Is these a true story movie??.. And whatever happens to the other baby that's not theirs??
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haripamamani17 June 2020
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lavatch23 January 2020"Cradle Swapping" opens with a man named Tony giving a pregnant woman the following order: "Get on the ground and get that thing out!" What follows is a double delivery of two babies that are switched in the hospital by the same repellent man. The film never explains why the babies were left unattended in the hospital nursery, nor how Tony could have waltzed into the room and made the switch.
One must feel compassion for Ray and Alicia, whose own child is exchanged for a child born sick due to the mother's heroin addiction. The character of the wise old grandma is the first to sense that the child brought home was not that of Ray and Alicia. There is also a kind policeman, who is ready to work day and night to recover the couple's baby.
Unfortunately, the film fell apart when Ray and Alicia decide to take matters into their own hands, conduct their own investigation, cut off ties with the police, endanger their own lives, travel from California to New York, illegally enter into the office of the adoption agent, breaking the law in order to recover their baby.
The most improbable scene in the film takes place in Central Park in New York, where Alicia meets with the woman who adopted her baby. It simply made no sense that Mrs. Seymour would be willing to hand the child off like a football to Alicia without going through the formalities of a police and forensic investigation. The film's ending was preposterous.
A better title for the film would have been "Child Swapping in Central Park." -
bufordbox1 December 2018.....but became stupid and stupider as it went along. The couple's decision to do the sleuthing on their own without benefit of police and FBI had no reasonable rationale. And then the newly adoptive mother just hands the baby over on a handshake deal, no talking it over with hubby, no legal proceeding , just "here, take her ....no problem I paid 100,000 dollars to adopt her". Just stupid, stupid, stupid ...prepare to have your intelligence lowered.
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mickjohnston20 August 2020Seems to go from listening to the baby cry, then the mother joins in and takes over, then back to baby again. If you like the sound of crying you'll love this film.
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mikgee27 May 2020If you can get through even 20 minutes of this without wanting to smash your tv then you deserve a medal.the acting is dreadful and intensely annoying.I don't normally write reviews but just to save people's sanity avoid this at all costs!!
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So babies get swapped. They were born on the same day, same hospital.
When the dumb main couple take the baby to the hospital surely there would have been blood tests and then the discovery that the baby is not theirs. Apparently not.
It takes a grandmother who doesn't look like any of her daughters and the hysterical nut job mother to have a premonition about footprints to get the hospital to dig deeper.
Even dumber are the police and the hospital security. Police oh don't worry wait till someone recognises the baby robbers. Stupid.
Also there is only one doctor in the hospital who has no badge and uses a magnifying glass to identify the wrong baby. Daft.
Over a month after the swap dumb dad remembers what was written on the shirt of one of the baby robbers yet he couldn't remember the hospital taking baby footprints. -
carolynocean11 February 2021OK let me start by saying that i did not bother to stick with this rubbish to the end , I really could not not have cared less !
The acting was probably THE worst that i have seen in a while.
The parents should should have been given a sedative from the beginning, and as for the hospital staff and police , words fail me !
Do not waste your time watching this really awful film.
An insult to anybody's intelligence! -
denisedrriopel15 January 2020At home with a flu - that stupid movie was on. The beginning was interesting but it turns out Completely unrealistic. The couple making all the moves to identify the Criminals and the adopting parents - and the adoptive mother just giving back the baby like that... no police . Come on!!! Stupid movie.
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A tale of baby swapping at a California hospital brings us to illegal adoption agencies, murder, heartbreak and a Nick and Nora Charles like characters.
Our nice husband,a young Andrew Cuomo look-like, shows how he can turn on his wife when it's believed that drugs that she was taking prior to her pregnancy, brought about a sick child. We have the doting grandmother who insists that the girl doesn't look like her side of the family. When our wonderful mother feels that something is wrong, foot prints and other tests, reveal that their child is not theirs and hospital footage shows swapping taking place, where a drug addicted woman gave birth to a child at the same time and her wicked boyfriend made the change, since the adoption agency that he is planning to sell the child to will not take ailing children.
The film does take a turn when our victimized couple play Nick and Nora and their sleuthing pays off. The scene with the adopted mother is most poignant, especially when she realizes that the couple is telling the truth. -
The main actress has somehow confused emotion for gasping... happiness, sadness, outrage... doesn't matter (insert gasp here)
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dedeurs9 August 2017LifeTime sells its TV movies standard as 'based on a real story'. You know then that you can expect a glittery version of that real story. First of all, it usually revolves about a young handsome couple with Money, and white American of course. The screenwriters also don't shy away from altering facts and even adding fantasy. Cradle Swapping is still a decent film with Amanda Clayton who is quite convincing in her distress over having given birth to a sickly baby girl - she is almost immediately diagnosed with opium withdrawal symptoms - but her mother instinct also warns Amanda that something is altogether not right with her little Hannah. What her mother keeps feeding repeatedly: "She doesn't look like you or Ray at all!" Following tests reveal that Hannah is indeed not the couple's product. What follows is a search after the couple's real baby. The police gets involved, but Amanda and Brandon decide to do the finding on their own. I felt such is unwise, although it (there's a murder too) certainly ads some tensed scenes to the movie. A negative is that their private investigation moves the story into the realm of thriller-fiction. No problem of course (and finally a telly drama without court case scenes!) but it leads inevitably to moments that you think "Nah, I don't believe it happened like this". Okay, I hate babbies. They're all ugly and smelly. Yet I found Cradle Swap quite enjoyable. It's one of the better LifeTime 'true stories'.
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phd_travel4 October 2018A druggie couple's baby is deliberately swapped with a healthy couple's baby. So when the healthy couple bring the baby back they have to deal with the addiction of the baby.
Quite informative about drugs legal and illegal and babies.
Healthy mom is hysterical too much. The search for the baby is diy and quite exciting.
Lifetime movie can educate too! -
ashleyohlinger-9097219 October 2022I like to say some of the reviews I read on this movie isn't correct. For one the movie is not base on people who are actually related so for someone to say the grandmother who doesn't look like her two daughters I wouldn't think they would actually look alike with it being actress/ actors anyone who has a baby should know babies looks can change they can look like one parent then as they age They can start looking like the other parent.. we also know that our looks can change as we age some people are skinny then after some has kids they get bigger and more plump. The dad didn't forget about the foot prints she ask him if he was in there when they did it he said he was there the whole time until he went back to her the mother . They did say they were going to do blood work. It's a movie they are not show every detail of a persons life. Also we all can have flashbacks it's in the back of our heads we don't always think about things that happen around us until we are in a situation and needing to. The movie was based on babies being switch At birth one baby was a drug baby and the mother wasn't able to connect with the baby. How a mother can sense when something isn't right which a grandmother can as well. When the mother held her real baby the baby stop crying because the bond was there. This is something that can happen but doesn't happen very often. I think the movie is good and if you watch it for what it is then you may enjoy it. Not sit there and say this don't happen or this can't Nothing impossible but we wouldn't want to think it could happen or it will happen. We don't know how we would react until we are put in that situation.