Mommy's Little Girl

Sadie Connell grew up under her strict, heartless grandmother Elana and they're hiding a secret. Elana's son had died ten years earlier. After three years sober with a better life, Sadie's mother Theresa Malcolms (Fiona Gubelmann) has come to take her back. She moves in with Theresa and Aaron Myers with Aaron's angry teenage son Josh.

This is a Lifetime movie. Creepy little girls can be effective in horrors. That's what this movie should aim for but it's a Lifetime movie. It doesn't know how. It's trying to be a thriller but this doesn't have thrills. It's functional and I like the final conflict. The little girl is pretty good. Nevertheless, this is not good enough.