Starring: Morris Chestnut,Regina Hall,Theo Rossi,Sue-Lynn Ansari,Glenn Morshower,Jaz Sinclair,Tom Nowicki,Shona Gastian,Christina Bach. In the movie When The Bough Breaks, which targets black audiences, a surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father. n/A John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. When The Bough Breaks Release Date: September 16, 2016.
(This edict curiously turns out to be news to the hotshot lawyer. Watch When the Bough Breaks 2016 HD Full Movie. People who like When The Bough Breaks (2016 Movie) Chelsea Douglas chelseadouglas. In short order, though, the manipulative Anna moves forward with her and Mike’s pre-planned scheme, which will combine greed, extortion and a kind of in-utero “hostage” situation fueled, as we will later learn, by a surrogate mother’s legal claim to ownership of the baby she’s carrying until she gives up that right. Despite that and a few other early warning signs, the Taylors, especially the eager Laura, embrace Anna and the baby-making begins. John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall) are an upscale New Orleans couple - he’s a hotshot lawyer, she’s a hotshot chef - whose inability to conceive a child together leads them to hire the attractive, young Anna (Jaz Sinclair) as a surrogate mother.īut Anna, sweet and humble though she first seems, has a questionable boyfriend, Mike (Theo Rossi), who gives John and Laura pause. Cross “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” with “Fatal Attraction,” then subtract some of those films’ visceral, iconic tension and you have something akin to “When the Bough Breaks,” a serviceable domestic thriller that’s not quite the well-oiled machine that it could be.