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The Wrong Daughter

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5.5/10 • 37

2018-04-151h 29m

ThrillerCrimeDrama

Love Me or Else

Kate and Joe have longed to be parents and are considering in vitro options... when Danica, a child Kate gave up 17 years ago, appears on Facebook. Danica comes to live with them, but she's not their real child. She's an impostor who will do anything, even kill, to get the mother's love she never had.

Directors
Ben Meyerson
Writters
Jesenia Ruiz, Carlee Malemute
Editors
Jesenia Ruiz, Carlee Malemute, Spenser Reich

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  1. Cindy Busby

    Cindy Busby

    Kate

  2. April Bowlby

    April Bowlby

    Ms. Hanson

  3. Sydney Sweeney

    Sydney Sweeney

    Samantha

  4. Jon Prescott

    Jon Prescott

    Joseph

  5. Kelsey Griswold

    Kelsey Griswold

    Melissa

  6. Jesse Pepe

    Jesse Pepe

    Ivan

  7. Sierra Pond

    Sierra Pond

    Danica

  8. Owen Saxon

    Owen Saxon

    Detective Stevenson

  9. Tom Berklund

    Tom Berklund

    Officer Richards

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Wuchak

May 9, 2025

6/10

The teen girl from hell An unruly 18 years-old orphaned girl (Sydney Sweeney) leaves a group home and worms her way into a young couple’s life by pretending to be the long lost daughter given up for adoption by the mother (Cindy Busby). “The Wrong Daughter” (2018) is a television production that understandably lacks the artistry of Drew Barrymore’s “Poison Ivy,” yet it works well enough for a family-oriented drama with some crime thrills, prosaic though it may be. Since it came out, Sweeney’s star has risen and most people will consider her the main attraction. She was almost 20 during shooting (or just turned 20), but she’s a little too thin here. As far as I’m concerned, Cindy Busby is the real highlight on the feminine front; she was 34 during shooting. (Be sure to check her out in “Behemoth” from seven years earlier, if you haven’t already). The flick is successful in making you root against the manipulations of the troubled young lass with the middle portion causing tedium and frustration. Yet the last act delivers the goods IMHO. She’s a psycho, but some sympathy is cultivated for her, even if it’s just a little. She executes evil deeds, indeed, yet the writers wisely keep it within plausibility. Less is more. It runs 1 hour, 30 minutes, and was shot in Los Angeles. GRADE: B-

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English
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