The Stepmother

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J A Aug 31 Dull and boring, acting sucked follows the same basic steps as all the other lifetime movies. See more Cj M 12/29/2024 I give it a full 87 it was amazing See more Gleanda J 06/04/2024 I need more if being honest not Good acting but still good and entertaining and loving See more 12/28/2022 Boring and predictable. They also use the words babe and sorry way to many times. See more 07/02/2022 Imagine if someone made The Stepfather but reversed genders and races and hey -- we have a Tubi original! Directed by Chris Stokes (House Party 4, You Got Served) and co-written with Marques Houston, who plays Eddie, The Stepmother finds Zooey (Erica Menda, Love & Hip Hop New York) as the titular black widow stepmother who moves from husband to husband, family to family. She now has not only a new husband, but a new stepson in Scott (Justin Sweat, son of Keith; this movie is filled with R&B people as Stokes once managed B2K). There's a scene in the beginning where Scott is sitting with his parents after a graduation party and his mom April (Tanee McCall) yells that it's time for a dance battle, which she wins, only to have a seizure and die. This should be one of the most dramatic scenes in the movie, but either through bad directing, worse acting or the fact that I am someone who laughs at inappropriate things -- perhaps a cocktail of the three? -- I laughed like an absolute maniac. If you love reality TV, Cynthia Bailey from Real Housewives of Atlanta is in this as Vanessa. She was on that show with Sweat's mother, Lisa Wu. I wanted to love this movie. Unlike so many of the Tubi originals, it never decides to just go for it and be total trash and that makes it just mediocre and boring. See more 06/23/2022 First, I would like to say NOT everyone was bad acting. Erica Mena did okay for her first time as the lead, secondly, as expected Marcus Huston did good. Thirdly Chris Stokes daughter did Good. Now, who was Bad bad actor Cynthia Bailey, her acting was awful as well as the guy playing the son of Marcus Huston in the movie. Now, to get to real thing that what was so wrong with the movie and it wasn't the director even though he could have corrected most things.. KEY THINGS was as follow, the SCRIPT being The NUMBER 1 issue. Bad writing awful movie! Why was so many things happening that didn't make sense or fit the scenes or plot? As a writer and script consultant, its clear that the writer forced things to move the scenes that didn't happen organically, those are key elements for the making of a bad movie, then the casting, wardrobe and scoring are next three things that was BAD. Some of the characters didn't fit the role, Cynthia, was one that didn't fit with her partner in the movie. Alot of roles just did fit the character or cast of the film as a whole. Wardrobe in the scenes didn't make sense mostly all the characters wasn't either dressed right for scenes or role combined with film. Example: Cynthia, was glammed up wig and makeup as if she was doing a confessional on the Rhoa. It just was all wrong for the role. And I can go on but I won't you will have to see for yourself. The last thing was scoring of the film was horrible the sound levels, music selection and timing throughout just wrong 🤦🏾‍♀️ to sum it up in a nut shell it lacked suspense, a real plot the make sense. See more Read all reviews

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