Not able to have a baby of their own, Tim (Sean Astin) and Cheryl (Samaire Armstrong) adopt a baby named Mona. The child was taken away from her parents and they weren't too happy about it. Her dad, Kevin (Brendan Fehr) shot a social worker over it. But since the social worker broke into his property to soothe the screaming baby, he got out of the charges pretty easily.
On Mona's first birthday Kevin approaches the family in the park and although he doesn't make any threats, makes it quite clear that he is intent on getting Mona back. He starts to stalk the family to the point where Tim creates a panic room and buys a gun. The police are absolutely no help because he hasn't made any actual threats yet. And the only one that seems sympathetic is their social worker Fay (Monet Mazur) but she too does nothing. Maybe that's because Fay is Mona's biological mother and she is helping Kevin to get their daughter back.
This movie just annoyed me because it seemed way to easy for these people to try and get their daughter back. I'm pretty sure if you shot and killed anyone you'd be in jail for more than a few months. And then why wouldn't they run background checks on their social workers to make sure they weren't crazy bitches. Plus at one point Kevin escapes the trunk of a car that exploded. You're not a super villain so why won't you just die? Then to top things off at the end of the movie they have a 4-5 year old playing a 2 year old. Geeeez. Biggest two year old I've ever seen. Don't even get me started on the car seat they were too cheap to buy. They would always show them going to the car but never the car seat. Maybe I'm just crazy but all the little details were bothering me.
Rating: **
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