Dying for a Daughter

On a mountain road in the dead of night mother Samantha (Melanie Nelson) and her 10-year-old daughter Cassie (Scarlett Roselynn) are involved in a car accident. It runs off the road and Sam is relatively unscathed but Cassie is badly injured and ends up needing a wheelchair. While at a hospital undergoing a large blood transfusion, the hospital staff learn that Cassie was adopted, which causes a nurse named Margaret Smith (Brittany Underwood) to get the job of live-in nurse to take care of Cassie after she's released from the hospital. She does this by impersonating Rachel, another nurse from her agency, and of course she's up to no good.

What occurs after this is typical Hallmark thriller. A psycho nurse nurses someone's child, plans to take over, become the mother and get the husband. It's a well worn idea/plot which efficiently acted, however what lifts this up from average is Brittany Underwood's performance. She's beautiful, yet deadly and conveys this so well.

Refreshing change to see star Brittany Underwood playing the baddie. Unfortunately, even her acting chops can't rescue this movie from terrible acting and a bad script. The best part was the ending scene and even that was overacted. Keep on trying, Lifetime! One of these days, you'll get it right!

Simply the worst. Horrible acting start to finish if I wasn't so Covid trapped and bored would never have bothered to finish watching.

Karina Segura was great! Her acting was believable. Hope to see more of her in thriller movies!

It's basically watching a soap opera with a start and end to one entire "dramatic" story.

The overbearing and constant score was very annoying. Zero music was needed in more than half of the entire scores runtime.

The acting for the most part was sub par - unconvincing and/or over exaggerated, but I'm sure that's mostly well-seasoned TV writer and director Fred Olen Ray's failure to direct his scenes and cast properly.

His directing in this one felt very amateurish, that the entire film seemed like an independent low budget amateur filmmaker's production. It felt very phony and unconvincing. The story has been done many times before, and much better, so not sure why we needed a "soap opera" version, that was predictable start to end.

Pacing and runtime were decent. If you have nothing better to watch, I guess this one is OK. It's a generous 6/10 from me