Mommy's Little Star

If you approach this movie as a comedy, you might like it. Compared to other lifetime thrillers, the material is actually (kind of) original, plus there are lots of funny moments. One of the better LMNs I've seen!

I'm a big fan of Lifetime movies but this one missed the mark. Bad acting from a few of the characters. Thought the child actor was mis-cast. Kept waiting for the movie to be over.

Thought this was going to be good. Very disappointed. By far the worst acting ever seen. Lifetime usually has some great shows but they missed the mark on this one. I'm sure they could've found better actors. Just awful!

This movie was a bad one, and it was so fake. I'm on social media apps and whoever wrote this script must have been 99 or they could be young and don't know a lot about social media. Everything the kids they showed doing looked nothing like anything that would go viral. It was so phony I couldn't really pay attention to anything else. I would hate to think anyone who knows anything about social media regardless of age would think this looked realistic.

I agree with others. The dad, the nanny, and the best friend are the most likeable characters, but unfortunately, the movie doesn't revolve around them. The girl is a brat who needs structure and boundaries (that her dad gives her), the mom is into drugs and is clearly low key seduced by the money and fame that can be made off her daughter. I liked in the climax how the villain called her on it. He was pathetic too, but that was the realest moment.

Some parts of the movie were overly complicated. I didn't realize at first that the dad's business partner (?) and the jilted employee of the contest were two different people. Whatever the villain's name was, his being indebted for hundreds of thousands and relying on conning a mother and child for unpredictable social media success was silly.

The social media movies are quite cringe most of the time, so this movie had that working against it. The movie also didn't deal with how the mom's poor choices put her daughter (due to seeing $$$ and falling for the first guy in a long time) in danger.

It's a miss. 4 stars because I finished it.