Laura has miscarried three times, and they have had trouble in their marriage. Chestnut’s John is a high-powered attorney and Hall’s Laura is a high-end chef, and they live in a well-appointed house that isn’t too far from being a mansion. The gimmick in “When the Bough Breaks” is that the family unit is actually a couple (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) who want to conceive a child. This melodrama leans heavily on TV-movie tropes but it is also clearly indebted to “Fatal Attraction” - yes, 30 years later, we’re still getting curly-headed, knife-wielding female psychopaths who go after a family unit and even (spoiler alert) their pets. “When the Bough Breaks” is so much a Lifetime original movie for the big screen that it seems odd that there are no commercial breaks during all of the plot twists.
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