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Bree Williamson and Peter DaCunha in Mommy's Little Boy (2017)

Title should have been "Mommy's Little Psycho" - Very Unpleasant

Christine Conradt, mistress of Lifetime's ambiguous characters

Saw this LMN movie recently and was actually shocked at the amount of violence and inhumanity that was portrayed. Note: 1. Sadistic older brother brutally tormenting the younger one. 2. Tormented younger brother letting the older brother die in swimming pool. 3. Negligent (actually disgusting and sadistic) mother tormenting surviving son. 4. Kindly neighbor disgustingly killed by mother, and then having the son help cover it up. 5. Mother&#39;s creepy boyfriend wanting to spank the son&#39;s bare bottom. WHAT? 6. Surviving son killing the creepy boyfriend. 7. Mother making son help dumping creepy boyfriend&#39;s body. This is a LMN movie?

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Mommy's Little Boy

Lifetime showed two &quot;premiere&quot; movies March 18, of which the first was &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Boy,&quot; a clear follow-up to the 2016 production they had re-run just before it, &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Girl.&quot; Created by the same people — Lifetime&#39;s ace writer, Christine Conradt (she had help from Mark Sanderson on the script for &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Girl&quot; but wrote &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Boy&quot; solo), and her frequent directorial collaborator, Curtis James Crawford, &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Boy&quot; wasn&#39;t a ripoff of &quot;The Bad Seed&quot; the way &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Girl&quot; was. It was promoted on the Lifetime Web site by a 29-second trailer that showed Mommy&#39;s little boy, Eric Wilson (Peter DaCunha), out with her in the dead of night helping her bury a tarp-wrapped body, which made it looked like mommy Briana Wilson (Bree Williamson) was knocking people off and enlisting sonny-boy&#39;s help as an accessory after the fact. The truth, when we finally get to see the movie start to finish, is more complex and more morally ambiguous than that — moral ambiguity is the biggest thing that separates Conradt&#39;s scripts from those by the rest of Lifetime&#39;s writers. When we first meet Eric he&#39;s being all too blatantly bullied by his older half-brother Max (Auden Larratt). Briana spends most of her time drinking — sometimes at sleazy bars, in one of which she meets a boyfriend de jour named Shane Reed (Sebastian Pigott) who figures prominently in the later action, but mostly at home, straight from a bottle of liquor which, since the fluid is clear, we assume is either vodka or gin. During one afternoon she&#39;s lying next to their backyard swimming pool, laying in a chaise longue, listening to music via ear buds and doing the best she can to drown out the sounds of her sons as they horseplay in the pool. Somehow Max falls to the bottom of the pool, a wound opens up and he dies — director Crawford keeps it uncertain whether Eric deliberately killed him, whether he was fighting back against Max&#39;s bullying and just pushed too hard, or Max had an accident and Eric&#39;s only culpability was that he didn&#39;t bother to tell mom until it was too late because he knew he would be better off with his brother dead than alive. Nonetheless, mom convinces Eric that he&#39;s a murderer and he&#39;s going to have to do exactly what she says or else he&#39;s going to end up in prison. The Wilsons have a nosy neighbor who lives across the street, Barbara Nolan (Brigitte Robinson), who notices that the Wilson boys aren&#39;t eating especially well, so she brings over dinner and mom overreacts hysterically to the idea that she needs some interloper to help her feed her kids. So she clongs Barbara on the head with a frying pan, knocking her unconscious and leaving Eric alone with the body. Eric notices that Barbara is still alive and is about to reach for the phone to call 911 when mom comes back into the room. Eric tells her, &quot;She&#39;s not dead,&quot; and mom&#39;s response is to keep hitting Barbara over the head with the pan until she really is most sincerely dead. Then mom concocts the plot for concealing her crime into which she enlists Eric and which involves the scene we saw in the trailer: mom buries Barbara&#39;s body in the local Kern Campgrounds (the film supposedly takes place in Philadelphia but the settings look more suburban to me) and abandons Barbara&#39;s car and purse, hoping that either or both will get stolen, the police will find them and, if Barbara&#39;s body is ever discovered, the cops will blame her murder on whoever stole her car and/or purse. Only it doesn&#39;t work that way because nobody goes near the car, and when she isn&#39;t doing bouncy-bouncy with Shane or getting plastered, she&#39;s noting the news reports as the cops find first the car and then Barbara herself. Meanwhile, Eric has managed to escape from mom&#39;s bizarre clutches into one of the local parks, where he runs into a girl his age named Kaylee Davis (Jadyn Malone) and her parents, local schoolteacher and coach Michael Davis (Paul Popowich, one of those rare males in a Lifetime movie who&#39;s both hot and sexy and actually gets to play a good guy!) and his wife Sherry (Natalie Lisinska). We immediately get the impression that the Davises would make far better parents for Eric than his mother would, not only because there are two of them but because they&#39;re strong, loving, supportive and have better things to do with their lives than drink themselves into oblivion. As melodramatic as it sometimes is, and as clear that Conradt has been doing these for so long (her first Lifetime script, &quot;The Perfect Nanny,&quot; was made in 2000) she&#39;s got the clichés down pat and knows what her audiences expect, she also manages to make her characters believable as flesh-and-blood people with flaws as well as good points. We basically like and root for Eric but he does leave his brother in the pool to die, and later he shoots someone whose only crime was wanting to discipline him; and Briana comes off as a figure of real pathos even though we generally loathe her; we basically like the nosy neighbor Briana offs early on but could see how her constant butting in to the Wilsons&#39; lives could become a real trial; and Shane comes off as a no-account pleasure-seeker but also a proud and independent man who&#39;s just in over his head with this woman and her troubled son. The Davis family are the only members of the dramatis personae of Mommy&#39;s Little Boy who really are too good to be true; otherwise the characterizations are intriguing and make this something more than just your standard-issue Lifetime movie with a provocative title and premise.

It is a great relief to know that &quot;Mommy&#39;s Little Boy&quot; was not a film based on a true story. This harrowing melodrama surely has one of the most despicable mother characters ever to grace a Lifetime movie. She makes Mommie Dearest seem angelic. Brianna was a negligent mom who was drinking heavily by the pool when her young son Max hit his head on a dive and drowned. Her other little boy, Eric, is the focus of the film. Brianna was clearly a negligent mom prior to the tragedy. But she is the mom out of hell after his death. Fortunately for young Eric, a kind softball coach at his school takes him under his wing and becomes the father figure Eric never had. Meanwhile, the conduct of the mother becomes more and more reckless and abusive. She murders a kind neighbor who brings over tacos, then enlists her young son in disposing of the body. Later in the film, another murder is committed, and once again, the mother asks Eric for assistance in the heavy lifting. The best line of the film is delivered by Brianna, when she stands over the corpse and tells her son, &quot;You know the drill!&quot; The film&#39;s excessive violence was mitigated by the scenes of the kind coach and his wife, who provide warmth and kindness to Eric. We see Eric lighten up around the coach and his family. The film dramatically illustrates the importance of the decency of at least one adult to serve as a guide for any child.

OK it is patently obvious that the ratings and comments here are totally fake! Probably posted by the production team of this crapiola! I will not even waste my time critiquing this garbage! Suffice to say do not waste 90 minutes of your lives watching it! I whizzed through it in five minutes thanks to my remote control!

Suffice to say, this gripping tale of a mummy who doesn&#39;t raise her son very well. She kills people you know. Spoiler alert. Young Eric at 10 years old, has found the perfect family. They&#39;re going to adopt him, whether they like it or not!

This is unbelievably bad :D I can&#39;t stop laughing. It&#39;s ridiculous. There was even a random woman in it that sounds like Tommy Wiseau - I&#39;ve never heard that accent anywhere else. The acting is on par with The Room, but without the &quot;charm&quot;. The dialogue is absolutely unbelievable, the acting is dire and the storyline makes next to no sense. I&#39;m still not sure which kid is supposed to be adopted and which is the main character&#39;s son. Anyway, one of them dies right at the beginning and there&#39;s a scene where the mom has the son that still alive at the graveside. &quot;Say hi to you brother... Well, tell him about your day and stuff,&quot; she snaps in a bizarre way even an abusive mother wouldn&#39;t. I have no idea what the people leaving good reviews were smoking, but it&#39;s clearly brain rot. Just don&#39;t. It&#39;s not even so bad it&#39;s good.

Intense story for a Lifetime thriller. The acting is better than it needs to be for a TV movie. Bree Williamson the actress who plays the mother is quite scary and her lines are are quite authentic sounding - really like a crazy person who goes out of control. Things start with a rather distressing home pool drowning of the older son who is a bully. As a kind neighbor and a caring football coach try to help things start to get out of hand. Quite a role for the young boy. Wonder how he could ever recover. Worth a watch.

Some mommy. The sort of mother that should be investigated and dealt with at Child Protective Services. Her older son continuously torments his stepbrother and much to the amazement of the film, the evil son dies quickly when he hits his head at the bottom of a pool after diving in. The younger one cannot show remorse and a case could be made that he did nothing when the accident occurred. The alcoholic mother, living off her dead parents assets and money from a lawsuit from a fall, is one miserable person. She favored the dead son and when a kindly neighbor tries to intervene, she kills her and tells the boy that he can go to jail for this crime as well. Mommy has a new boyfriend, a fellow drunk and the two plot to flee to Mexico. When the latter takes a strap to the boy, our youngster blasts him in the chest with the gun he found and mommy and the boy are dumping another body. Along the way, there is the usual dedicated teacher and coach who knows that something is amiss and he forges a strong bond with the child. Interesting to watch. The performances are good. Child protection services working directly with the police?

Any movie featuring the highly talented and much admired cheesy thespian Bree Williamson is usually a guarantee of &#39;Box Office Gold&#39; and this deeply disturbing and deadly drama merely cements her position as a thespian of great esteem. She plays the part of a deeply deranged mother who tragically loses one of her sons after banging his bonce in their swimming pool. Thereafter, she murders her well-meaning neighbour (played with great gusto by Brigitte Robinson) and other much murderous mayhem ensues as it becomes apparent that she isn&#39;t &#39;the full shilling&#39;. I won&#39;t regurgitate the plot, as other less discerning reviewers have done so, so as not to spoil your viewing pleasure of what is a ceulloid masterpiece but needless to say, the gripping storyline keeps the movie-going public transfixed and entertained until the final credits roll. Besides Ms Williamson, all the actors perform at the top of their game but especial mention should be made of Auden Larratt who didn&#39;t really have the time on screen to showcase his undoubted talents before bouncing his bonce on the bottom of his swimming pool. He has a fine future on the silver screen judging by his performance in this epic. Peter DaCunha is a revelation as Eric.... He must surely be destined for greatness. Overall, this magnificent movie should act as a warning to young children the world over to avoid diving headfirst into the shallow ends of swimming pools and for kindly, well-meaning neighbours to beware of seriously un-hinged neighbours who have cheesy sounding Christian names and wield heavy frying pans. Hopefully a much anticipated sequel is in the offing and a suitable title for it could be &#39;Mommy&#39;s Little Boy&#39; Part 2. A roller-coaster of a ride!

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Mommy's Little Boy

Title should have been "Mommy's Little Psycho" - Very Unpleasant

Christine Conradt, mistress of Lifetime's ambiguous characters

Tawdry and Harrowing Melodrama

What a load of rubbish!

Bone Chilling

Hahahahaha

Scary Mom

***1/2

Deeply Disturbing Deadly Drama!

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