vintagejeffw Review of A Deadly Adoption

A Deadly Adoption (2015 TV Movie)

A parody to test your WTF threshold

[6/10 · 27 June 2015]

This was a parody, plain and simple, where the comedic actors played their roles as dead-pan seriously as they could, in order to keep you off-guard as long as possible. It pokes fun at Lifetime movies: the moronic plots, the stereotypical characters, and the predictably happy endings (the painfully long happy dancing at the end subtly asks the audience, "did you catch the joke?") How many times had you asked yourself, "WTF?" An author's book signing tour becomes a debaucherous drunken spree, where he scores as much tail as a rock star? (WTF?) And he doesn't remember the hot girl until it's too late? (WTF?) He gets shot twice and, after a large volume of blood gushes from his arm, goes out to confront the girl without bandaging his wounds ? (WTF?) The boyfriend gets shot in the gut, and gets up to scream at the police? (WTF?) The hero motorboats to the bridge and stands in the road, moments before the villain arrives in the pickup ? (WTF?) The escape plan was to have your daughter jump off the bridge, then you jump off after her ? (WTF?) Other reviewers caught most of the funny moments that I recall, like the slow-motion heroic garage door opening scene, the intense look of concern and determination on the slow-motorboating Ferrel's face, the psycho's high heels following her off the bridge as she plunged to her death from her fatal shoulder wound... I came in late in the movie, where the family was eating breakfast, but by the time the scene with Ferrel and the girl in his study took place, I knew from the dialog that the film was tongue-in-cheek: "IT must get HARD sometimes..." she says provocatively. "Yes, IT does get HARD," or words to that effect.