Empty Cradle (1993)
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
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everything you have heard about this movie is true.
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Kate Jackson is a hoot as a crazy white-trash nurse who schemes to steal babies from pregnant women so she can lure her married boyfriend into being with her and their "family." She goes from kindly nurse to psycho baby-stealer in the blink of an eye -- great job, Kate; who knew you were such a comedienne?!The serious segments with Lori Loughlin are typical Lifetime melodrama, but the over-the-top scenes with Kate and her teenage son, played by Jonah Blechman, are pure Lifetime cheese (and I mean that in a good way!) Eriq LaSalle (Dr. Peter Benton on "ER") shows up in the last 30 minutes as an inquisitive detective.Very entertaining in a campy sort of way.
I thought that this was a very good lifetime version of the story, but a far cry from the truth. It is unfortunate that the true story has never been told. I am the baby that was taken in this particular story and I think that the fact told to the public were unclear and distorted.We are not a white family in the suburbs and she took me because I was a mixed child and she was dating a black man.I don't really want to tell much but the story was good but not the truth and I was kind of disappointed that the network did not depict the truth.
Well I Did Happen To see the previews about a week or two ago and it said Lori loughlin and i Just love her so i knew i just had to see this performance. Wow I'm glad i did it was dramatic. The Determined Mean Person in this movie was Rita played by Kate Jackson. Then Lori Loughlin as the lady who had her baby taking away. They told her that they found drugs in her system.Rita Slipped The Drugs into her system,stole her baby. Then Another Lady Was Pregnant and she Murdered her. Then The Detective Eric Lasalle From NBCs ER investigated Rita and then she got arrested and Lori Loughlins Character got her baby back. I did think the movie was quite interesting. You Just Gotta Have Patience to really understand it.
I thought the people acting in this movie were great. I just can't understand how someone would want a child so badly that they would do what this woman did! And the fact that she drug her son into it making him a part of the crimes.