Mommy’s Stolen Memories (2024 Lifetime)
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Cast: Tammin Sursok, Nathanael Vass,
Director: Panta Mosleh
Writer(s): Adam Minneci
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Mallory’s life turns upside-down after her young son, Billy, is drawn to Samantha, a strange woman who whispers to him at the local pool. Billy refuses to reveal what she said, and now he’s acting up, Samantha is spying on her, and her husband, Reese, is behaving like he is hiding a secret from her. Little does Mallory know, because of memory loss, that she kidnapped Billy from his mother years ago. Starring Tammin Sursok, and Nathanael Vass (2023).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Tammin Sursok is back on Lifetime, and we couldn’t be more pleased.
This time, we meet a mother named Mallory. She is pushing out a kid in her home bed. Her husband is by her side. He is handsome and Mallory says the baby boy, Billy, looks just like him.
Flash forward seven years. Mallory has suffered from a series of strokes that have left her memory impaired. (Later, she also mentions falling down the stairs, so the story is unclear.) Mallory can’t remember her wedding day, and her husband, Reese, often tells her how they met and fell in love. (ALLEGEDLY!) Lesbian Linda, Mallory’s business partner and friend, also helps fill in the gaps.
Mallory, Reese, and Billy picnic in the middle of winter and throw a Frisbee around. It is absolutely unhinged, and Tammin Sursok cannot throw a Frisbee. When Mallory catches the Frisbee, she has an intense flashback. She remembers when Billy got it as a gift from Lesbian Linda. (Okay, so the memory wasn’t THAT intense.)
Billy has an imaginary friend (or maybe not) named Samantha. Mallory takes Billy to do indoor rock climbing but has difficulty keeping track of the other moms and their lives. When Mallory sees that Samantha is full grown ass woman talking to her child, she freaks out. Billy promises to stay away from the grown woman. Mallory talks to Reese, and he is less freaked out than she is. Mallory wants to go to the police. Reese talks her out of it. He promises it will all be okay and to go to the police, later.
Things aren’t okay because Billy is getting bullied at school and drawing disturbing images. Reese and Mallory meet with the school to try to deal with it. Samantha continues to talk to Billy, and she tells him they are friends while finishing for all of his allergies.
Mallory has trouble booking an appointment with her therapist, and Lesbian Linda is a bit too helpful. (Is she in love with Mallory? Or does she want to BE Mallory?) They even confront the mother of Billy’s bully together. Vanessa is a bully like her son and tells them to worry about themselves.
Billy goes missing after school and doesn’t show up at climbing practice. Mallory calls Reese and tries to locate Billy by tracking his phone; she is convinced Samantha took her son. It turns out Billy is just cool and skipped school.
The nerves are getting to Mallory, and she is having more flashbacks. Mallory asks Lesbian Linda about her marriage to Reese and starts to doubt things are as rosy as Reese’s stories. Mallory does her own “Swifty Searching” and finds a story about a missing kid from a few towns over.
Mallory visits the following day and talks to a housesitting friend of the mother of the missing child. (It’s convoluted.) Amy’s son went missing, and she has been searching for her son with the help of her BEST FRIEND, SAMANTHA!!!! Mallory worries that Amy thinks Billy is her son.
Lesbian Linda looks up Samantha on SWIFY-GRAM! (This is a new one and iconic. Thanks, Lesbian Linda!) Linda calls Mallory and leaves a voicemail with Samantha’s last name. Oh, goddamn it, Lesbian Linda is killed in the office, and his laptop is stolen. (Boo! Stop killing Lesbians!)
The police question Mallory when she finds the body and has no reports on file about Samantha’s harassment and stalking. Reese lied when he told Mallory he reported everything to the police. Then Mallory finds suspicious deleted phone messages on her husband’s account. Mallory confronts Reese about his lying, and he claims he is doing his own investigation.
Mallory texts the number on an old phone she finds in the garage. It is Amy on the other end. The mothers set up a meeting, and Mallory learns that Amy thinks Reese and Mallory took her baby. Mallory can’t trust her own memories and drops Billy off at another parent’s house.
Mallory confronts Reese and plays it cool at first, but then he attacks. Mallory hits her husband with a frying pan. Reese pulls a gun on her. He tells Mallory that they stole Billy when their baby died. It was all Mallorie’s idea. Reese tells Mallory he kept it all a secret to keep Mallory safe. Then he admits to killing Lesbian Linda and the doctor who helped with the birth because they knew too much.
While running away from Reese, Mallory trips by the stairs and has her final and most crucial flashback. Mallory wanted to give Billy back when he was five. Reese didn’t agree with that. Reese pushed him down the stairs. Which caused her memory loss.
Reese grabs Mallory, and she takes his gun and shoots him. The police burst through the doors. Mallory gives Billy back to Amy. When Mallory explains what is happening to Billy, she compares it to borrowing a toy. She says the toy doesn’t belong to you. This is an oversimplification! Billy will now be known as David. Amy advocated for Mallory in court. She serves no jail time for her crimes.
Two years later, Amy and Mallory watch Billy/David climb rocks. Mallory is now pregnant with a baby of her own. She is expecting with her new husband.
Side Note/Stray Thoughts
Even though she was playing a memory-addled paranoid mother, Tammin Sursok is pretty grounded in this performance. Good for her! (Sad for me, who loves her when she goes CAMP!)
I was excited about the LGBTQ representation, but the “Bury Yout Gays” trope is in effect here.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪🔪 (3 knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
Should you watch it?
Pour it Up (Give it a shot!)
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This was the most boring Lifetime movie I’ve seen in a while. I was looking forward to your feedback and sad to see you recommended it. I fell asleep about halfway in and every time I stirred awake, Mallory and someone else was sitting and talking. It appeared the movie had no plot and was just her talking to someone from scene to scene. Seriously, it couldn’t be more boring. I did get through the end a bit when he is shouting and waving a gun at her. Truly. Suffering.
Thank you for the write-up, but, assuming this isn’t AI, you should proofread. Too many typos, mixing up pronouns, etc. Makes it harder than necessary to understand.
Thank you! You’re right, I don’t proof read. Please send me edits if you have them!