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Looking to watch a movie for a bit of entertainment and stumbled across this one.

Same old made for TV movie.

Predictable characters and fair acting.

The mother in the movie didn't seem that upset that her daughter was missing. I would have been frantic.

The suspect seemed obvious about half way through the movie.

Can't say that we really enjoyed it.

It was a way to pass some time but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

The so called mother and daughter in the movie seemed a little too close in age for it to be believable.

Could have been thought out a bit better than it was .

This is an above average LMN movie, but has a storyline that is really very similar to another LMN movie "Into the Arms of Danger".

Similarities:

1. Young woman ready to go college goes missing just before staring school.

2. Mother (parents) frantically search for her and go through all sorts of hurdles.

3. Police are of no help whatsoever (at first), and then they catch on.

Unique Points:

1. The Santa Claus-looking character that is an established "heavy" (where are his elves?)

2. The true perpetrators - some solid-gold screwballs that I did not expect.

If you saw "Into the Arms of Danger" and enjoyed it, you'll probably enjoy this.

It looks like the LMN group has a template that they reference when they make a move - this one is the girl ready to go to college goes missing and her parents try to find her.

6/10.

The mother and daughter looked like sisters It wasn't realistic. In the beginning I was confused. And where is the child's father? I may have missed that

I would've been on the phone with the FBI or gone to the media. I would not have gotten a motel room just to wait. The mom was working with an Andy Griffith sheriff that didn't believe her. And really....why would he? I don't think the mom ever cried. Or showed she was scared out of her mind.

LMN surprised me. The mom didn't actually manhunt the killer or break into a home, end up running through the woods (although there's a woods scene) Or end up at a lake house.

OK, we don't expect afternoon movies to be good and this one didn't disappoint.

Stopping at a dilapidated petrol station in the middle of nowhere is never a good idea in this type of film, particularly when it's staffed by creepy guys straight from Zombie Central Casting.

Have the almost identical mother & daughter (apparently the actors are only a few years apart in age) not watched the right films?

The mother's behaviour over her daughter's unexplained disappearance is strange: waking up in hospital, "Where's my daughter?" Is not the first but the last question she asks before roaming empty corridors opening random doors.

(Stranger still that she's not asked for her credit card or health insurance to settle the bill before wandering off)

Local sheriff instantly dismisses everything she says, totally uninterested in her story.

In fairness, as the townsfolk all seem to be barking mad, maybe a stranger in town reporting a mysterious vanishing daughter is just one more item to be crossed off his to-do list.

Don't waste your time on this one.

Formula plot with unrealistic scenarios. Average to below average acting with no likeable characters. The mother (Rhonda Dent) is actually only 3yrs older than her supposed 18yr old daughter (Kristina Paras) and it showed.

Totally unrealistic scenes such as the mother being allowed to wander all over an active murder scene stepping around the forensics team and handling everything in sight as she wanted to call by and feed the victim's cat!

For someone who was so bonded and obsessed with her daughter, it took her an unnaturally long time to enquire after her daughter's welfare when she (the mother) finally gained consciousness in hospital.

Laughable ending.

Can't understand the high ratings.