A good film but very predictable no suspense but addictable
17 Reviews
Addictive
shady-8281910 January 2021
Don't Waste Your Time
akawandie5 September 2020
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I love Lifetime movies most of the time and I like Joey Lawrence. This might be a lot better but the acting is terrible! Especially the female characters. Very unrealistic. And who searches all over town for their child in 4 inch heels? Give me a break.
Mom to the rescue
phd_travel13 January 2019
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The Taken formula usually works to get you interested. So this abduction and rescue movie starts fairly involving.
Katrina Begin is attractive as ex hostage negotiator Mom. A slew of other familiar faces helps make this more watchable. Joey Lawrence as cheating Dad, David Chokachi as ex partner cop who helps Mom.
Some rather lame things like accusing her ex partner of taking her daughter. The perpetrator is kind of pathetic.
Ok for one watch but not great.
Katrina Begin is attractive as ex hostage negotiator Mom. A slew of other familiar faces helps make this more watchable. Joey Lawrence as cheating Dad, David Chokachi as ex partner cop who helps Mom.
Some rather lame things like accusing her ex partner of taking her daughter. The perpetrator is kind of pathetic.
Ok for one watch but not great.
Worst acting ever
caronknipp7 October 2018
Omg I can't sleep and stopped on this channel to read a text and it's like a train wreck I can't look away. The plot is kind of a rip of of Taken but soooooo bad. I have seen better acting at grade school plays.
And I would only give it a quarter of a star if I could
And I would only give it a quarter of a star if I could
Beyond awful
deberoony15 March 2019
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Don't waste your time, acting is awful, film predictable, mother and daughter look more like Sisters so the whole plot starts as unrealistic to start with, Alice runs about in high heels trying to save the daughter, Brent with the most ridiculous eyebrows is supposed to be having an affair with the secretary who looks 40 yrs older than his attractive wife, cheesy, ridiculous and definitely worth missing!
Oh Wow , This Is Bad !
carolynocean8 June 2021
This movie is about a kidnapping of a teenage girl ( yawn ) , and right from the start it is boring ! So , the young glamorous Mom is SO stressed about her kidnapped daughter , that she still has the time to reapply her lipstick and look georgous !!!
By the way ,the daughter is about the same age as glam Mom !!!!!
Meanwhile she has the help of ' McGuiver ' lookalike Steve to help in the search until useless ,cheating Dad of kidnapped daughter arrives .
Oh , did I mention that Mom just happens to be .....wait for it .....................an ex hostage negotiator , yes you heard right .
There are some hilarious flashbacks to be seen regarding that .
Really though ,I do think that everyone SHOULD watch this utter piece of rubbish, and just enjoy how bad it is .
I had such a laugh with this one , a little gem !!!!!!
By the way ,the daughter is about the same age as glam Mom !!!!!
Meanwhile she has the help of ' McGuiver ' lookalike Steve to help in the search until useless ,cheating Dad of kidnapped daughter arrives .
Oh , did I mention that Mom just happens to be .....wait for it .....................an ex hostage negotiator , yes you heard right .
There are some hilarious flashbacks to be seen regarding that .
Really though ,I do think that everyone SHOULD watch this utter piece of rubbish, and just enjoy how bad it is .
I had such a laugh with this one , a little gem !!!!!!
Story good but acting horrible.
teasamplesforsale26 April 2019
very bad acting
marCCCini18 March 2019
Biting off of Taken. LOL
CranberriAppl28 February 2020
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This is not good. I knew it was going to be bad when the lead actress barely looked older than her daughter. I actually only DIDN'T turn it off bc Joey Lawrence and Cody from Baywatch were in it. Anyway, the scene where the girl gets kidnapped...I mean really? In that nice neighborhood, they didn't have a nosy neighbor who would have seen everything?
Anyway, the scene where the mother is blatantly channeling Liam Neeson by telling the kidnapper how super serious she is was so CRINGE. She's not believable in this role. And the fact that she's doing all of this in strappy 4-in heels gives her even less credibility. Her hair is never out of place and you can tell btwn scenes they fluff and spray it over and over. Also, her acting is so stoic that it's not that obvious that this is her daughter over another victim. She never looks stressed or shows any emotion given that this is her "greatest fear."
Lifetime On Demand won't let me skip ahead, so I guess I have to wait it out. But it's bad so far. Both the acting and story.
Lastly, I'm also tired of the cheating spouses being added on to these stories just for the sake of making the leads more sympathetic. Why hasn't she told her husband their kid is missing yet? So wrong.
Edit: OMG talk about cringe. They want us to believe that as "civilians," this woman and Cody from Baywatch can just go threaten a prisoner they helped catch and it's no big deal? Yeah ok...try that. Then she threatens to kill the guy when honestly, it's more believable that even handcuffed, he could catch her off guard and yolk her AND Cody up. I mean, this movie is so so terrible.
Edit edit: sorry for spoilers, but the whole breakdown of the family is so played out. First off, it's not enough that the dad (Joey) had dubious business that gets him in legal trouble, but he's also cheating? And his crazy ex-mistress is the villain who's so crazy that she kidnaps and threatens to kill his daughter and yet comes off normal to his wife who she works for?! Just stop it Lifetime. STOP. Then the wife serves him papers for divorce (which I'm sure helps his case eye roll) and Cody from Baywatch has been lurking around for three months after he conveniently was around to help her find her kid all the while she wasn't telling the father. This movie is a mess.
Also, I don't think what happens in this movie (kidnapping) is enough to justify the mother's smothering of her daughter. If the kid goes to college in literally a span of months, then you have to let her go anyway. This movie is ridiculous.
Anyway, the scene where the mother is blatantly channeling Liam Neeson by telling the kidnapper how super serious she is was so CRINGE. She's not believable in this role. And the fact that she's doing all of this in strappy 4-in heels gives her even less credibility. Her hair is never out of place and you can tell btwn scenes they fluff and spray it over and over. Also, her acting is so stoic that it's not that obvious that this is her daughter over another victim. She never looks stressed or shows any emotion given that this is her "greatest fear."
Lifetime On Demand won't let me skip ahead, so I guess I have to wait it out. But it's bad so far. Both the acting and story.
Lastly, I'm also tired of the cheating spouses being added on to these stories just for the sake of making the leads more sympathetic. Why hasn't she told her husband their kid is missing yet? So wrong.
Edit: OMG talk about cringe. They want us to believe that as "civilians," this woman and Cody from Baywatch can just go threaten a prisoner they helped catch and it's no big deal? Yeah ok...try that. Then she threatens to kill the guy when honestly, it's more believable that even handcuffed, he could catch her off guard and yolk her AND Cody up. I mean, this movie is so so terrible.
Edit edit: sorry for spoilers, but the whole breakdown of the family is so played out. First off, it's not enough that the dad (Joey) had dubious business that gets him in legal trouble, but he's also cheating? And his crazy ex-mistress is the villain who's so crazy that she kidnaps and threatens to kill his daughter and yet comes off normal to his wife who she works for?! Just stop it Lifetime. STOP. Then the wife serves him papers for divorce (which I'm sure helps his case eye roll) and Cody from Baywatch has been lurking around for three months after he conveniently was around to help her find her kid all the while she wasn't telling the father. This movie is a mess.
Also, I don't think what happens in this movie (kidnapping) is enough to justify the mother's smothering of her daughter. If the kid goes to college in literally a span of months, then you have to let her go anyway. This movie is ridiculous.
O.K. Lifetime fare
mgconlan-17 October 2018
Last night's Lifetime "premiere" movie was called "A Mother's Greatest Fear," which revolves around the Goulds: mom Alice (Katrina Begin, top-billed); dad Brent (Joey Lawrence), who's a business partner with Alice in a land-development company as well as being her husband; and their daughter Maddy (Lily Delamere), who's getting restive under her mother's relentless overprotectiveness. Alice was formerly a police officer whose specialty was negotiating in hostage situations, and she worked with a partner, a detective named Steve Roberts (David Chokachi) who had the hots for her, though their relationship vibrated with mutual sexual attraction but stopped short of actual consummation. Their careers got derailed when they were assigned to go after a young man named Nick (Ian Niles), who had kidnapped his girlfriend Lily (Samm Wiechec) and was threatening to kill her with a knife at her throat if she didn't leave home and run away with him. Alice tried to bring Nick down with a gun, but her shot went wild and wounded Lily instead of Nick, whereupon Nick stabbed Lily fatally - and Alice blamed herself for Lily's death, quit the police force and joined her husband's business as his partner. This experience has made Alice fanatically overprotective towards her daughter Maddy, who in the opening scene asks for permission to attend a party with her high-school classmates (she's a senior but her mom is still driving her to school every morning, a fact for which her fellow students rib her), and mom gives her a flat-out no. Maddy sneaks out and goes to the party anyway, putting cushions in her bed so when mom looks in she'll think Maddy is still asleep. Maddy steals a pair of silver-flecked designer shoes of her mom's and walks to the party but leaves when the other kids there start passing around a bottle of wine and drinking from it. Alas, she's followed on her way walking home by a stranger in a mysterious SUV, who parks in such a way as to block Maddy's passage and knocks her out with an anesthetic, then throws her into the back of the car and drives off with her. The kidnapper then takes Maddy to what looks like a boiler room and ties her to a pipe, gagging her so she can't scream for help, and when Maddy asks what ransom he wants, the kidnapper responds by flashing a note reading, "Do not call the police." Mom decides that since she and her friend Steve - who's now working as a security guard after he quit the force over the Lily incident - used to be cops, they can solve Maddy's kidnapping themselves without having to report the crime officially.
The film cuts between rather dull scenes between Maddy and her abductor - who's dressed all in black, with a hood and a plastic mask that makes looks like Darth Vader's - and more interesting sequences of Alice and Steve investigating the crime. There's also a third plot strain that emerges around Alice's husband Brent, who in dealings he's carefully concealed from Alice has formed a partnership to develop a New York condo building with a mysterious man named Tony, who keeps calling Alice to complain that Brent is dodging meetings with him during his latest business trip to New York. Of course, in just about every Lifetime movie in which a married man takes a lot of out-of-town "business trips," "business trip" is code for "affair," and Brent's adulterous inamorata is right here at home: she's Victoria (Tandi Tugwell), Alice's office assistant. Alice and Steve learn from an old friend of his, a woman who works with the FBI, that Brent was under investigation for money laundering and quite a lot of illicit cash has been flowing through the business, recorded in secret online books Brent didn't let Alice see. Tony, his mystery partner in the New York condo development, is a mobster whom Brent took money from because he was too much in debt on his other projects to get capital from legitimate sources. Alice and Steve conclude that Maddy's kidnapping has something to do with Brent's mob ties and Tony is involved, but the kidnapper turns out to be someone with a more personal motive.
Katrina Begin looks too good for the role of Alice: young, sexy, clad in tight tops and even tighter jeans, she doesn't for one minute look old enough to have a daughter who's a senior in high school. Indeed, she and Lily Delamere look more like sisters than like mother and daughter. (Oddly, her hair designer gives Begin a considerably uglier hairdo in the tag scene than she has in the rest of the movie.) Also, neither of the two men in Alice's life is particularly attractive - Joey Lawrence as Brent shaves his head and has a moustache (virtually all his scenes show him in close-up so we don't get much of an idea what the rest of his body is like), while David Chokachi as Steve is tall, blond and has a great bod but is a bit too craggy-faced (and visibly old) to be man-meat dreamboat material. And Tandi Tugwell is so much less attractive than Katrina Begin - dark-haired and with an oddly lined face - one wonders why Brent is trading down by having an affair with her instead of staying with that hot, sexy wife of his! Nonetheless, "A Mother's Greatest Fear" is a better-than-average Lifetime movie - at least the characters are personable and there isn't a super-villain whose powers defy credibility - and it stuck closely enough to the Lifetime formula to "deliver the goods" while still offering a few neat variations on it.
The film cuts between rather dull scenes between Maddy and her abductor - who's dressed all in black, with a hood and a plastic mask that makes looks like Darth Vader's - and more interesting sequences of Alice and Steve investigating the crime. There's also a third plot strain that emerges around Alice's husband Brent, who in dealings he's carefully concealed from Alice has formed a partnership to develop a New York condo building with a mysterious man named Tony, who keeps calling Alice to complain that Brent is dodging meetings with him during his latest business trip to New York. Of course, in just about every Lifetime movie in which a married man takes a lot of out-of-town "business trips," "business trip" is code for "affair," and Brent's adulterous inamorata is right here at home: she's Victoria (Tandi Tugwell), Alice's office assistant. Alice and Steve learn from an old friend of his, a woman who works with the FBI, that Brent was under investigation for money laundering and quite a lot of illicit cash has been flowing through the business, recorded in secret online books Brent didn't let Alice see. Tony, his mystery partner in the New York condo development, is a mobster whom Brent took money from because he was too much in debt on his other projects to get capital from legitimate sources. Alice and Steve conclude that Maddy's kidnapping has something to do with Brent's mob ties and Tony is involved, but the kidnapper turns out to be someone with a more personal motive.
Katrina Begin looks too good for the role of Alice: young, sexy, clad in tight tops and even tighter jeans, she doesn't for one minute look old enough to have a daughter who's a senior in high school. Indeed, she and Lily Delamere look more like sisters than like mother and daughter. (Oddly, her hair designer gives Begin a considerably uglier hairdo in the tag scene than she has in the rest of the movie.) Also, neither of the two men in Alice's life is particularly attractive - Joey Lawrence as Brent shaves his head and has a moustache (virtually all his scenes show him in close-up so we don't get much of an idea what the rest of his body is like), while David Chokachi as Steve is tall, blond and has a great bod but is a bit too craggy-faced (and visibly old) to be man-meat dreamboat material. And Tandi Tugwell is so much less attractive than Katrina Begin - dark-haired and with an oddly lined face - one wonders why Brent is trading down by having an affair with her instead of staying with that hot, sexy wife of his! Nonetheless, "A Mother's Greatest Fear" is a better-than-average Lifetime movie - at least the characters are personable and there isn't a super-villain whose powers defy credibility - and it stuck closely enough to the Lifetime formula to "deliver the goods" while still offering a few neat variations on it.
If I had paid to watch this I would be furious
dontgetsaltybruv8 June 2021
This came on daytime TV. Me being bored and with too much time on my hands I decided to watch this. But I forwarded some parts. The acting is so bad it'll make you cry. The storyline is rushed and cliche. If I paid to watch this at the cinema, I would be furious.
Beverly Hills Cop
lavatch21 November 2020
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Mrs. Alice Gould is a former hostage negotiator, who has now become an overprotective mom to her seventeen-year-old daughter Maddie. "A Mother's Worst Fear" features Mrs. Gould racing around Beverly Hills in her high heels in a desperate search for her kidnapped daughter.
The abduction of young Maddie is a strange affair in that the perp is not demanding any ransom and will not even speak to the immediate family. So, Mrs. Gould and her friend Steve, a former cop, are frustrated in their search for a motivation and clues that will lead them to Maddie.
Mrs. Gould's husband Brent appears on the surface to be a loving father. But behind the scenes, he has deceived his wife about his financial transactions and has recently conducted a shady deal with the underworld figure Tony Materelli. Brent has also been sleeping with his assistant, Victoria, who introduced him to Tony and believes that she will become the next Mrs. Gould.
The heart and soul of the film was in the decency of Mrs. Gould and her steadfast love of her daughter. The film's theme of over-protectiveness was well developed and indeed not unfounded. Victoria became hysterical when it appeared that Brent might not leave his wife, and the assistant became so out-of-control that she was even willing to sell young Maddie into Tony Materelli's human trafficking ring.
In a fateful incident in the past, Mrs. Gould and Steve failed to save young Lilly from his kidnapper, Nick. The woman's death has haunted them both as they moved on with their careers and their lives. Now, Mrs. Gould has been given a second chance in the opportunity to rescue her daughter. In the moment of truth, she uses all of her skills to demonstrate not only that she is a resourceful Beverly Hills cop, but also a caring and devoted mom.
The abduction of young Maddie is a strange affair in that the perp is not demanding any ransom and will not even speak to the immediate family. So, Mrs. Gould and her friend Steve, a former cop, are frustrated in their search for a motivation and clues that will lead them to Maddie.
Mrs. Gould's husband Brent appears on the surface to be a loving father. But behind the scenes, he has deceived his wife about his financial transactions and has recently conducted a shady deal with the underworld figure Tony Materelli. Brent has also been sleeping with his assistant, Victoria, who introduced him to Tony and believes that she will become the next Mrs. Gould.
The heart and soul of the film was in the decency of Mrs. Gould and her steadfast love of her daughter. The film's theme of over-protectiveness was well developed and indeed not unfounded. Victoria became hysterical when it appeared that Brent might not leave his wife, and the assistant became so out-of-control that she was even willing to sell young Maddie into Tony Materelli's human trafficking ring.
In a fateful incident in the past, Mrs. Gould and Steve failed to save young Lilly from his kidnapper, Nick. The woman's death has haunted them both as they moved on with their careers and their lives. Now, Mrs. Gould has been given a second chance in the opportunity to rescue her daughter. In the moment of truth, she uses all of her skills to demonstrate not only that she is a resourceful Beverly Hills cop, but also a caring and devoted mom.
Don't waste your time🙄
dunn-dd27 October 2018
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Spoiler alert. This movie sucks. Let's be real most of the new lifetime made movies are terrible but this was really bad. Joey Lawrence is in it but it still sucked. The acting was horrendous and none of the "high schoolers" could even pass for a teenager. The dad (Joey Lawrence) was cheating on his beautiful wife with his ugly old looking assistant. The dialogue was so dry and unbelievable. The dad was super shady and was "away for work" most of the of the movie. The mom used to be a hostage negotiator but she sucked at her job lol. They showed flashbacks of it and I guess they meant to show the worse of her work lol. They tried to add suspense but it was so random lol. Random characters, random dialogue, the whole movie was just random lol. Don't waste your time unless you enjoy watching movies so you can tear them apart which was pretty much what I did.
Terrible flick
geoffox-766-41846729 November 2018
This is one of those "who kidnapped my daughter" and a mother's search for her. Suddenly this model type female, that doesn't look that much older then the girl who played her daughter, goes on the hunt for her. Brazenly busting into places and accosting people she thinks are the kidnappers. The usual stuff but bad acting on top of it. In a co-starring role David Chokachi attempts to bring some honesty to a thankless role. As for the mother, Katrin Begin, didn't fare so well. Not a good actress with too much makeup for a worried mommie. Her fake eyelashes were so obvious. Now tell me, who would bother to wear false eyelashes and lots of makeup when in search for their missing daughter? It's like she is trying to pass as young as her daughter. Same long bleached hair, spiked shows, tight pants and top showing her shape, if you know what I mean. Maybe she was unaware how badly they dressed her and made her up. That's it. Nothing much about the film itself except it ain't that good, folks.
Diabolical
haroot_azarian3 February 2020
Outright just terrible acting. Stupid story line. ok do my review is too short so I will copy and paste it here again!
Outright just terrible acting. Stupid story line. ok do my review is too short so I will copy and paste it here again!
Terrible !!
svader3 March 2020
2 hours of my life I'll never get back!
donnacline7 February 2019
I thought this would be a good movie since I was familiar with the actors but I decided very quickly it was more of a B rated movie! I'm not sure how many former hostage negotiators would leave the house in stiletto heels to search for their missing child.... I would have had to either change shoes or throw them off yet our female lead wears them the entire movie. Really?!?
The acting in some scenes of the movie were okay but most of the acting was merely mediocre. Although I know Joey Lawrence, Katrina Begin, and David Chokachi are fairly seasoned actors, this movie makes you feel they are without prior acting experience.
I'm an avid movie watcher and desire closure so I stuck it out until the end of the movie. I shouldn't have wasted my time on this one...it was 2 hours of my life I'll never get back!
The acting in some scenes of the movie were okay but most of the acting was merely mediocre. Although I know Joey Lawrence, Katrina Begin, and David Chokachi are fairly seasoned actors, this movie makes you feel they are without prior acting experience.
I'm an avid movie watcher and desire closure so I stuck it out until the end of the movie. I shouldn't have wasted my time on this one...it was 2 hours of my life I'll never get back!
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