Cradle Swapping (2017) Reviews

• Started out interesting ...

  bufordbox2018-12-01

  .....but became stupid and stupider as it went along. The couple's decision to do the sleuthing on their own without benefit of police and FBI had no reasonable rationale. And then the newly adoptive mother just hands the baby over on a handshake deal, no talking it over with hubby, no legal proceeding , just "here, take her ....no problem I paid 100,000 dollars to adopt her". Just stupid, stupid, stupid ...prepare to have your intelligence lowered.

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• ***1/2

  edwagreen2017-09-24

  A tale of baby swapping at a California hospital brings us to illegal adoption agencies, murder, heartbreak and a Nick and Nora Charles like characters. Our nice husband,a young Andrew Cuomo look-like, shows how he can turn on his wife when it's believed that drugs that she was taking prior to her pregnancy, brought about a sick child. We have the doting grandmother who insists that the girl doesn't look like her side of the family. When our wonderful mother feels that something is wrong, foot prints and other tests, reveal that their child is not theirs and hospital footage shows swapping taking place, where a drug addicted woman gave birth to a child at the same time and her wicked boyfriend made the change, since the adoption agency that he is planning to sell the child to will not take ailing children. The film does take a turn when our victimized couple play Nick and Nora and their sleuthing pays off. The scene with the adopted mother is most poignant, especially when she realizes that the couple is telling the truth.

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• Story realism leaves many questions

  dedeurs2017-08-09

  LifeTime sells its TV movies standard as 'based on a real story'. You know then that you can expect a glittery version of that real story. First of all, it usually revolves about a young handsome couple with Money, and white American of course. The screenwriters also don't shy away from altering facts and even adding fantasy. Cradle Swapping is still a decent film with Amanda Clayton who is quite convincing in her distress over having given birth to a sickly baby girl - she is almost immediately diagnosed with opium withdrawal symptoms - but her mother instinct also warns Amanda that something is altogether not right with her little Hannah. What her mother keeps feeding repeatedly: "She doesn't look like you or Ray at all!" Following tests reveal that Hannah is indeed not the couple's product. What follows is a search after the couple's real baby. The police gets involved, but Amanda and Brandon decide to do the finding on their own. I felt such is unwise, although it (there's a murder too) certainly ads some tensed scenes to the movie. A negative is that their private investigation moves the story into the realm of thriller-fiction. No problem of course (and finally a telly drama without court case scenes!) but it leads inevitably to moments that you think "Nah, I don't believe it happened like this". Okay, I hate babbies. They're all ugly and smelly. Yet I found Cradle Swap quite enjoyable. It's one of the better LifeTime 'true stories'.

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• Interesting and informative

  phd_travel2018-10-04

  A druggie couple's baby is deliberately swapped with a healthy couple's baby. So when the healthy couple bring the baby back they have to deal with the addiction of the baby. Quite informative about drugs legal and illegal and babies. Healthy mom is hysterical too much. The search for the baby is diy and quite exciting. Lifetime movie can educate too!

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