Big Lies in a Small Town

The mother and daughter looked like sisters It wasn't realistic. In the beginning I was confused. And where is the child's father? I may have missed that

I would've been on the phone with the FBI or gone to the media. I would not have gotten a motel room just to wait. The mom was working with an Andy Griffith sheriff that didn't believe her. And really....why would he? I don't think the mom ever cried. Or showed she was scared out of her mind.

LMN surprised me. The mom didn't actually manhunt the killer or break into a home, end up running through the woods (although there's a woods scene) Or end up at a lake house.

A young couple stops at a gas station and the woman gets taken. Rachel Baker (Rhonda Dent) and her daughter Hannah are driving through the same town. A car runs them down and crashes into them. Rachel wakes up in a hospital outside of town. Hannah is nowhere to be found. Rachel goes back to search for her. The Sheriff is less than helpful.

The town needs to look scarier. The TV production lets the movie down. The town should probably be smaller and poorer. At some point, she would go to the FBI or anybody from the outside. At least, she should call the number for the other missing girl. Right from the start, the movie is not making sense. Rachel would never be allowed to live after the car crash. This is weak even for Lifetime.

A must-see smash hit movie very much an audience pleaser which is well worth seeing and not to be missed its emotionally strong and truly great piece of filmmaking with an impressive debut of very moving portrayal of the charactors I definitely recommend this film to everybody.

This is an above average LMN movie, but has a storyline that is really very similar to another LMN movie "Into the Arms of Danger".

Similarities:

1. Young woman ready to go college goes missing just before staring school.

2. Mother (parents) frantically search for her and go through all sorts of hurdles.

3. Police are of no help whatsoever (at first), and then they catch on.

Unique Points:

1. The Santa Claus-looking character that is an established "heavy" (where are his elves?)

2. The true perpetrators - some solid-gold screwballs that I did not expect.

If you saw "Into the Arms of Danger" and enjoyed it, you'll probably enjoy this.

It looks like the LMN group has a template that they reference when they make a move - this one is the girl ready to go to college goes missing and her parents try to find her.

6/10.

Formula plot with unrealistic scenarios. Average to below average acting with no likeable characters. The mother (Rhonda Dent) is actually only 3yrs older than her supposed 18yr old daughter (Kristina Paras) and it showed.

Totally unrealistic scenes such as the mother being allowed to wander all over an active murder scene stepping around the forensics team and handling everything in sight as she wanted to call by and feed the victim's cat!

For someone who was so bonded and obsessed with her daughter, it took her an unnaturally long time to enquire after her daughter's welfare when she (the mother) finally gained consciousness in hospital.

Laughable ending.

Can't understand the high ratings.