The Movies Based On True Stories Archives speculates that producers wove together two different true stories as the basis for A Deadly Adoption: one that included a pregnant woman who was arrested for wearing a prosthetic stomach while defrauding an innocent couple who wanted to adopt her child. The film aired on the Lifetime Network on June 20, 2015. Lifetime fans flooded social media pages with questions like: "Is this for real" and "What the hell is Will Ferrell doing in a Lifetime movie? Share Share Tweet Email 0 A distanced couple decide to take in a seemingly innocent pregnant woman in hopes of adopting her unborn child. At first glance, "A Deadly Adoption" appears to be a straightforward drama about a couple (Ferrell and Wiig) hoping to adopt a baby from an expectant young woman, played by Jessica Lowndes. Six Months Later. Lifetime has done a series of movies that were based on or inspired by true stories over the years related to the theme of adoption, such as Adopting Terror, a 2012 TV movie about a couple who adopted a child, but whose biological father returned to demand the baby back, and Baby For Sale, a 2004 true story based on a couple who went undercover to help expose a baby selling scheme to unsuspecting couples who had hopes for adopting a child. It's been two days since A Deadly Adoption premiered, and we still can't stop talking about all the crazy that went down (check out Anna's list of the 15 craziest moments here). These stories are supposed to help you decide if adoption is the right fit for you and your… When you begin the adoption process, you hear all kind of horror stories. Many of the ads and official summaries of A Deadly Adoption say it's based on a true story, but that claim might be part of the humor of it all. … ", "I still don't get why Ferrell and Wiig are in this movie'. ", "I'm sorry but it's strange with Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig playing serious roles. A distanced couple decide to take in a seemingly innocent pregnant woman in hopes of adopting her unborn child. Drama ensues in what I hope is the all best ways possible. 2021 Bustle Digital Group. This is … Take your pick. "After she is released from a mental hospital, a woman obsessed with romance novels takes a job as a nanny to a handsome widower -- and will kill anyone who stands in the way of her becoming his wife." There was all sorts of speculation about whether this was a Lifetime television prank or whether it was some sort of a spoof. C oming three years after Casa de mi Padre and a week before The Spoils Before Dying, A Dangerous Adoption suggests that Will Ferrell and his sometime … A Deadly Adoption could had gone for the parody route like Scary Movie, Austin Powers or Naked Gun films. Maybe Lowndes' character in A Deadly Adoption will have known Ferrell from somewhere else first. Last year, Wiig, Ferrell, and the movie's screenwriter Andrew Steele (a former SNL writer) collaborated on IFC's miniseries parody The Spoils of Babylon. The movie — “inspired by a true story,” we were told at the end — featured them as a couple who take the birth mother of the child they hope to … So how many dark secrets will be hidden in A Deadly Adoption? Movie Info Things go awry when an author (Will Ferrell) and his wife (Kristen Wiig) welcome a pregnant woman (Jessica Lowndes) into their home, with plans to adopt her baby. While neither Lifetime, Wiig, nor Ferrell have come right out to say the movie is a parody, many media outlets like Variety have assumed A Deadly Adoption must have a humorous edge. FATAL ATTRACTION, THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, THE CRUSH, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, etc. I can't wait to see Wiig and Ferrell unravel them all. For the last several weeks leading up to the movie, many Lifetime viewers couldn't believe that comedians Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig would be appearing in the movie. She gets framed for the murder of the kids' mother – and she happens to be having an affair with their father (Stephen Collins) as well. TV-14 | 1h 24min | Drama, Thriller | TV Movie 20 June 2015. Written by Andrew Steele (who also worked on “Spoils of Babylon”) and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, “A Deadly Adoption” certainly looks like it would fit right in on Lifetime. Well, of course it ends with a “Six Months Later” scene — the family is reunited, … The other angle most likely included a true story about a husband who strangled his pregnant … Yep, that's … It seems ripe for parody... Perhaps someone in A Deadly Adoption will like romance novels? This 2007 Lifetime thriller is very, very similar to A Deadly Adoption, right down to the pregnant woman who moves in with a couple during — yup — her last trimester. It stars Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Jessica Lowndes. ... wait, is that girl... is that... BRIDGET? With intentions to adopt her child, the couple found themselves accused of her murder. A Deadly Adoption - which is supposedly inspired by a true story (probably in the same way Fargo was) - premieres June 20th, 2015 on Lifetime. A mom hires a nanny to watch her daughter as she returns to work, but when her daughter vanishes, the nanny's dark secrets are revealed. Before she starred in Felicity and The Americans, Keri Russell played a babysitter in this 1996 TV movie. All rights reserved. Another sweet couple who can't conceive decide to go with a surrogate who isn't what she seems. The TV movie itself is a tongue-in-cheek parody of the melodramatic goodness Lifetime churns out, and there are plenty of previous movies that A Deadly Adoption could have drawn inspiration from. . 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