Mommy's Little Star

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.

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.

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.

Basically it's 1 hour and 23 minutes of my life that I will never get back. I kept waiting for a climax to the movie but that never happened. The acting was horrible from almost all characters. There were a lot of things that must be left to the imagination because the writers completely left very important details out that should have been written in. I definitely would not recommend this unless it's something you have playing in the background as noise. I've seen better acting in home videos and stories based on truth have a much better plot. All in all it was a terrible film that I would not recommend to my worst enemy.

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!