When it comes to having a baby, a surrogate mother is the last option for John (Morris Chestnut) and Laura Taylor (Regina Hall). After exhausting all of their embryos without luck, the well-off couple turn to Anna (Jaz Sinclair), a young waitress who just wants to help couples achieve their dream.
Clearly the Taylors have never watched any movies about surrogates, or they might’ve shown a little more hesitation or been a tad bit more cautious once they noticed things starting to go awry.
The perfect picture of sweet Anna cracks when the Taylors meet her unstable boyfriend and things go downhill from there. The Taylors realize she is not safe at home and ask her to move in with them, then pamper her like their new 16 year-old daughter with a brand new car.
Laura is a high-profile chef, who frequently spends her time out of town on business trips. John is a powerful lawyer, spending day in and day out at his office, and even more so when Laura is away.
So, Laura is away on business a lot, Anna is staying in their house and John is either at home or his office... I think you can see where this is going.
The ending of this movie leaves something to be desired and keeps you guessing, but not in a good way. It was not made clear whether or not there would be a sequel, but given the abrupt, vague ending, I hope there is. I think that we all need a little closure after that sequence of events.
As far as movies of this sort go where a surrogate mother terrorizes an innocent couple because she realizes her power, “When the Bough Breaks” does not stray from the norm.
In fact, I may have watched this exact movie with different actors on the Lifetime Movie Channel. Everything was extremely predictable, and if you were not able to guess the entire plot from the trailer, you would from the first ten minutes of the movie.
However, it is still a thriller, so even though I knew what was coming, I did jump several times within the movie. And I am nothing if not a sucker for a thriller. So, even though it was predictable, I would recommend seeing “When the Bough Breaks” to see exactly how the story unfolds and get your adrenaline pumping.
Rating: 3 out of 5
