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(2014 TV Movie)

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7/10
Well done quite believable
phd_travel13 November 2017
This is an above average Lifetime thriller. The plot isn't dominated by a comical over the top psycho so it's actually more believable and involving. A college student who needs money decides to donate and egg and carry a baby for a couple. After the couple dies the mother of the son who is the biological grandmother helps her. But all isn't that upfront with the grandmother and her husband. The scenario is quite plausible so far.

The actresses are quite alright. The ending ins't too exaggerated.

Worth one watch.
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9/10
Maureen and Charlie are an axis of evil!
DavidSKS25 October 2017
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Maureen and Charlie are two of the most disgusting characters you will ever come across. They are so evil it will make your stomach turn. You will want to punch these two through your screen. Killing poor Sara and Jameson by cutting the brake line, getting Bob arrested on trumped-up charges, then treating Valerie worse than crap. It is revolting. It is sad to say there are people like this in the real world. Fortunately, Valerie has people who are willing to go all out to ensure her safety, and more important, the safety of the baby she is carrying.
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8/10
How Would You Like Your Eggs?
lavatch12 September 2019
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College student and sorority sister Valerie ("Val") Vont faces a dilemma. She is about to lose her financial aid at college because her drunken father is falsely claiming her as a dependent on his tax returns. So, Val moves into action to consider donating her "eggs" for $25,000 or earning an even greater payday for carrying a child to term as a surrogate. She opts for the big money.

But a problem ensues when the parents who have enlisted Val die in an auto crash after their vehicle was rigged for the brakes to fail. The culprit was the boyfriend of Jameson's powerful mother and former congresswoman Maureen Darlington. It was her boyfriend Charlie Harding, who paid his former thug crony Walter to kill Sara. Unbeknownst to him, Jameson was also riding in the car.

Charlie is the lynchpin of the nefarious actions to gain possession of the baby carried by Val to ensure that the matriarch Maureen will be able to raise the child on her own. But Val wants the kind sister Stacie and her gentle husband Bob to be the parents. Charlie draws upon his background as the "fixer" for Maureen's corrupt political campaigns, the Walden video, wiretaps, and even the murder of her husband Edward.

The quick-thinking friends of Val, including her sorority sister Su and her compliant boyfriend Kyle become suspicious of the machinations of Maureen and Charlie. But the film really belongs to Val, who will stop at nothing to bring a happy baby into the world.

The only scene that truly stretched credibility was the moment in the hospital when Val cheerfully handed the baby off like a football to Stacie and Bob. No post-partum depression for Godmother Val! Hers was a job well-done in being a sorority sister that will make Omega Zeta Delta proud.
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10/10
A young surrogate mother suddenly faces a terrifying dilemma when the couple who hires her dies in an accident.
PaulGregs15 April 2014
SORORITY SURROGATE blew my mind. I had all but given up on the typical woman in peril, made-for-TV movies, but watching this one has, for the time begin at least, restored my faith on how entertaining and compelling they can actually be. First of all, it has WAY more character development that any other Lifetime movie I've ever seen. The filmmakers really seemed to try and take it up a notch, as there was a super fun playfulness that's always missing from most TV films of this type. It was also so refreshing to watch a well written, young conflicted heroine take center stage, instead of the usual middle-aged housewife that's become so common. It has amazing twists and turns you do absolutely do NOT see coming at all, and just when you think it's going to zig, it suddenly ZAGS. I never thought I'd say this, but his film actually raises the bar on Lifetime movies. HIGHLY recommend!!!
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