A Deadly Adoption
  • Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 20, 2015
User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10

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  1. Fenny86
    Jun 21, 2015
    10
    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 successful while at the same time inadvertently aborting her child and turning a blind eye to her husband'sA 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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Metascore
44

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jun 22, 2015
    30
    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.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Joshua Alston
    Jun 22, 2015
    67
    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.
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  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Jun 22, 2015
    40
    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.
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