That night, Laura receives an emergency phone call from Anna. That's the cover, and also the entire storyline. An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Keep track of everything you watch tell your friends. A woman sets out to make life a living hell for her ex-husband's new fiancée. Laura runs over Anna with her car, killing her. Ellie tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus after a brief encounter with an old friend, David, only to find that David is more dangerous and unstable than she'd realized. Recuperating from trauma, Jennifer remains in danger as she returns to a life she doesn't remember. A married couple in their 40s, named John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) desperately want to have a baby, but they are unable to have a lasting pregnancy.
Michael Harding (Penn Badgely) returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend David (Dylan Walsh). Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Anna walks into his office door and tries to seduce him but his boss enters and John prompts Anna to leave. Anna later reveals her feelings to John and becomes outraged when he says he doesn't feel the same way. When the Bough Breaks could have offered some cheap thrills, but it ends up a neutered, paint-by-numbers snoozefest, not even worthy for cable syndication.John and Anna meet at the aquarium. If only someone had hit the gas on the script.
Let’s just cut straight to the part in the third-act climax where, after tussling about in John and Laura’s lake house (which they spoke about incessantly throughout the film, so no surprises there), Ashley stands, bleeding and vengeful, shotgun in hand, in front of John and Laura in a car, right in front of her: “I am sick and tired of this bitch!” Laura yells as she inevitably guns it. Let’s not even get into how Ashley ruins John’s ascent to partner at his law firm, or the aforementioned cat. She begins to have feelings for John, resentment for Laura, and maybe this thing is a scam after all when detective Roland ( The Wire’s Williams, looking bored beyond belief) uncovers Ashley’s past of sexual abuse, murder, and chicanery. He is dispatched posthaste, and Ashley is settled into the couple’s extravagant home in New Orleans. Of course, Ashley comes with a sleazy, abusive boyfriend Mike ( Sons of Anarchy’s Rossi, who is incapable of telegraphing anything other than trouble).
Successful lawyer John (Chestnut, exhibiting an acting range limited to three emotions: seductive, annoyed, and pissed off) and successful chef Laura (Hall) have been trying for years to have a baby to no avail, so when ideal surrogate Ashley (Sinclair) comes along, they jump at the chance to inject their last viable embryo into her. You think that house cat they keep cutting to is going make it through the movie? Oh, to be that cat. This latest iteration in the “psycho third wheel” genre offers up absolutely no surprises, and is probably one the most dull and predictable films in this wasteland filmgoers call September. I don’t know about you, but when I settle in for a nice big slice of the latest Fatal Attraction knockoff, it had better take things above and beyond the hundreds of Lifetime movies that have come before it.