The two stars try their best in one-dimensional roles, and they deserve better. Hall’s Laura is a traveling chef or something, and she really wants to start a family. Morris Chestnut’s John is an ambitious lawyer who loves his wife and doesn’t want to cheat. The writing’s basic from first-time writer Jack Olsen. You’ve seen every twist and turn before and it unfolds in an unsurprising way. Unfortunately, that’s where any originality begins and ends. It becomes a stranger situation because she has their baby in utero and it threatens to become a hostage situation – legally, it’s her baby – so that’s a way it offers a fresh turn on the Fatal Attraction plot. This whole situation could be avoided if he would just tell Laura that Anna’s being a creep and trying to seduce him. She asks inappropriate questions but of course, John doesn’t say anything.
After moving into their guest house, she eventually becomes obsessed with John and interferes with his personal and professional life. They find the seemingly perfect candidate in Anna Walsh (Jaz Sinclair). John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) have realized they can’t have a baby after Laura’s had three miscarriages, so they decide to hire a surrogate mother. When the Bough Breaks, Screen Gems’ third September thriller with stalker, manages to be almost memorable because it’s so awful and such a poorly executed Fatal Attraction knockoff.
Starring: Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Jaz Sinclair.