Mommy's Secret

Lifetime makes some very low budget movies...but really?.....it took 4 "writers" to bring this monstrosity to the screen......did Lifetime hire some grade school kids to write this thing? Actually attaching their names to this title speaks volumes of their obviously lack of talent, and probably means you will run into them in the soup line on any given day....talentless bums.....all or some probably have some production company or fancy themselves as teachers/instructors.....if you see their name as a teacher or production company.....RUN!!!!

Mind boggling that we have such movies being produced in 2016

As I write this I am laid up with a broken ankle. Otherwise I would have found something better to do. LOL The premise although a bit odd and unbelievable had potential. The dialogue was poorly written which probably hampered the mediocre actors.

The real reason I bothered with a review was the moms disguise, dressed up like a man while wearing full make up!?! Another reviewer pointed this out but I had to chime in.

I am tired of seeing women with eye shadow, false eyelashes, lipstick etc in situations that make absolutely no sense. I have even heard characters say I look terrible without make-up while the actor is clearly wearing make-up. Can we stop setting a 'standard' of beauty for women that makes no sense. A 'standard' of beauty that must be kept even when dressing up as a man! 😂

Mom goes to an ATM and the currency is shown as Rs ! What is that ? Just asking since I don't know. Unbelievable writing, very painful acting, sometimes stupid dialogues, terribly jarring background score. Robbing banks couldn't be easier. Every time she gets away , well not murdering ! A wooden stump would have acted better than the dumb mother and daughter. Daughter escapes from the den with her brother , but mobsters just give up. Usually in other movies mobsters go out with blazing guns. What happened to those thugs ? And that bouncer ! He simply let a woman go in and he was not to be seen doing anything when the sister runs out of the den with her brother. Overall badly done movie. Watch only if you feel lazy to search for a better movie. . !

Of course there were huge holes in this plot and the inept police and FBI who were responsible for arresting the real mobster were laughable. I found the soccer star daughter Denise (Sarah Grey) most irritating from the opening scene when she starts asking her mother Anne (Cahrisma Carpenter) a continuous stream of endless and curious questions about her mother's activities and receives double talk from Anne.

Mom and two (2) teenagers lost their father a year ago but they somehow are able to maintain a lifestyle in their multi million dollar estate home on mom's part time jobs of being a hair dresser and casserole maker.

Most irritating about this made for TV movie was the background dramataic soap operatic music score which had the reverse effect on me to maintain a level of suspense. Really? As bad as I am making this movie out to be, and the dialogue is near bearable it does have a few twists and turns and a happy ending so it is an okay time waster.