She Wants My Daughter (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Alison Chace, Jordan Lane Price, Justin C. Schilling
Director: Ian Niles
Writer(s): Ian Niles, Guy Harry
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When Jenna reconnects with her birth mother Sara through a DNA website, her adopted mother Claire is uneasy. As Sara grows closer to the family, Claire begins to suspect she has a hidden agenda.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
The movie starts with a terribly dressed office worker trying to reroute wire transfers and pretending to be her boss, Claire. When the money doesn’t go through, the office worker is killed.
Cut to the REAL Claire, who debates about blueberries with her adopted daughter, Jenna. Claire’s goofy new boyfriend, Marcus, signs Jenna up with a DNA service that matches Parents and Kids. He did this without consulting Claire. (The movie justifies this by having Marcus growing up adopted as well!) Claire is NOT about it and tells Jenna she can’t meet her birthparents because of “Violence!”
Jenna and Claire continue to be terrible to one another. Even when Claire bakes cookies!
Things aren’t much better at work for Claire. They find out someone (the girl from the beginning of the movie) has been siphoning money out of the company. Millions of dollars. Claire asks her deep-voiced chief of security to do a background check on Jenna’s birthmother.
Sarah, Jenna’s Biological mother, shows up at Claire’s door unannounced. Sarah proves that she has changed by showing Claire her five-year AA chip. Jenna comes home and is thrilled. Claire is less thrilled when Sarah indirectly calls Claire old AND Marcus hot over dinner.
Jenna and Sarah bond over their shared love of music. “Do you listen to music? So do I! So weird.” Claire tries to jump into the conversation and calls Sunset Rodeo a country band, which offends both Sarah and Jenna.
Sarah mentions that she is homeless and in a group home, and Jenna invites Sarah to stay with them. Claire isn’t into that idea and is forced into saying yes.
The next morning, Sarah suggests they skip school and go to the mall. Claire is like HELL NO, and she sets Sarah straight. Jenna has midterms and needs to focus on school, not bonding with her former alcoholic birth mother. The music gets really intense here, and the acting is super melodramatic.
After Claire hands Sarah her ass, she introduces the birthmother to Lenny, the security officer. Claire wants Sarah to know that she is being looked into, and Claire is onto her. Lenny interrogates Sarah, and she isn’t intimidated by his deep bass. Lenny tells Claire that Sarah is unhinged and takes her coffee to run her DNA in the criminal database. The background check comes back clean, but they find that the co-worker’s body.
There is a phone call scene that lasts a solid 10 minutes. Marcus helps Claire think of people to call for help in finding Jenna, who has gone missing after an argument over green beans at the dinner table. They end up calling Lenny. Lenny tells them that they should wait it out in case Jenna comes home. He probably gives good advice, but his voice is so low, I can’t understand what he is saying, TBH.
Jenna and Sarah come home. They were at a Sunset Rodeo concert and don’t see the big deal. Claire threatens to get a restraining order against Sarah and grounds Jenna forever. Marcus talks Claire down and promises her that Lenny will get to the bottom of things, just like he can hit those bottom notes in a men’s chorus.
Lenny goes into someone named Ezra’s house. He calls for Ezra, but his voice is so low, and we all know low sounds don’t carry as well. Ezra is dead, and Lenny is next.
Claire freaks out after learning about Lenny, and searches through Sarah’s suitcase and finds evidence of the wire transfers and the ID of the co-worker. Claire gets a text from someone extorting one million dollars, and she screams for Marcus. Marcus tries to act cool and calm Claire down. Then he hits Claire and ties her up.
Marcus pitched to the board of her company and didn’t get a grant. His wife left him, and he was ruled unstable and denied custody of their kids. His rock bottom led him to plan Revenge on Claire, grow a sexy mustache, and orchestrate a meet-cute. Marcus has been playing the role of the supportive boyfriend the whole time.
He chuckles while dousing gasoline on Claire and Emma. He plans to blame everything on Sarah. Jenna escapes from the restraints and makes a run for it. Marcus chases her with a hammer and tells her that he lied about being adopted, which is rude.
Just as Marcus goes all Big Bad Wolf on Jenna, Sarah comes home and saves her daughter, hitting Marcus in the head. She is a good mom after all!
Now that everyone is saved, Sarah takes Jenna on a trip, and Claire gets all the company money back. The end!
STRAY Thoughts
Andy Cohen is an executive producer? He should stick to reality TV.
How many location shots of that colonel were in this movie? Once I started counting, around 7.
Marcus was such a weird character, but totally hot. He was low-key my fav.
Wow, this is the worst movie of the year! Lazily shot & written, uninteresting locations, and boringly directed. Then we went to a 10 in the end. Could be a so bad it’s good at some points.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪🔪🔪(4 knives)
Lifetime Tropes: Where’s my daughter, Revenge, Bith
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷 (Glass of Wine)
Should you watch it?
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One of the most silliest movies Lifetime has ever produced. And the boyfriend’s reasoning for everything was such a stretch.
Andy Cohen being a executive producer for this seems very unlikely. More than likely it’s
just a namesake
Who was Ezra!? And Lenny’s it a 2 minimum for me. Tone Loc’s lost brother.