Il crudele volto dell'inganno

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.

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.

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

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

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.