The Boarder

Be glad you didn't hire the add on wannabe actors. I would like to add names but they don't need the recognition and I am glad I didn't try and act as a fill in. I would be ashamed to add my name to the list with the not really a Nebraskan ( washed up ) so called fame trouble makers.

Terrible script. Terrible acting. Ridiculous, unbelievably-perfect, host family. The story could have made a good movie, if it were made by a completely different cast/crew. Don't be fooled by anyone rating this anything above a 3 max.

Some of the <5 reviews are unfair. I think the intent of this movie is to give a realistic look into a case scenario adopting a child diagnosed with RAD. The movie succeeds in that regard by showing the charm, anger, behavior, triangulation, and stress that a family may go through.

But OMG I didn't make it past the first 15 minutes. The acting is worse than anything I've ever seen, the glorified color (literally, the visual appearance of the obvious digital enhancement) making the scenes sickeningly sweet is unbearable. I thought the topic might be good but wasn't able to even get there.

Okay, not sure about anybody else but in my view, the only thing worse than the acting in this, um, movie is the "Christian" aspect, dropped like verbal bombs in every few sentences in the first few sickeningly sweet minutes. We get it, a perfect family - you don't have to be Christian for that. Honestly, I'm bailing before 10 minutes, the acting and over- enhanced digital color are making me nauseous. This topic interests me, thought I might learn some things but can't even get there due to the d grade, TV-movie-of-the-week production. Maybe the Christian budget couldn't swing it, ha ha, given the billion dollar industry that it is...