![]() When a plot is as unintentionally laughable as that of When the Bough Breaks, down comes just about everything. MORE NEWS: Deaths Of Father, 2 Sons In Quakertown Christmas Fire Ruled AccidentalĪs for us, we’ll cradle 1 lonely little star out of 4. Ultimately, because there is no effective way for this tale to end, it just stops, picks up its playthings, and goes home.Īs for the actors, no one comes off well, but then, how could they with this impossible-to-make-work script? For their sakes, let’s hope this represents a low point for each of the performers. Rarely does a movie have so little internal logic, with movie characters who behave not like real people but like plastic constructs beamed down from another planet.Īnd the ridiculously arbitrary narrative, even by the expected exploitation standards of the genre, gets more preposterous as it goes along. The director, television veteran Jon Cassar ( Forsaken), works from a script by first-timer Jack Olsen that eschews nuance in character and behavior to a ludicrous and depressing degree. That’s sort of the story, but because the movie gives up on its shaky premise halfway home, two additional subplots are mixed in that don’t improve, explain, or make sense of anything. She does so and makes a play for Jon, who rejects her advances.īut as time passes on the way to delivery, the disturbed Anna develops and gives in to her fixation on John, threatening not just the happiness of this potential family but their very lives – as well as that of the unborn baby. Narrated and Executive Produced by Brooke Shields, this shocking film uncovers this public health issue which affects one in five new mothers after childbirth. READ MORE: Pennsylvania Reviewing 2,500 Historical Markers For Accuracy, Inappropriate References When The Bough Breaks is about postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. The movie is directed by Jon Cassar and will feature Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Theo Rossi and Jaz Sinclair as lead characters. When they find out that Anna is troubled by an abusive boyfriend, they invite her to move into their house and live with them. So they hire a beautiful young women named Anna, played by Jaz Sinclair, as their surrogate. They try just about everything and explore every possible option but nothing works. Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall are John and Laura Taylor, a successful professional couple – he’s a lawyer, she’s a chef - who are desperate to have a baby but are unable to conceive.
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