A Mother’s Intuition (2024 Lifetime)
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Cast: Denise Boutte, Tamar Braxton, Matt Cedeño
Director: Cas Sigers-Beedles
Writer: Nicole D. Sconiers
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySynopsis (via Lifetime)
The story of a new mom who searches for the truth of her missing newborn and uncovers more than she could have ever imagined. Stars Denise Boutee, Matt Cedeno, Brely Evans and Tamar Braxton (2024).
Recap/Wine Thoughts.
Toni has a sexy time with her husband. They do sexy time in her art studio. Sexy time in the shower. It’s sexy all over the house really, but it is also all a dream. Toni’s husband is recently dead, and she is pregnant with his baby. Toni is a single black mother-to-be, and her doctor has her on anti-anxiety medication (which they are tampering with her without notifying her.) Her doctor, Dr. Snyder, also gives Toni subpar care due to an unconscious bias, but Toni doesn’t want to switch doctors. Toni is all alone except for her best friends, Cecily and Simone. They advocate for Toni to switch providers.
Toni gets out her aggression by sculpting! (Like. she is a literal sculptor with a pick and everything! Lifetime has the wildest jobs.)
While picking up marble for an art installation, Toni talks to hunk brothers, Julian and “other brother who doesn’t matter.” Toni isn’t interested in dating, obviously. Julian delivers the materials, and he learns about his husband dying. She also talks about her dead parents and how she is alone. It is awkward, but he encourages her to keep at her art.
Toni finds out the sex of the baby and cries about the loss of the opportunity for her to be a “daddy’s girl.” (Which is sad, even the joyful moments in her pregnancy are tainted by loss.)
Julian continues to hang out with Toni, and they go on a first date to prenatal yoga. He gets her gelato, and Toni realizes she needs to clarify things. Toni visits him at work and lets him feel her very pregnant belly. (Which isn’t much of a clarification.)
Toni tours the hospital and sees the doctors and nurse fraternizing, she is disgusted by their unprofessionalism. It’s too late to change hospitals because Toni goes into labor and quickly has her baby.
Toni holds her daughter in a medical haze; a nurse with red highlights takes the baby, and when Toni awakes, her doctor tells her that her baby didn’t make it. The nurses bring the baby’s body (ugh) to Toni, and she insists that the baby is not hers.
Understandably, Toni falls into a deep depression after returning home from the hospital. Her friends support her until she starts to get her strength back, but the tragedy still haunts her dreams. Simone tells Toni about her friend who went to the same hospital, and her baby got a bad infection, causing a heart defect. More stories like this appear online, and the hospital has a bad reputation when dealing with Black patients.
Toni bursts into the hospital and accuses them of stealing her baby. She upsets the mothers and herself in the process. After that doesn’t work, Toni asks Julian for help finding her daughter. He takes her concerns seriously and helps Toni track the OR nurses. (The nurses are not open to talking and claim no one with red highlights works at the hospital?!?!) Julian tells Toni she is taking on a lot, but he will stand by her if she wants to press charges.
Toni starts to skip her anti-anxiety pills and has flashbacks to the abuse she suffered as a child. (It is randomly shoehorned into the movie; hasn’t this woman suffered enough without an abusive backstory?) Cecily recommends a therapist, Dr. Chandra, to help with the PTSD Toni is suffering.
Amid all the drama, Toni has her art showing and it goes well. She sells all her pieces, including to Dr. Zandra, a hospital delivery doctor. Is it hush money? Dr. Snyder claims not to know the doctor when Toni asks her about her colleague.
Julian goes above and beyond and tracks down Toni’s birth mother, who Toni said was dead. He also meets her father who is in a wheelchair with a brain injury. Julian also talks to her roommate, who has red hair, in a home for troubled teens. He starts to doubt everything Toni has told him.
Enter Tamar Braxton!!!!! (In glasses!) She is playing a therapist, and I need her to solve all my problems. Tamar tells Toni that society doubts Black people, so it becomes easy to doubt oneself.
Toni apologizes to Julian and explains that she is embarrassed and ashamed of her past. Her father was abusive and beating his wife so severely that Toni intervened and hit her father with a hammer. (Which is why he is in a wheelchair with brain damage.) Admitting to her traumatic past clears up her mind to recall the doctor and nurse flirting in the hallway from her hospital tour.
Toni tries to track down the nurse at the hospital but decides to go directly to Dr. Zadra under the guise of selling her artwork. She presses him for information while talking in art metaphors. (That I’m not following.) He gets her a drink, and Toni rummages through his things. She works with Julian to find multiple complaints and suspended medical licenses in other states; they also run his plates on a fancy car that leads them to Emily, the red highlight nurse. (All of a sudden, they are detectives! Oh wait, Julian is a detective, haha. I missed that. He helps out at the factory with his brother, who doesn’t matter.)
The red highlight nurse comes clean after learning Dr. Zarada has operated while high. She explains that the doctor made a mistake and caused the death of a baby and covered it up because he couldn’t face another malpractice charge; highlights agrees to corers a confession. She instead warns the doctor before they head to a meeting place.
Toni and Julian bring the nurse to the wear house, but the doctor and nurse beat them up. Dr. Zarada goes full-on Lifetime villain here and confesses to everything while strangling Toni. She fights him off and maybe kills him. This ending is like…wut?
Toni gets her baby back, and the hospital goes down! One month later, Toni starts to feel like herself and thanks Julian for helping her when she needed it most.
Side Note/Stray Thoughts
Fior is a name that I’ve never heard of. There are only five people with this name in the US currently.
Lifetime has tacked Doctor bias against black patients before, most notably in Beware of the Midwife in 2021. This movie is more successful in approaching the topic with the depth that it deserves.
Overall rating
Numbers of Kills: 🔪🔪 (2 knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷🍷 (4 Glasses of Wine)
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