The read
Audiences rate it 24 points higher than critics do. Most of the 7,025 2010s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.
Ratings
IMDb5.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes12%
Metacritic28/100
Audiences rate it 24 points higher than critics do.
440 audience votes
Key crew
- Jon CassarDirector
- Jack OlsenScreenplay
- John FrizzellOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Morris ChestnutJohn Taylor
- Regina HallLaura Taylor
- Jaz SinclairAnna Walsh
- Romany MalcoTodd Decker
- Michael Kenneth WilliamsRoland White
- Glenn MorshowerMartin Cooper
- Theo RossiMike Mitchell
- GiGi ErnetaDr. Grace Park
- Micheal K. DouglasParty Worker
- Christina BachClerk
- Justin LebrunActor
- Michelle DeVitoParty Planner
Stills
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Themes
husband wife relationshipobsessionmarried couplepregnancynew orleans, louisianasurrogate motherinheritancesoldieryoung womanchefdesirephysical abuse