The Boy with My Son’s Face (2026 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Italia Ricci, Luke Camilleri, Siobhan Williams
Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero
Writer(s): Oritte Bendory, Barry L. Levy
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After losing her baby to a sudden death, Susan struggles with postpartum depression and is convicted of a crime she cannot remember. Years later, she spots a photo of a boy who looks just like her son, older and alive.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Susan Weber is a tired mother, comforting her son as he cries in the night. There is a crash downstairs and a door wide open, so Susan investigates and tidies up. While she does, someone kidnaps the baby. Susan screams for her husband, Mark. Who slept through the whole thing? Then she grabs a golf club and runs after the kidnapper.
Next, we go back in time, maybe to the day the baby was born. Susan and Mark welcome baby Dylan. Mark invites Susan’s estranged dad, Neil, and his new, much younger wife, Ginny. Who might be pregnant as well, meaning Susan might have a baby son AND a baby brother.
Aunt Peggy shows up to help take care of the baby since Susan’s mother passed away. Aunt Peggy doesn’t stay long, and that is too bad because Susan is suffering from postpartum depression, anxiety, and mom brain. She even slips on toys that no newborn should have!
Back to the night in question, and the baby isn’t even missing. Mark finds him in the crib and gaslights Susan into thinking she is cray. Mark even hires a psychologist to meet with Susan. She suggests going on antidepressants and hiring a nanny.
Enter Amy, the new nanny, who takes care of the baby while Susan becomes addicted to pills and spills them all over the place. She is so incapacitated and addicted to the pills that she can’t even function. IT IS A LIFETIME PILL POPPING MONTAGE! (It has been a while, and I laughed a lot.)
Susan is so hopped up on pills that she faints in a doctor’s office and in the bathtub, fully clothed. She fires Amy for meddling in her life and then tells her husband she is fine while practically sedated.
Things get blurry, and the baby goes missing. His blanket is found in the pool, and Susan can’t remember what happened, but is charged with manslaughter. Her friends and family speak against her, and the only person who stands by her side is Mark.
Susan goes to trial and is found guilty. She ends up in jail for 8 years. Mark still tries to be there for her, but she cuts him off.
FOUR YEARS LATER
Susan is on probation for good behavior and moves into a women’s shelter. Her probation officer is a snack! He isn’t such a nice guy, but he has some muscles!
Susan works at a dive bar and makes friends with a lesbian waitress/hacker named Cassie. I like Cassie, A LOT. We don’t see this type of character on Lifetime, but she feels like she is a real one, and Susan needs a friend.
A stranger leaves a photo of Dylan as an adult, prompting Susan and Cassie to wonder whether Dylan is alive. Susan talks to Aunt Peggy, who happens to be an investigative journalist. The only trouble is that everyone finds out who Susan is, and she loses her bar job, and she gets harassed.
Cassie teaches Susan how to box and defend herself. They also stake out Susan’s relatives and friends to see what they are up to. When Cassie researches the doctor who prescribed the meds, they are surprised to find out she died in a freak car accident. (Later, we learn she was killed for knowing too much.)
The final person on the list is Mark. When Cassie shows him the picture, Mark freaks out and tells Susan to stay out of his life. Susan runs into her friend, who turned against her. In that conversation, Susan learns that the pills for nortriptyline are RED, not BLUE. Mark was dragging her. Mark also trashes Cassie’s place to scare her off.
Cassie does some digging online and learns that Mark had a wife before Susan. Amy, the babysitter!!! Susan goes to Amy’s shop and ruffs her up for information. Amy says she could have kids, and that ended her relationship with Mark. Susan is arrested for assault and goes back to jail. Mark visits her in jail and gaslights her some more. What a jerk.
Susan is transported to a minimal security prison and overtakes the guard and steals his truck. She rushes to stop Mark from harming Cassie, but she is too late. Cassie gives Susan some information she found online before she dies. Mark and Amy are siblings. Amy blackmailed her brother into giving her Dylan to keep their incestuous relationship a secret.
Mark kills Amy after she tries to stop him from killing Susan, after she confronts him. Then he frames Susan for the murder, and she has to go on the run to her estranged father for help. He gives her a car and sends her to an airport, where Mark is trying to run off with Dylan.
The police arrest Susan, but Aunt Peggy shows up and finds Dylan in the trunk of Mark’s car, Alive! Mark is arrested, and Susan is reunited with her son.
Susan opens a women’s shelter in Cassie’s name. I wish Cassie hadn’t died, but otherwise, this was solid.
STRAY Thought
This movie took some big swings for a TV movie. I thought it was successful.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪🔪 ( 3 knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
Lifetime Tropes: Lost baby, Mommy Drama, Bad Husband
Should you watch it?
Pour it up (Give it a shot)
Put a Cork in It (Skip It!)
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