Terrible. I didn’t like it at all.
It’s a mystery-thriller, but half of it goes so slow it’s very boring, and the second part is mostly annoying and very unsatisfying.
It starts with pregnant Ivy being very emotional and having nightmares because she already had two stillborn child. Her husband David appears to be very much in love and caring.
They live in a big house full of stairs and only now they are considering moving to another, safer place. Only now.
They try to sell their old stuff in their garden, and there they meet Melinda, a girl they knew in high-school.
Melinda also seems to be pregnant, but immediately she sends off crazy-vibes.
She asks David to show her the house, and by the way she looks at him we know something’s going on there. He looks very uncomfortable but can’t really say no.
When the police start searching the place, finding Melinda’s bloody clothes inside their stuff, and their kitchen knife all bloody thrown away outside his workplace, the police suspects him.
Apparently Melinda’s sister reported her missing. Nobody said anything at the mention of said sister. They really knew well in high-school…
Half the movie in, the police tell Ivy all the evidence agains David, which includes a message David left on Melinda’s answering machine. Nothing too compromising, but Ivy didn’t know about it, she thought they never spoke, and is shocked now, and starts thinking that David actually killed Melinda.
Just like that. She meets him in jail and acts all bitchy to him, shouting at him all the evidence.
Only when she goes back home and finds out that her neighbour has been hit on the head she starts wondering is someone else did it.
Why on earth was the poor old woman attacked, nobody ever tells us.
Ivy asks her friend Jodie for help, and together they go to Melinda’s house (which was not sealed with police tape or anything).
The apartment looks like nobody lived in it, so they decide to go to Melinda’s mother’s house.
Melinda said that her mother moved to Florida, and they plan on asking whoever lives there now to tell them where she is now (why should they know, I wonder).
Anyway, there’s an awful smell. They look around and find Melinda’s high school diary. It’s obvious she was very much obsessed with David, and in the diary she speaks of what happened at the bowling alley, without saying exactly what. Ivy starts suspecting their lawyer Theo, who is now running for office, saying that if Melinda had something against him Theo maybe disposed of her…
And finally they find a corpse in the bathtub, but can’t look who it is because Ivy starts having contractions and Jodie takes her to the hospital.
A nurse gives her something when nobody’s around, and we’re very suspicious about that, but Ivy isn’t. Contractions stop. When Theo comes to see her she acts rude and accusing, then goes home to find her neighbour little dog dead in the baby’s cradle (or however the little baby bed is called).
Melinda appears out of nowhere saying that she wants her baby (meaning that Melinda calls the baby inside Ivy ‘my baby’ ).
The cop found the diary too, and now talks to David and Theo, and we finally learn what happened back then. Melinda was left alone working at the bowling alley. David went there to play with all his friends. The others were like bullies who covered the girl in beer, while David looked sorry for her (not actually doing anything though).
Melinda wrote that David was so nice and they went in the back and had sex and she became pregnant, but David knows it never happened, and it turns out it was Theo, and that he raped her.
The delusional girl kept saying it was David. Now she says that David refused to marry, that her own mother had her abort the baby, although it seems like she was never pregnant, she says that later in the cop’s car.
Anyway, pregnant Ivy fights Melinda off and manages to injects her with everything Melinda had with her to accelerate the birth delivery.
She calls an ambulance and goes to the hospital, then her friend Jodie calls the cops to tell them about Melinda (why wait so much???)
We hear the whole story that Melinda tells the cops: she never had a sister, it was her all along.
Ivy has a healthy baby boy that they call David Jr and the couple is together again and happy.
Nobody knows what happens to Theo.
Ivy - Anastasia Griffith
David - Brendan Fehr
Melinda - Clea Duvall
ITA Il figlio dell’inganno
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