A Mother on the Edge

Blair (Kelly Thiebaud) is struggling with a couple of issues raising her daughter Lori. She has split from her husband. She is suing a computer company for stealing her code. She goes to pick up Lori from her school and she's not there. There are no records of her. Everybody tells Blair that she got into a car accident where her daughter died. All of a sudden, she cannot trust her own memories of the past two months.

This is Lifetime trying to do a Kafkaesque mystery. The conspiracy would have to be pretty extensive. Even then, there are obvious solutions to her problem. She is the mother. She can dig up the grave and do an DNA test if necessarily. The lawyer should be smarter than this. The movie should be smarter than this. It's not. I buy Blair being an irrational mother, but the lawyer really should be smarter. There should be so much evidence of Lori's existence that this scam would never work. The husband is also too dumb. At what point would Lori go to the police about all of it. Lori cannot live and neither can the husband. This scheme has way too many holes.

I have a chronic illness, so I will admit that I watch a lot of movies and I love Lifetime movies, the cheesier the better ;) My favorites are the mystery/moms in distress, so this sounded perfect. Boy was I disappointed.

The lead actress was very appealing, but that's as far as I can go with positive things to say. You always know where these movies are going but this one was just ridiculous. And the fight scene... I'm all for female empowerment but that was just ridiculous.

Also, I know that a lot of Lifetime movie are made in Canada and star Canadian actors, but a HUGE pet peeve of mine is when an actor (the husband in this case) slips out of their American accent. He even asks to use the washroom instead of the bathroom. I actually laughed out loud when he said that!

Unbelievable plot and most unsympathetic lead character ever. I was rooting against her.

It was too difficult to focus on the plot and acting with that ridiculous, repetitive thumping sound track, which was too overpowering, loud.

The plot may have been okay IF we were able to endure that background noise, which made if difficult to hear the dialogue too.

A complicated conspiracy to convince a woman her daughter is dead and she has blocked it out. It's interesting to see how she goes after all the people conspiring fool her. The actress Kelly Thiebaud is quite good. There is quite a lot of action by Lifetime standards and grand finale is exciting.