WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS is a thriller about what happens when a married couple uses a young surrogate mother to carry their baby, and the woman turns out to be unstable and dangerous, if not psychotic.
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(PaPa, HH, Ro, BB, Fe, LLL, VV, SS, NN, A, DD, MMM) Strong mixed pagan worldview with people taking matters of life and death into their own hands and believing sometimes that anything is worth the end goal, with humanist elements where people take matters into their own hands by finding solutions in science rather than faith, some light Romantic ideals where emotions and personal needs are above logic and law and faith, but some strong moral elements that include married couple are committed to one another, they invite young surrogate mother carrying their baby to live in their home to protect her from violent boyfriend, and there are consequences for wrong behavior, plus some feminist elements where references to female empowerment are used to justify immoral actions 16 obscenities, four strong profanities and nine light profanities, plus a brief moment of seeing a pregnant woman’s water breaking strong intense violence with some blood includes multiple scenes of characters attacked with knives or blunt objects, a character is thrown down the stairs, allusions to sexual abuse, homicide, police photos of dead bodies, image of a decaying bloody corpse, scenes where characters are threatened, and other characters saying “I will kill her,” a character has bruises on her face from off screen domestic battery, it’s implied a character intentionally cuts herself somewhere with a razor blade, and blood drips into a tub, but she appears physically fine afterwards, a mutilated cat is placed into an empty baby crib as a mean prank, character shoots a shotgun at other characters, a character is violently and intentionally hit by a car partially depicted sex scene between husband and wife, other sensual scenes between husband and wife, sensual kissing, surrogate mother constantly tries to seduce/proposition married man, married man’s wife tells him to pretend he loves surrogate mother for fear she might harm their baby, and he kisses her in a couple scenes, characters discuss the morality of asking out a younger woman, a character claims an affair with derogatory references to sex, and references to “going all the way” on a first date partial upper female nudity from the side when a woman disrobes in front of married man to entice him, but nothing happens then, and nude woman goes swimming so there’s rear nudity from a distance, plus scenes with female cleavage light alcohol use one instance of smoking and, morally relevant/questionable content such as the morality of having a surrogate mother for a baby, blackmail, lying, keeping secrets, revenge, and moral relativism that includes the heroes justifying adultery, murder and illegal acts.
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The positive elements in WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS can’t make up for the movie’s larger problem of the ends justifying means, in a story full of violent acts, scenes of seduction and some foul language. Soon, John and Laura are justifying actions such as adultery, kidnapping and murder in order to get their baby. However, when Anna becomes dangerously obsessed, John and Laura do morally questionable things. At first John and Laura seem like victims, and it’s refreshing to see the depiction of a strong, loving marriage on screen.
Also, the storyline is predictable, and the characters are one-dimensional. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS is overly melodramatic. As Anna’s violent, disturbed past is revealed, John and Laura do whatever’s necessary to get rid of Anna while keeping their baby alive. This leads to a deadly psychological game.
They hire supposedly innocent, young Anna to be a surrogate for their child, but she develops a dangerous obsession for John.
WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS follows John and Laura, a happily married couple, who’ve been successful at everything except having a baby.