A Mother on the Edge

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!

At first I'm thinking this could be a decent cerebral thriller, sort of like the Netflix movie "Fractured". Boy was I wrong. This was way too implausible, not to mention violent.

I was utterly confused the whole way through. You mean to tell me that this multi millionaire paid off the teacher, nanny, psychiatrist, ex-husband, the police, forged a death certificate, bought a burial plot, and somehow deleted the kid's school record and photo history on the mom's phone? Give me a break. And there was no other human who could vouch for the fact that the daughter is alive? How about ask the school for surveillance footage of her daughter's drop off?

At first you feel sympathy for the main character, but that goes down the drain once she clobbers everyone in her path.

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.

What ridiculously dumb movie! You want to keep watching just to see how stupid it can be! Thank goodness for the fast forward button.

It's an ok movie, but I started getting annoyed when the mother kept going crazy, screaming, looking crazy, and kept losing her temper.