Aria Pullman plays twins in this very bizarre movie about an adopted daughter meeting her birth mother and finding out she has an evil twin! This movie has plenty of plot holes and a weak cast. Skip it, I wish we had.
6 Reviews
For a movie billed as a thriller, you are hardly thrilled!
Chartreuse110 July 2020
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Great Lifetime Thriller
kyleallencole96 August 2020
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I wasn't for sure at first if I was going to like this movie after seeing multiple films with a similar plot, but I did end up enjoying this one!
I thought it was well made and sort of suspenseful.
Tanya Clarke plays a woman who adopted a baby girl and when her daughter (Monica Rose Betz) turns 16, she decides she wants to reach out and meet her birth mother. She goes against her mothers wishes and privately uses a family tree site to locate her and begins to meet her behind her mothers back.
Actress Aria Pullman plays her birth mother in this one and it is revealed way to early on that she has an identical twin sister who is completely deranged.
Her murderous sister begins to impersonate her because she feels that the baby should of went to her instead of being given up for adoption and certainly will kill in order to keep her secret.
She then hatches a diabolical plan to murder her own sister and her nieces adoptive mother and take her niece and leave the country.
But you know how these movies all tend to end and this one definitely had a happy and inspirational ending.
One of the better ones to come out recently!
Confusing and disorganized needing second viewing
deedrala5 September 2020
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I had to watch the entire movie again to see where the evil twin or the good twin (the birth mother) came into it, since it was so confusing and not well done in that respect at all. The audience wasn't even let in on the fact that there was a set of twins in the story until later in the movie!
It was only natural to think that the first one the girl came into contact with was her birth mother, but after it became known that they were twins, I came to realize it was the evil twin for the first half of the movie. The real mother didn't come into it til way later, when the adoptive mother first called her. No wonder she acted so out of it and baffled, with a call like that out of the blue. During my first viewing of the disorganized mess, I thought the woman who answered the phone when the adoptive mother called was the same woman that the adopted girl had been seeing all along. What a MESS.
So since the audience wasn't even let in on the fact that there were twins in the story until halfway through the movie, I had to go back and watch most of it over again to discern which was which and who was who throughout the first hour. Too much work that the audience should not have to do.
And why did they dress alike most of the time when they shared scenes together? Twins stop doing that before they become teenagers. And why did the birth mother act so weird the night she stayed at the adoptive mother and girl's house - getting up late at night and leaving, only to end up sleeping the rest of the night in the chair on the front porch? Why not just stay in the nice comfortable bed and enjoy their company again the next morning?
And last but not least, what on earth did the title even mean - birth mother's betrayal? Who did she betray - her sister whom she had said could raise the baby then changed her mind when she and the baby's father decided she was too unhinged to raise a child?? Especially after the evil twin killed the baby's father?
Yet another dumb contrived lame convoluted Lifetime movie. Don't even waste your time.
3 out of 10 / Grade D
It was only natural to think that the first one the girl came into contact with was her birth mother, but after it became known that they were twins, I came to realize it was the evil twin for the first half of the movie. The real mother didn't come into it til way later, when the adoptive mother first called her. No wonder she acted so out of it and baffled, with a call like that out of the blue. During my first viewing of the disorganized mess, I thought the woman who answered the phone when the adoptive mother called was the same woman that the adopted girl had been seeing all along. What a MESS.
So since the audience wasn't even let in on the fact that there were twins in the story until halfway through the movie, I had to go back and watch most of it over again to discern which was which and who was who throughout the first hour. Too much work that the audience should not have to do.
And why did they dress alike most of the time when they shared scenes together? Twins stop doing that before they become teenagers. And why did the birth mother act so weird the night she stayed at the adoptive mother and girl's house - getting up late at night and leaving, only to end up sleeping the rest of the night in the chair on the front porch? Why not just stay in the nice comfortable bed and enjoy their company again the next morning?
And last but not least, what on earth did the title even mean - birth mother's betrayal? Who did she betray - her sister whom she had said could raise the baby then changed her mind when she and the baby's father decided she was too unhinged to raise a child?? Especially after the evil twin killed the baby's father?
Yet another dumb contrived lame convoluted Lifetime movie. Don't even waste your time.
3 out of 10 / Grade D
another far-fetched plot
haroot_azarian27 June 2021
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OK I am not really going to talk about this typical cliche adopted kid LMN plot line. Suffice to say as usual it yet again another friend who talks her into doing something mischievous! What shocked me was seeing Aria Pullman put so much weight on from her last movie Deadly Inn (2018) which was only made 2 years before this one! I mean her wearing baggy clothes did not really hide it. Her face is totally different than in Deadly Inn.
The old switheroo
hoops-5343629 March 2022
Really puzzling...the old switcheroo on the front porch. Not much explanation, until later.
Bright spot in the film is Monica Rose Betz. We have seen her in "Beware of Mom," "Cheer Camp Killer," and now "Birthmother's Betrayal." She is wonderful and hopefully we will see much more of her in the future!
Bright spot in the film is Monica Rose Betz. We have seen her in "Beware of Mom," "Cheer Camp Killer," and now "Birthmother's Betrayal." She is wonderful and hopefully we will see much more of her in the future!
Amazing Grace and Amy
lavatch31 December 2021
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"Birthmother's Betrayal" was heading towards a routine thriller until the introduction of a twin. Then, the film turned into a crackling good yarn around the theme of "double, your pleasure, double your fun."
When Grace Culver gave up her baby girl Tara for adoption, there were circumstances surrounding the "safety" of the child that were never fully revealed to the adoptive parent, Amy Bennett.
Fast forward sixteen years to the time when the teenager Tara defies her mother and attempts to make contact with her birth mother. The dynamic twist of the film is that young Tara contacted Grace's twin at an online ancestry site. But the woman she first met was not her biological mom; instead, the naive Tara was starting a toxic relationship with her deranged Aunt Katrina.
There is some collateral damage for Katrina, who is willing to stop at nothing to possess Tara. It is revealed that she murdered Tara's biological father, Peter Shepherd. She subsequently kills Rachelle, her former "sister" in prison when Rachelle sought remuneration for helping to spring Katrina out of the pokey. Then, Katrina murders Colleen, the nice woman at the adoption agency, who was about to give Tara's file to Amy.
After Katrina is identified as the twin, the pace of the film picks up. The actress playing Grace/Katrina did an excellent job with differentiation of the two characters.
But the film really belongs to Amy Bennett, the devoted mother who is steadfastly committed to preserving the well-being of her daughter. Grace may be amazing in her kindness. But it is Amy who is the role model of a loving parent and the truly memorable character in the film.
When Grace Culver gave up her baby girl Tara for adoption, there were circumstances surrounding the "safety" of the child that were never fully revealed to the adoptive parent, Amy Bennett.
Fast forward sixteen years to the time when the teenager Tara defies her mother and attempts to make contact with her birth mother. The dynamic twist of the film is that young Tara contacted Grace's twin at an online ancestry site. But the woman she first met was not her biological mom; instead, the naive Tara was starting a toxic relationship with her deranged Aunt Katrina.
There is some collateral damage for Katrina, who is willing to stop at nothing to possess Tara. It is revealed that she murdered Tara's biological father, Peter Shepherd. She subsequently kills Rachelle, her former "sister" in prison when Rachelle sought remuneration for helping to spring Katrina out of the pokey. Then, Katrina murders Colleen, the nice woman at the adoption agency, who was about to give Tara's file to Amy.
After Katrina is identified as the twin, the pace of the film picks up. The actress playing Grace/Katrina did an excellent job with differentiation of the two characters.
But the film really belongs to Amy Bennett, the devoted mother who is steadfastly committed to preserving the well-being of her daughter. Grace may be amazing in her kindness. But it is Amy who is the role model of a loving parent and the truly memorable character in the film.
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