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Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

Title:	The TV Chatter Notes Conference
Notice:	Welcome to TV Chatter :-)
Moderator:	PASTA::PIERCE

Created:	Wed Dec 16 1992
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	498
Total number of notes:	5416

336.0. "Deadly Deception (made for TV movie)" by OOTOOL::THATTE (Nisha Thatte-Potter) Sat Jan 28 1995 04:17

I was flipping on Wed night and caught a movie called "Deadly Deception"
on (I think) Lifetime.  I watched most of the first 30 minutes and then
decided that I couldn't stay up for the whole movie.  Now I want to know
what happened.

The plot (I don't think I need a spoiler since it all happened in the 
first 30 minutes and most of it was given away by the tv guide):

A new mom who is suffering from post-natal depression gets a call from
someone claiming to be from a baby food company.  He tells her that 
she has won a shopping spree in a town about an hours away.  But she must 
do it that day since they are only in town for the day. She
hems and haws but decides to do it.  We see that he isn't calling
from an office (as he claims) but instead from a telephone booth and
there is something not right going on.  She goes there and they try to
convince her that she needs to leave her baby with them while she
goes shopping.  She replies no and they tell her that they will work
something out.  Next thing you see, she has committed suicide and the
baby is missing.

There is a search for the baby and all the police find is some baby clothing
near a river.  They decide that she has thrown the baby in the river since
she is suffering from the post-natal depression and has killed herself.

The tv guide says that a reporter convinces the father to look for the
baby and not assume he is dead.  

Anyone catch this?

-- Nisha

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
336.1		SMAUG::COGAN	Kirsten A. Cogan	`Sat Jan 28 1995 04:39`	9
	I saw this movie a few years ago. From what I remember the baby was kidnapped by a family member that noone knew about. I think it might have been the fathers biological grandmother who he didn't know about. Kirsten
336.3		SWAM2::SMITH_MA		`Sat Jan 28 1995 07:46`	3
	Jeez. MJ
336.4	the mother?	OOTOOL::THATTE	Nisha Thatte-Potter	`Sat Jan 28 1995 09:23`	8
	Thanks for the information. I don't think I would have ever guessed that ending. Did the mother really kill herself or did she get killed and it was made to look like suicide? -- Nisha
336.6		BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Trouble with a capital 'T'	`Tue Jan 31 1995 02:55`	8
	Some people might actually want to see this movie and be surprised by the ending. Not me, mind you. GTI
336.7		SWAM2::SMITH_MA		`Tue Jan 31 1995 06:57`	3
	Tch, tch. MJJ
336.2	ending	WRKSYS::PURIS		`Tue Jan 31 1995 08:00`	33
	Spoiler follows: I was surfing and came back to this about half-way through. Yes, I believe the reporter suugests to the father that baby may not be dead. To make a long story somewhat short: Father has always had dreams/flashblacks of a beaded curtain. He is convinced that there is something in his past that will connect him back with his baby. He presses his parents for info. They finally tell him they he was conceived before they were married (his dad didn't know she was pregnant. They split up. Mom continues pregnancy and has baby. After some period realizes she can't raise baby on own and gives up for adoption. Dad returns to scene, mom tells him she had a child. Dad and mom get married and go about getting baby back, they succeed. Rich woman who had custody of baby until mom/dad get back has followed baby's life. When she finds out her "son" had a child, she hires this couple to kidnap baby..her "grandchild". The dreams/flashbacks were from time he spent at foster mom's house. It's a little complicated on how the father tracks all this down. But the movie ends with him finding baby at foster mom's house. Phil
336.5	answer	WRKSYS::PURIS		`Tue Jan 31 1995 08:03`	18
	Spoiler follows: No, the people that kidnapped the baby killed her. They wanted to her to let them watch the baby while she went on the shopping spree, she wouldn't. They killed and tried to make it look like a suicide. A lot of people ended up dead in this movie. The couple that kidnapped the baby ended up dead. The woman who paid for the kidnapping committed suicide at the end as well.
336.8	RE: Spoilers added	WRKSYS::PURIS		`Tue Jan 31 1995 08:07`	4
	In response to .6, I have deleted the original notes and re-entered with a spoiler warning.
336.9		BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Trouble with a capital 'T'	`Tue Jan 31 1995 09:26`	5
	Thank you. GTI