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A Deadly Adoption (2015)

A Deadly Adoption poster
Directed by
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 85 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A middle class couple take in a pregnant woman who plans to give them her baby. The woman turns out to have dangerous intentions.

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What happens

A Deadly Adoption is a 2015 American thriller drama television film directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg (in her feature directorial debut) and written by Harper Steele. It was described as a "deadpan parody of Lifetime Channel films" by critic Damon Wise. It stars comedians Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig as a typical middle-class husband and wife, with Jessica Lowndes serving as the villain. It was so deadpan that when it premiered on the Lifetime Channel on June 20, 2015, audiences failed to recognize that it was, in fact, satirical. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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