My Mother's Secret (2012)

hyped garbage

From my favorite movies..

A lot of fun.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Well this was pretty bad; cheesy, stilled dialogue, overdone background music, bad decisions and just all-round kinda dull.Truthfully I only turned this on because I saw Yannick Bisson's name attached and well...Murdock Mysteries. He plays a secondary character here, the nice guy (as per) DA husband of the main character. In the opening scenes we learn his wife is pregnant and then discovers she was adopted. 'Lori' spends about 2 minutes searching for her birth mother and once reunited begins to uncover a mystery surrounding why her mom gave her up for adoption, why her father is in jail for murder and who killed her grandfather.The story itself was okay I guess, there is some mystery here especially in the beginning as you also follow some bearded dude in jail. The birth mother was a weird character; weak frightened, she just seemed crazy, as was everyone else in the small town Lori travels to.I will say that the bad guy gave me some (unintentional) laughs. Completely over-the-top and clichéd as he covers his tracks and threatens people. For the most part this was just a waste of time. 5/17/15

The protagonist investigates a crime that hits all too close to home-- and in so doing, becomes all too aware of her newfound isolation amid the world she now enters. Those who can help are either separated from her from a distance, or are in over their head, themselves--being threatened, manipulated, or worse.Such are ingredients of many a good film noir. And such are the ingredients of "My Mother's Secret".Nicole deBoer is brilliant, as always, as the heroine of the story--a mother-to-be turned amateur detective, who seeks to answer the question, "Who am I--really?" Is she the daughter of a murder/rapist--the product of a twisted, tragic act? Or...has her father been framed for a crime he didn't commit--by what seems like the entire town?Let me address the first issue I have: The first twenty minutes or so feel pretty rushed--to put it mildly. BANG--she reveals to her husband she's pregnant. BANG--her "mother" reveals she was adopted. BANG--she goes to the town where her real mother lives.After a bit, though, the storyline "settles", and we have a good, tense, well-plotted woman's thriller. The characterization is good--the cast is well put together, with (as I said) an excellent lead in Miss deBoer. Her character's husband is good, too, passable as a smart and caring, yet reasonably tough, assistant DA. The tension builds, as her character uncovers layer after layer of corruption and cover-up. Still, she has yet to realize the depths of the danger she has put herself--and her child--into....Still, aside from the beginning, the film is not without its faults. As typical for many TV-movies, the music is a little TOO pervasive, at times. The "nightmare" sequence is frankly clichéd, and cringe-worthy. Also, the climax doesn't feel as satisfying as it could have been. The problem, to be honest, is that Nicole's character basically takes a back seat, standing back and watching as events come to their conclusion. In a good plot, the protagonist MUST have an active roll in the climax, not just watch and act shocked.Aside from that--and what I feel is a bit of a "rushed" epilogue--it is a very enjoyable film. It may sound redundant to praise Miss deBoer's acting again--but I must, as she carries the film beautifully, in spite of its flaws. Watching this makes me more than a little regretful that she hasn't been cast in anything major since Deep Space Nine or The Dead Zone.

I thought this movie was fantastic and it kept you on your toes wondering how the Sheriff had such a hold on Evelyn and Jonas.It showed just how the Sheriff brainwashed them in thinking that Jonas could go to jail for something he did in defending his Sister from being killed by their Father.The Sheriff was greedy and just was thinking of his pocketbook and couldn't care less about anybody and didn't care who he killed to keep it.When Jonas was told by the Sheriff to take care of Lauren, he really didn't want to do it and was thinking about what to do. The only problem I had at the end of this movie was they didn't show what happened to Jonas after everything was cleared.

A teacher married to a lawyer announces that she is pregnant and is then told by her mother that she is adopted!In discovering her birth mother, she and the rest of us are in for quite a ride dealing with blackmail, murder, framing someone else for murder for 35 years and just pure excitement in this nicely paced thriller.How nice that our teacher is married to an Assistant D.A. and that she can take time off for some sleuthing on her own.What a mess she uncovers when her real father was jailed for life for murdering her real grandfather. Her real mother, named Evelyn Wells, has been drugged for years by her brother. You should be able to ascertain who the real killer is here.