It’s the kind of film where (minor spoilers. In short order, though, the manipulative Anna moves forward with her and Mike’s pre-planned scheme, which will combine greed, extortion and a kind of in-utero “hostage” situation fueled, as we will later learn, by a surrogate mother’s legal claim to ownership of the baby she’s carrying until she gives up that right. When the Bough Breaks is the worst kind of thriller one where seemingly smart people keep doing dumb things over and over and over.
includes any When the Bough Breaks actresses and all other actors from the film. Despite that and a few other early warning signs, the Taylors, especially the eager Laura, embrace Anna and the baby-making begins. When the Bough Breaks cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when. John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall) are an upscale New Orleans couple - he’s a hotshot lawyer, she’s a hotshot chef - whose inability to conceive a child together leads them to hire the attractive, young Anna (Jaz Sinclair) as a surrogate mother.īut Anna, sweet and humble though she first seems, has a questionable boyfriend, Mike (Theo Rossi), who gives John and Laura pause. Cross “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” with “Fatal Attraction,” then subtract some of those films’ visceral, iconic tension and you have something akin to “When the Bough Breaks,” a serviceable domestic thriller that’s not quite the well-oiled machine that it could be. When the Bough Breaks, where (spoiler alert) an advanced society can’t have children because of radiation caused by the power source for their advanced computer system that does everything.
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