jenifer-m99

I understand that Lifetime movies aren't exactly Oscar worthy, but COME ON!! The dialogue was terrible, the acting was horrendous, and the storyline was empty. You don't really get a true feel for what Meghan's motive was. Was she jealous? Was she desperate for a child? Was she trying to prevent her boyfriend from breaking up with her? Was she just mentally ill?

We don't even really find out what happened. Did the girls have a fight? Did she plan it? Why did the boyfriend believe he was the father? The baby is 3 weeks old when Heidi is killed. Did the boyfriend ask when the baby was born? Did he want to know if he was listed as the father? Did he wonder why he didn't have to sign the birth certificate?

I think I could have possibly overlooked the writing since it's not a murder mystery. We know what happened when the first scene begins. First line in the movie, "Why did you do it?" Last line in the movie, "Why did you do it?" But the acting is SOOO bad and you gain zero information from the opening and closing scenes. The yellow makeup on the baby is so fake it looks ridiculous. Waste of time.

I've been looking forward to seeing this since it was first announced that it was a hoax. I smelled it when it first happened, I knew that the story Sherry Papini told was completely implausible. I don't ever expect Oscar level performances from TV movies, but Jamie King's performance was so awful, it was distracting. Josh Collins as Keith Papini was okay, but he overacted the "borderline abusive husband" role to such a degree that it ruined any sense of sympathy for him, when in reality, I felt that the real Keith was the true victim in this whole story. I thought the actress who played the investigator did a decent job, but otherwise, the only excuse I think of for how badly the movie was as a whole, was that it must have been directed by a seventh grader. Such a disappointment.