Stolen Innocence (2007 TV Movie) User Reviews (11)

Entertaining, but Hard to Believe

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 5 January 2011]

The pregnant Jenna Davis (Gina Phillips) is a workaholic worker of an advertisement agency near to give birth that has just been promoted to vice-president by her boss. Jenna is stressed and her doctor finds that her pressure is high; so he suggests her to call a nurse to help her. The nurse Lynn Mallory (Ellie Harvie) comes to her house and gives some pills to Jenna that sleeps. When she awakes in the hospital, she learns that she has delivered a stillborn baby girl that has been accidentally cremated. Jenna calls the baby's father Tom Robbins (Warren Christie) that lives in another town to give support to her. When Detective Dana Hoch (Anna Galvin), who is in charge of the investigation, believes that Jenna has killed the baby to keep her job position, Jenna and Tom decide to investigate the incident and find what has really happened with their daughter.

"Stolen Innocence" is an entertaining TV movie, but with a story hard to believe. Gina Phillips is histrionic and annoying in many scenes and does not make a believable mother. The facility that they break in the adoption agency is unconvincing and the behavior of the police staff is too stupid, considering that they were dealing with a vice-president of a company meaning a well-prepared woman that could have a skilled attorney to advise her and support her allegations. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Inocência Roubada" ("Stolen Innocence")

Why??

[doycesub · 5/10 · 9 December 2016]

I enjoyed the movie for the most part though the story really isn't that believable. I kept wondering why the police didn't make the same effort as the Jena character to investigate when they had a lot of suspicious activity and claims connected with this 'child death". I thought that much of the findings were too easily found for the police not to really do anything but say "I'll see what I can do." The fake nurse was identified to the police, why did it take so long and why did the victim have to solve the crimes that were being committed. Oh, well, such is Hollywood in the movie world. I guess the real police don't always do the obvious either.

Bad acting, bad story, bad dialogue

[mette-34 · 1/10 · 8 June 2012]

I hardly know where to start with what bothers me about this TV movie.

Perhaps the fact that woman who has just lost her baby under extreme circumstances go to work the next day, looking like a million dollars. Walks about with perfect hair and make-up, not in mourning in any way.

Maybe it is the fact that NO-ONE believes her story although 1) she can prove she had a fake nurse coming to see her at the time of the birth 2) she had drugs in her system 3) she can identify the nurse and does so in front of a police officer.

Maybe it is the fact that everyone is so dumb and everything is spelled out and over explained as in "I had a strange woman visit me right before I passed out and gave birth - there must be a connection - what if she had something to do with this?" or "She gave me some vitamins and now they're gone - what if she used those to drug me?" NO S*** SHERLOCK!

Maybe it is the brain dead dialogue: "I am sure we will get through this" - "Oh, did you take a course on how to say all the right things?" - and it was NOT ironic! I could go on. Anyways - if you want to waste 1½ hours on crappy, naive and kliché dialogue, and unbelievable story line, Hollywood styling, and bad acting, you are in for treat.

Interesting mystery

[vchimpanzee · 18 May 2010]

Jenna is two weeks away from giving birth. Her doctor is concerned about her high blood pressure, but Jenna has a stressful job at an advertising agency; furthermore, she gets a promotion even though she will be on maternity leave just briefly. But Jenna handles stress well, or seems to. She doesn't seem to be bothered by anything. Although she wonders out loud how she will be able to handle work AND a baby.

Still, Jenna agrees when her doctor offers to send her a nurse. She gets a phone call from Lynne, who comes over and checks her out, giving her what she says are vitamins.

Jenna has a weird dream. First everything is blue, then someone seems to be taking away her baby and she is pleading for them not to.

In the hospital, Jenna is told about what can be done for those who have lost a baby. Wait ... it wasn't a dream? Or was it? Worse yet, no one has ever heard of the nurse who came to Jenna's house.

Tom, the baby's father, shows up. He got worried when he didn't hear from Jenna for several days. It turns out she moved when she got this exciting new job opportunity, and while she didn't know yet, she was already pregnant. Tom didn't want to move, so the two separated but remained in contact.

The police investigate the baby's death, and while there is supposed to be an autopsy, there is some sort of mistake, and Jenna is told the baby was cremated. But that's not all. Jenna is a suspect in the baby's murder!

Jenna and Tom do some investigating. Jenna is too distraught by what has happened to be effective at work, so her company lets her take some time off. Could someone at work be responsible? Is it not true she said she didn't know how she could handle a baby too? If the baby was unwanted, does that not give her motive?

Jenna makes a discovery about a similar case at her hospital, and with some incredible luck and further investigation that involves breaking numerous laws, she and Tom finally figure out what may have happened. They'd better: she's still a suspect and things are not looking good.

What if the baby is alive? The movie's title pretty much gives that part away.

This is pretty good. I won't say there are outstanding performances, but if you enjoy watching people scheming and getting in trouble with the law investigating injustice, this movie just may be for you.

Jenna and Tom both have many obstacles to overcome, but even when things appear hopeless, they don't give up.

It's actually worth seeing.

Not believable

[mzefabulous · 1/10 · 25 November 2021]

The remark the husband said after him and his wife found the lady who was once pregnant was appalling. It was a mobile home park, when they pulled up he looked at the lady's home, said some appalling remarks about the home and then said, but the truck is nice tho. He wanted her help but insulted her place of residence. Many of LMN and Lifetime movies never make much logical sense anyway.

Silly

[mzefabulous · 1/10 · 25 November 2021]

Why the people on Lifetime and LMN always tries to do the police job and go after the bad people themselves, even the teenagers? Which makes the movie so unbelievable.

Enjoyable unless you want suspense

[mikesc60 · 7/10 · 22 October 2014]

For some reason, when I saw this film, it was called 'Stolen Innocence'.

I found this a very watchable and an enjoyable film, very suitable for family viewing although it probably would not interest younger children, but I think the tag 'thriller' is misleading. From the beginning, each stage of the plot's development is easy to predict and the main part of the final outcome is pretty obvious from very early on. There are the usual coincidences and lucky breaks when in normal circumstances things would go quite differently, but this is pretty normal in detective type films or by and large the mysteries would never be solved! For me this did not really detract from the enjoyment, but if you are looking to be on the edge of your seat with suspense, you should look elsewhere! Finally a personal gripe: as usual with many films, some of the dialogue is lost occasionally when the diction is not clear; but what can you expect unless you want characters to speak less naturally (perhaps like newsreaders) - and I am British which doesn't help with an American film! This is no worse an issue with this film than with many others.

Seems very happy considering

[smilerjen84 · 7/10 · 11 December 2018]

The movie was good the story was interesting but only thing that got me was the fact that Jenna didn't seem like a greaving mother at all, it looked like she was always smiling. Other than that I enjoyed the movie

A Story of Bravery...

[gurlygurl08 · 8/10 · 18 February 2008]

I really enjoyed this title because, it shows of the courage a young woman has to get her baby back after being "stillborn" or yet stolen by a nurse claiming to work for the hospital. Gina Phillips does a marvelous job of playing the young woman Jenna Davis and she really brings out her role in this movie. I think this movie is a lot like the movie "Empty Cradle" because, of the young woman Jane Morgan giving birth to her baby in the hospital and told it was dead although she felt the baby's heartbeat on the way to the hospital. She as well as Gina Phillips discover the truth behind the births of their babies and discover a way to find their babies. A Very good story of Bravery and worth watching!

a story of conspiracy

[zimbo_the_donkey_boy · 2 May 2010]

For those who enjoy conspiracy movies, this one features pretty much everyone, the police, the medical staffers, everyone you see, except for the pregnant gal herself, believing she didn't end up the mother she'd expected to be. It had even you and I questioning the facts. Oh no, I was in on the conspiracy, too!

It is creative. It's nice to see a film that's different than others I've seen. But, man, it got annoying after awhile that EVERYONE, time after time, figured the main character was in the wrong and wouldn't even look into the crooks' details & actions, forcing the heroine to do her own detective work. If people really end up having to be their own police, why is it that I have to pay so many state & local taxes?

A Mother's True Instinct Is Never Wrong

[lavatch · 8/10 · 22 December 2020]

There is a defining moment in "May Baby is Missing" in which Jenna Davis sees a baby and intuitively recognizes that it is her little Madeleine who was stolen from her. She then collects her evidence and defiantly tells the incompetent police, "I want my baby!!!"

The film unfolded a diabolical scheme in human trafficking when Nicole Parker passes herself off as a prenatal care nurse, pays a visit to Jenna's house, drugs the very pregnant Jenna, induces labor, and steals her baby.

Much of the narrative involves Jenna and the father of the child, Tom Robbins, fending off the police, who wish to charge Jenna with homicide! The caliber of investigative work turned in by the police reaches a new low in this film. But the quick-thinking Tom notices in a video recording that the license plate of Nicole Parker was captured on camera. That is the first step that leads the two sleuths to discover the truth about Jenna's kidnapped baby.

There was a loose plot strand in the film that never disclosed how Nicole Parker, using the alias Lynne Mallory, was able to show up at Jenna's home after she called the prenatal care center recommended to her by Dr. Morris. It appeared as though the head of the center was a confederate of Nicole and, in one brief scene, she was seen caring for the kidnapped baby until it could be sold by nefarious creature Dolan Severs. Maggie, the head of the prenatal care center, should have been arrested along with Dolan Severs and Nicole Parker.

After Jenna's ordeal, there was a touching reunion of mother and daughter, as Jenna decides to "get her priorities straight" by taking time away from her high-pressure job as VP of Klein-Walters Advertising. Tom also will quit his job to help raise the new baby. When it comes to finances, the couple's brilliant solution is as follows: "We'll figure it out!"