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When the Bough Breaks

2016

Jon Cassar

Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Theo Rossi, Glenn Morshower ...

4.3

421

Horror. Thriller John and Laura Taylor desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna to be their surrogate - but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband.

	Author	Review
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"A lazily written and generically directed Fatal Attraction knockoff"	NEG
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"A serviceable domestic thriller that’s not quite the well-oiled machine that it could be (...) 'Bough' breaks little new or inspired ground"	NEU
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"There’s not an ounce of suspense in any of this, because you’ve seen it all before, and the director, Jon Cassar, seems uninterested in veering from the well-established formula"	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"The presence of a predominantly African-American cast arguably is the only distinguishing characteristic of this by-the-numbers thriller"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"'When the Bough Breaks' is a very conservative film that ducks any issues that might be dramatically interesting in order to work up lame suspense sequences"	NEG

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