Ma fille dans les bras d'un tueur

No cookie-cutter acting here. The actors breathe real life into their roles and leave you with a convincing and believable thriller. Quality of Writing: Good strong story line with engaging characters and a believable plot. The mom is amazingly patient with her daughter when she stops listening to reason and surfs on her emotions instead. An early scene is sad, but thankfully there's a satisfactory closure to it later on. Scare Factor: The opening hook is scary as a man grabs a young woman and she screams. A man is physically and verbally threatening to women. David Fumero, who plays the villain, performs his role quite effectively; he leers, he whispers invasively--his mere presence is threatening. Content (sex, language & violence): No sex, though one scene shows a man's unbuttoned shirt; the daughter stays out late, so an intimate relationship is suggested. No language. Moderate violence in opening and ending scenes as well as a few scenes throughout. Values & Themes: Mom & Daughter relationship is solidly developed. If you are a mother, you will especially appreciate this dynamic and how very real their closeness and then later tension is. Themes: Looking out for a child's well-being, protecting the family, compassion for the loss of someone. One of the better Lifetime thrillers with a mom & daughter team you root for and an incredible twist that proves to be both logical and credible.

Some of these Lifetime movies are strangely compelling to me, despite the lack of acting star power, often times a good script and lack of accuracy when it comes to things like police investigations and the like, but "Dating to Kill" aka "Cradle Robber" is just plain bad.

There's little in the way of tension, and the big reveal - such as it was - left me incredibly underwhelmed.

The acting is well below Lifetime average. Sometimes the network strikes gold with these productions, but not here. This is the opposite of gold.

Not sure why I bothered to watch for more than an hour except that once I've started something, I want to finish it. But, man, it was a slog.

An 18 year old girl who is dating a 38 year old man and so disrespectful to her mother that it's hard to watch. No way an 18 year old should be talking to her mother the way the writers have this girl talking to her mother. Lifetime and LMN love these types of movies.

I get sick of these single mother man-hater movies. Bad dad bad boyfriend bad husband Bad bad bad. Here's this 18 year old daughter who is living under her roof and I am sure her mother is paying for her cell phone. As soon as the little Brat tells me that she's 18 years old and can live her life. I'm taking her cell phone and probably her vehicle away from her. And her 38 year old Boyfriend can support her. 2nd are they always make is when someone is missing there is no 72 or 48 hour time limit to report someone missing. I know this because I am a retired law enforcement officer and if someone wants a report for a person missing for 3 hours you have to take it. Just another boring unrealistic man-hater TV show. I'm sure it will end happily as usual.

The 1 Nagging question that doesn't technically get answered ... Who is Tess's Dad ? Anyone who can do basic addition can figure it out .. Mom lied, nobody saved her back in college .