome script.

Well-Made TV Movie

[saras-976-420341 · 8/10 · 13 February 2011]

And Baby Will Fall is a much-better than average, meat-and-potatoes psychological thriller. It's a TV movie airing on Lifetime Movie Network, so the best that I hope for is a well crafted story that engages and entertains me - keeps me in my chair for two hours. And Baby Will Fall not only kept me glued to it, it provided a few surprising and fun twists and turns along the way. The second hour is particularly fast-paced. All three of the lead actors turn in strong performances. Anastasia Griffith and Brenden Fehr make a visually beautiful pairing and the tension that grows between their characters as the drama unfolds is authentic and original. Without giving anything away, Clea Duvall steals the last act of the movie with a shrewd performance that could have gone horribly wrong in the hands of a lesser actor. This is a well-made movie with strong performances and a fun story. It's the type of entertainment I hope for when I tune-in to LMN.

Keeps you interested

[mary-179-677383 · 9/10 · 19 December 2015]

I really liked this movie, from start to end. I found it very interesting and I actually didn't think it was predictable as others mentioned. I'd say there was a few moments that you could say were predictable, but those scenes still had mystery and excitement and were intentionally put there for viewer enjoyment. The scene when a nurse is injecting the expectant mother is an obvious moment, when you can predict that the nurse is not working with the hospital. However the movie does this on purpose to create that mystery. As the nurse looks through the glass door watching that she isn't caught. Also the villain is portrayed really well and in the end you will see how obsessed and delusional the character was, which gave the storyline merit. What could have been a really stupid twist at the end, was actually very believable due to great acting and writing.

I would have liked to see an outcome for what happened to the poor little dog.

Overall, a very entertaining movie. I was able to watch it without using my laptop or phone.