Baby Obsession (2018 TV Movie) User Reviews

Not Made For TV? I Don't Believe That!

[Stoshie · 5/10 · 23 December 2018]

As I write this in December 2018, IMDB does not list this as a made for TV movie. I find that hard to believe. It seems like a stereotypical Lifetime movie. They have certain plots and "rules" they follow in just about every movie. This hits a number of them; someone seeking revenge for a years-old wrong done to them (real or imagined), characters doing illogical things, and an ending that happens, too easily, in the last few minutes of the movie. Oh, and the bad guy gets away, because no one pays attention to them after they knock them out or whatever. So the last scene is the bad guy starting the same thing over again somewhere else. Those, along with other elements in the movie, couldn't be more typical of a Lifetime made for TV movie.

Cartel Pictures and The Cartel are listed as the Production Companies, and they also produce many Lifetime movies. Even with the original title of "Baby Obsession", I have to believe IMDB made a mistake, and this is indeed a TV movie. The only thing missing is Tom Berry and/or Pierre David as Executive Producers, since they are responsible for a great many Lifetime movies - though not all of them. This certainly wouldn't have any success as a feature release or even a straight-to-DVD release.

Not one of the better ones

[phd_travel · 5/10 · 11 February 2020]

The cast is second rate even for Lifetime. The story is very deja vu and lacks novelty or subtlety. A nanny who wants the kid and SIDS are the elements of this thriller.

Don't bother.

A predictable made for tv movie

[lisafordeay · 5/10 · 24 February 2024]

Baby Obsession (alternatively Your Baby is Mine)is a 2018 thriller about a new mom named Anna who hires a nanny named Rose to look after her newborn baby. However what Anna doesn't know is that Rose is really Raquel a woman who lost a baby 15 years ago and seeks revenge on Anna as she minded Raquel's baby who died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and blames Anna for Violet's(the name of the baby) death.

Will Anna save her baby Sarah Joy from the psychotic Raquel?. Overall it was a very predicable movie as I knew from the start what was going to happen. If you like silly over the top thrillers then check this one out.

Available on Amazon Prime.

Baby looks older

[mamafive43 · 13 June 2020]

That baby at birth looked like she was 4 months old.

The hand that rocks the cradle again

[jonsid57 · 7/10 · 22 August 2021]

A good simple enjoyable thriller very similar to films like The hand that rocks the cradle and Scorned . A women who loses her daughter and feels wronged plans to takes revenge on the lady she believed wronged her so she can get her baby . She attempts to dispose of people in her way too. The film holds you .

Dueling Doulas

[lavatch · 7/10 · 10 May 2023]

Raquel Blackwell has changed her name to Rose Carr. She is intent on becoming the doula to a specific family. She uses her vehicle to kill the doula first assigned to the Grays. Then, she uses a rock to kill the receptionist she bribed at the birthing center.

Anna Gray and her loving husband Jon welcome a new baby into the world, sweet little Sarah Joy. The Gray family will be on the receiving end of Raquel's services as a doula. But Raquel has her sights set on abducting little Sarah Joy as a replacement for her daughter Violet, who died in an accidental crib death while young Anna was on duty as the babysitter.

The only question is how slow will Anna and Jon be in recognizing Raquel's evil intentions. The answer is: glacially slow. Even Anna's bestie Jane recognizes Raquel as a fraud from the first meeting. Jane then pays the price by getting clocked in the head by a tire iron. Let's hope that Jane likes hospital food.

While the film was a by-the-numbers doula drama, the performances were excellent. Even such secondary characters as Chris, the kind ex-husband of Raquel, were vividly portrayed. The filmmakers left the door open for a possible sequel as Raquel takes her act to a new town, a new home, and a new baby. By the end of the film it is easy to recognize that she is no shrinking violet.

Not good at all

[CranberriAppl · 4 November 2021]

It was so not worth watching that I don't feel like writing much about it. Your run-of-the-mill soap opera revenge/baby stealing storyline is better than this. So much overacting and and nonsensical scenes. Things escalated so quickly that it makes no sense that she wasn't fired.

I found it kind of hard to believe that Anna had so much guilt about the incident and yet didn't remember nor recognize Rachel. Rachel also doesn't come off as mentally ill, just deranged and vengeful, so what exactly was her plan for the baby? Giving Rachel a body count just removes any sympathy the viewer might have for her. She's also only been in their lives for a week, but managed to kill three people and injure two more? It's so over the top.

I thought it was so pointless and wrong that the last death happened, but Rachel got away. Tired of villains who escape.

I actually first got curious about this movie when the last scene recorded on my dvr before another movie. The last scene makes zero sense. The entire movie is a revenge movie, so why would Rachel be written as moving on to another family?

Familiar Faces Stuck with Overdone Plots and Twists

[fertilizer001 · 9 December 2018]

I am not a viewer of Lifetime films. The only reason for me to go through them from time to time is because of the actors I've known from daytime television. Is this movie groundbreaking, inspiring, heartbreaking or touching? The answer is none of them. Projects like this one are only a way to get paycheque in order for these actors to support their families. Nothing more. Luckily, "Baby Obsession" (aka Your Baby is Mine) is passable to this audience thanks to the satisfactory interpretations of female lead and antagonist. I am glad that Linsey play the good girl, a protective and strong mother, and not the typical psychopath or victim unlike the other two lifetime films which she has done recently. Perhaps that explains why her acting isn't onenote and OTT here. I am also relieved that Alicia is able to make her character somewhat sympathetic, not the stereotypical villain which I would expect from Lifetime.