After a miscarriage the year prior, the couple are eager for a second chance at happiness one assumes that's the reason why they look past Anna's outlandishly sketchy boyfriend Mike (Theo Rossi).He becomes impossible to ignore, however, when his behavior escalates into domestic abuse, prompting the couple to invite Anna to live in their guesthouse. Anna agrees to act as a surrogate for John (Morris Chestnut) and Laura Taylor (Regina Hall), a successful and well-adjusted couple who want to have a baby.
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Yet this movie is also intent on following its own path, one that mirrors the development of its alluring antagonist, Anna Walsh (portrayed by relative newcomer Jaz Sinclair), from seemingly innocent to dark and demented. Retrieved 12 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.When the Bough Breaks is destined to draw comparisons to the 2009 Idris Elba-Beyoncé Knowles film Obsessed, as well as other modern thrillers featuring unhinged femme fatales. Retrieved 17 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "British studios take a holiday from thrillers". Retrieved 6 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia. ^ "Fingerprints Identify Murdered "Lag "". ^ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 210. Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1948. However it was popular and made a profit. The house featured in the film was based on the real life house of Sydney Box. It was less glamorous than the typical Gainsborough melodrama, with no outfit worn by Patricia Roc costing more than £5. The film was the second in four films produced by Betty Box for Gainsborough with a total budget of £600,000. Lily and Bill then have a baby of their own and are shown happily celebrating his birthday, while Jimmy celebrates his birthday with the Normans. Bill, seeing that Jimmy is unhappy, persuades Lily to let him return to the Normans. Jimmy goes to live with Lily and Bill, but has trouble adjusting to life in a working-class household, and runs away in an attempt to return to the Normans, whom he considers his true "mummy and daddy". A legal battle ensues, and the court awards custody of Jimmy to Lily due to the lack of any formal adoption agreement. Lily visits the Normans to reclaim Jimmy, now that she has the resources to take care of him, but the Normans refuse to give him up since Lily has not been part of Jimmy's life and he does not know he is not the Normans' natural child. The Normans do not tell Jimmy he is adopted and he regards them as his parents.Įight years pass, during which time Lily rises to the level of manager at the department store and falls in love with a kind shopkeeper, Bill Collins (Bill Owen), who marries her and is willing to accept Jimmy as his own. Lily eventually gives up on staying in touch with the Normans and drops out of Jimmy's life, although she misses him. Seeing that Jimmy is happy and is receiving better food and care than she was able to manage, Lily agrees to let the Normans raise Jimmy, although she refuses to sign any legal document formally allowing them to adopt Jimmy. When Lily recovers, she visits Jimmy at the Normans' comfortable home. When Lily, under stress from her demanding schedule, becomes ill with flu, Frances persuades Lily to let her and her husband look after Jimmy temporarily. 
Frances Norman (Rosamund John), a middle-class married woman who works at the day nursery to be around children after losing her own baby, is drawn to Jimmy. Each day Lily leaves Jimmy at a day nursery while she works as a shopgirl at a department store, and then cares for Jimmy herself at night. After learning that her husband is a bigamist who already had a wife, new mother Lily Gardner (Patricia Roc) resolves to raise her baby, Jimmy, on her own under her maiden name of Lily Bates rather than give him up for adoption.
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