A Deadly Adoption: Season 1

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Lifetime | Season Premiere Date: June 20, 2015

Summary: A couple (Will Ferrell and Kristen Whig) seek to adopt a baby from a young woman (Jessica Lowndes).

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Joshua Alston

Jun 22, 2015

Everything about Adoption is right visually, and Ferrell and Wiig are close enough to where they should be tonally, but it’s all a bit too earnest. Ferrell and Wiig’s performances are a bit too nuanced, as if they’re afraid pushing it any harder would tilt the film from homage to parody. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jun 22, 2015

The sendup never came, and once you accepted that Mr. Ferrell and Ms. Wiig were playing it straight, you also realized that the movie wasn’t very good even by Lifetime standards, which are not exactly lofty. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Jun 22, 2015

Beyond Ferrell, Wiig and company’s superficial assurance at keeping the one-joke premise going (right up to a climactic musical number that elicits a chuckle or two), the film feels disconnected and utterly disposable. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jun 22, 2015

Mostly, the experience is a head-scratcher all around. Because even by the undemanding standards evoked by the traditional image of Lifetime movies, the only deadly thing about this Adoption is just how dull it was. Read full review

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Fenny86

Jun 21, 2015

A movie that moments of deeply profound poignancy, passion, and beauty. Ferell's performance moved me to tears with his subtle emotion and genuine delivery. Wiig developed her character's role through her emphatic naivete. She makes the character believable; being wealthy and successfulA movie that moments of deeply profound poignancy, passion, and beauty. Ferell's performance moved me to tears with his subtle emotion and genuine delivery. Wiig developed her character's role through her emphatic naivete. She makes the character believable; being wealthy and successful while at the same time inadvertently aborting her child and turning a blind eye to her husband's extramarital engagements. This film was writtne well; not a single trope one might expect from a Lifetime movie.

Probably one of the best, if not the best dramatic film, besting the likes of Schindler's List, Gone with the Wind, and the Godfather. The emotions are so raw, powerful, and lasting.… Expand

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 20, 2015
- No episode information is currently available for this season