The accomplice hamming it up really got on my nerves, but everyone else played their roles believably. Liz was honestly the worst part of the movie, and a couple of times her presence nearly made me turn the movie off. She seemed like a person that Mitch got involved with, but couldn't ditch for whatever reason....until the time was right, as you'll see in the movie.
The movie is full of holes. Even for a 2004 movie, there still seems to be too little interest in confirming his identity. Also kind of interesting how in 2022, Lifetime movies are still not confirming identities with the technology available. Felt really bad for the father since he was just as onboard with welcoming "Jamie" as his wife was. I didn't realize Lifetime movies have been using that particular method of death for so long. It's very popular in their more recent movies. I also don't remember a scene where the two criminals stated how they found out about the family and the earlier adoption. Not to mention that the friend sees Kathleen and "Jamie" at the bank, and senses something is off. Yet the bank manager accepts the shadiest reason for withdrawing a million dollars and transferring it to an international bank, and decides to fast track it instead of sticking to protocol. He should be fired. Wouldn't part of his job be to sense red flags in transactions just like this?
The ending was a bit corny given that technically Kathleen wasn't Real! Jamie's mother anymore and his adoptive mother seemed to love him. But I get the movie tried to show happily ever after.
It made for decent background noise in the kitchen.
