Adopting Terror
The Lifetime network premiered Adopting Terror earlier this year, a movie which I did not watch since I find most of the channel’s content uninteresting. Asylum Home Entertainment made this movie and it was one of the several DVDs I have reviewed during this year and so they were nice enough to let me do an online screening through Fordela.
Tim and Cheryl Broadbent, what with Sean Astin and Samaire Armstrong in the lead roles adopt a baby girl named Mona. Just as they finally become a family, at Mona’s first birthday celebration, the birthday cake is still there when a strange woman arrives. The stranger is Mona’s father Kevin Anderson (Brendan Fehr) who was imprisoned, but recently released on a legal technicality.
While Cheryl is at a supermarket, Kevin starts to stalk her and when he leaves the supermarket, he is already at the Broadbent’s home. And even their friend’s place, all at once to cut grass. The authorities are somehow not capable of assisting them as none of the accusations filed against him can lead to his arrest. Fay Hopkins, the social worker (Monet Mazur), tries to offer them words of wisdom regarding the issues at hand, but no words would do the situation justice as Kevin wants his daughter back.
Depressed to see his family in danger, Tim, even after being told by Cheryl to rethink his decision, goes ahead and purchases a gun. His worries do not end there, since I am not the only one that wants to take Mona away from their family.
I understand why Adopting Terror was first released on Lifetime before going to DVD as it has the typical plot of most channel movies which are tagged “based on a true story”, but the movie is a little bit more edgy than most people are used to. Usually Asylum’s plots include ghosts, zombies, disasters, sharks, or mock busters, so it was a bit of a shock for me that the studio would put out a melodrama thriller with actors I recognize. The movie started off slow for me, but the realistic plot was good enough to sustain my interest.
A few of them come in the second half. I guess the plot twist related to the social worker was quite predictable, but I was not completely sure whether the writers were going to pursue that angle. With a respectable casting there should have been more than average acting. There are naturally a few plot holes which should be attributed to the hastily written script. For instance, what was the reason for parental express wishes to keep delaying the court date? And I conclude that the writers had a clue of what a baby thermometer is about.
The thing that bothers me is how crown got out from the trunk of a car and survived. Adopting Terror may not win any provisions but it is not as bad as one may think.
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