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Don't listen to the negative reviews

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A 17 year old girl inadvertently gets mixed up in a robbery planned by her boyfriend on the store her mother works in.This lifetime movie isn't ground breaking but it's surprisingly watchable thanks to a good cast and good dialog. Jennifer Grant as the mother is quite good.The lovely pre Vampire Diaries Nina Dobrev takes a role that could have been annoying and makes her quite sympathetic especially when she does some irritating things.It has a lesson about consequences about having the wrong boyfriend. Listen to your Moms girls! Worth a watch.

After applying glossy color to her full lips, 17-year-old high school student Nina Dobrev (as Justine Douglas) meets her 21-year-old blond boyfriend Steve Byers (as Brent) and his wavy-haired brother James Gilbert (as Reggie) for a weird date. The two young men work as automobile mechanics. They rob the jewelry store where Ms. Dobrev's mother Jennifer Grant (as Denise) works as a manager. For some reason, Dobrev is immediately employed as the getaway car lookout, although she has just learned about the crime and acts like a flight risk. Turns out, she can be trusted to go along with the plan... After the robbery, Ms. Grant frets about daughter Dobrev's increasing strange behavior. Grant is the real-life daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. She should worry, because this TV Movie is incredibly dumb. Even worse is the level of responsibility the story allows the daughter to take for her participation in the crime. For what it's worth, Mr. Gilbert does well with his sleazy character and Catherine Mary Stewart is always an attractive police detective.*** My Daughter's Secret (10/7/07) Douglas Jackson ~ Nina Dobrev, Jennifer Grant, Steve Byers, James Gilbert

While this film would almost certainly would have been mediocre regardless of casting, the actress (Jennifer Grant) who plays the mother's emotionless performance was so distracting that I couldn't focus on the rest of the movie. It's rather obvious that she's only getting work because she's the attractive daughter of a Hollywood legend. They may as well have casted a mannequin in the role -- they might have gotten a significantly more emotional performance if they had.The plot itself is typical "daughter accidentally gets herself in trouble" fair. Aside from Statue-face, whose performance was abysmal, the actors were mediocre.

I think it was, you can tell by the horrible everything and the even worse feeling you get when you watch it. It makes me sad that movies like this can make it onto an actual DVD. People are always complaining about the waste humans create in this day and age. They blame auto makers for giant SUV's, they blame Chuck Norris for leaving dead bodies everywhere, they also blame Rosie O'Donnell for constantly farting...but they should also blame people who make movies like this for wasting the plastic it took to make this disc. Also, this makes me wish the abortion age limit was raised. I think it should be set one year older than the director's current age. That way we can kill him and not feel horrible about it. Also, we should bring back the Riptide Rush flavor of Gatorade. That stuff was awesomeness in a bottle.