Empty Cradle

1993
6.4| 1h36m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 03 October 1993 Released
Producted By: Bein-Mills Productions
Country: United States of America
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Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.

Genre

Drama, TV Movie

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Director

Paul Schneider

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Bein-Mills Productions

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SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
celestial_princess I saw this movie when it was new back in 1993, when I was just a teenager. What a great movie. It stars Lori Loughlin as Jane, a woman with two children who is told her third child was stillborn due to narcotics found in her bloodstream. But she knows that's impossible because she never did drugs and the baby kicked in the car on the way to the hospital. Unfortunately, nobody believes her, not even her husband or best friend. But we find out shortly after that Jane is telling the truth: Nurse Rita Donahue (played by Kate Jackson) drugged her and stole her baby girl in an effort to get her boyfriend Frank to marry her. Then we find out Frank is married with three daughters and desperately wants a son, so Rita makes plans to steal another baby soon after. This movie is full of suspense, and it's truly shocking and disturbing to see just how far Rita will go to get what she wants. The most astounding part is that she almost gets away with it! But thankfully, the truth eventually comes out and Jane is reunited with her child. See it at any cost. It's one of Lifetime's best TV movies.
mlone Kate Jackson is a hoot as a crazy white-trash nurse who schemes to steal babies from pregnant women so she can lure her married boyfriend into being with her and their "family." She goes from kindly nurse to psycho baby-stealer in the blink of an eye -- great job, Kate; who knew you were such a comedienne?!The serious segments with Lori Loughlin are typical Lifetime melodrama, but the over-the-top scenes with Kate and her teenage son, played by Jonah Blechman, are pure Lifetime cheese (and I mean that in a good way!) Eriq LaSalle (Dr. Peter Benton on "ER") shows up in the last 30 minutes as an inquisitive detective.Very entertaining in a campy sort of way.
travsgirl I thought the people acting in this movie were great. I just can't understand how someone would want a child so badly that they would do what this woman did! And the fact that she drug her son into it making him a part of the crimes.
Celine-4 This is a very disturbing movie but it's very good. I've seen this movie several times and I have a copy of it. It stars Kate Jackson as Rita, a woman who is in love with her married boyfriend and wants to have his baby. However, she can no longer have children.The movie moves at a steady pace and Kate Jackson gives a very believable and quite disturbing performance as the unstable Rita. And Lori Loughin gives a heartwrenching performance as the determined Jane. The movie keeps you guessing as to how far Rita will go to get what she wants. And the things she does will literally surprise and shock you.Kate Jackson took quite a risk playing a character totally the opposite from her usual characters, but she manages to handle it flawlessly. Eric LaSalle (ER) is good as the cop determined to prove Rita isn't as caring and wonderful as everyone believes. As I've pointed out, the movie is quite disturbing for a TV movie and children should not be allowed to see this movie.