A Stranger's Child

A Strangers Child (2024)

Donna Fendyr (Jessica Lowndes, the newer version of 90210) wakes up in the hospital after a deadly car crash with amnesia, her husband Scott (Justin Lacey) dead and a baby named Cleo. Her brother Mason (Brad Harder) is helping her to adjust, but could she have kidnapped the child of Leon (Clayton James) and Amira (Zibby Allen)? Or is something even weirder happening? This movie boasts a great villain in Leon, who switches back and forth from someone who seems to be looking for answers, just like Donna, to someone using her to kill his unfaithful wife. Directed by Monika Mitchell and writer Helen Marsh also worked on Deadly Midwife and Deadly Invitations together. Here, they pretty much take a mystery - even to its lead - and make her wonder if the child belongs to her husband, making her deal with not just her grief but now anger that he was cheating on her. So yes, some of this, you can see coming. Other parts of it surprised me. It's very Lifetime - Tubi feels like the streaming heir to that network, even as I pay for the Lifetime Movie digital channel - but has that ever been something I didn't want to watch? Lowndes is also quite good as the heroine. The end of this movie, however, is ridiculous and makes me like it even more. We end up at a party at Donna's house, the real parents of Cleo have been revealed and everyone is happy. Donna is excited because a man has agreed to fix her car in exchange for dating her and she opens the door to a POV shot, making us the man she has gotten to go along with this deal. Huh?