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There's going to be nothing that justifies the villain for me. Tired of nutjob grandmas. This one's justification is that her DIL hates her so much that she killed her son to make granny suffer. Seriously? That's what we're going with? Of course grandma kidnaps her granddaughter, drugs her, and all of this makes sense in her mind. Grandma's act is so bad. By the end scene, I'm sick of her and want to wipe that smirk off her face. Usually when a movie is about family secrets, the use of flashbacks adds context. It would have made sense for the movie to show flashbacks to Scott's childhood from the POV of granny where she was the perfect mom to her perfect little boy. Then when they got to the "reveal" of what his true childhood was, they could have used flashbacks and voiceovers to show how it really was. Like a visual of a shattered reality grandma made up for herself. The father's scenes were so brief in the beginning that the movie didn't set any of that up. Everything we know is from the pov of the mother and grandmother, so we never hear what he really feels about his mother.

Once granny finds out the truth about her son's death, she just compounds her crimes and now wants to murder her grandchild. She goes from a possibly grieving mom to petty and vindictive. I can't with this movie. Why are bathtub scenes so popular?

Mom and daughter look like sisters, which happens often on Lifetime. Also, is Uncle Steve really "Uncle Steve?" He's coming off more like a love interest than mom's brother.

Skip this one.

As a child, little Scotty Taylor suffered abuse from his father Owen. There was a compensating factor from his smother mother, Helen. Yet twelve-year-old Scotty still chose to run away from home at the death of his abusive father. Was the controlling Helen the main impetus for the child's attempt to escape from an oppressive existence?

Fast forward to the present and the unfortunate death of the adult Scott Taylor in a family boating accident accompanied by his wife Melanie and daughter Gabby. Scott allowed Gabby to take the wheel, and, when she shifted into high gear, Scott went overboard, hit his head on the side of the boat, and drowned.

Guilt ridden from the experience, young Gabby stops studying, drops out of debate team, and refuses to talk with her bestie Danielle or her sometime boyfriend Jason. She also shuts her caring mom out of her life. On a lark, Gabby phones her Granny Helen, asking for a ride to the beloved Taylor family cabin. When Granny Helen picks her up, Gabby is unaware that she will be abused, tormented, and nearly murdered by her psycho granny.

The filmmakers moved the action along at a lively pace and sustained interest due to the intriguing past of the dysfunctional Taylor family. The secrets are slowly uncovered, and the truth about Scotty's past was conveyed by the mentally unhinged Granny Helen. One of the most maudlin lines was spoken by Granny to Melanie in fondly recalling her dear Scotty: "He loved to swim in the lake. I never thought that he would lose his life in the water."

Inevitably, the film comes down to a frightful experience in water for young Gabby, but not in the lake where Gabby had a lapse in judgment in shifting into high gear. Rather, the fateful moments will occur in the mundane experience of a bathtub!