Dying for A Daughter (2020)

Dying for A Daughter (2020) 
a.k.a. A Mother's Secret
Director: Fred Olen Ray
== Plot ==
Samantha Roberts is a hard-working woman who struggles to maintain her family life with her husband Tom and her 10-year-old adopted daughter Cassie. Things get worse when Cassie is injured in a car accident, and a nurse named Margaret Smith helps save Cassie's life in the operating room. However, Margaret quickly develops an obsession with Cassie, after looking at a chart which she believes contains information that Cassie is her long-lost daughter that she was forced to give up a long time ago, and grows a desire to get Cassie back by any means necessary.
To do this, Margaret comes into the Roberts' lives by posing as a live-in nurse named Rebecca Taylor. Not recognizing Margaret as the one who saved Cassie's life at the hospital, Samantha and Tom hire Margaret as their live-in nurse. Immediately, Margaret begins enacting dozens of schemes to undermine Samantha and take Cassie, including sabotaging Samantha's pain medication, flirting with Tom to strain his and Samantha's marriage, and later attempting to kill Samantha by giving her tea laced with soy milk, which Samantha is allergic to, though Samantha is saved by Tom in time. When Samantha speaks about her frustrations to her work assistant named Karen, Karen decides to investigate "Rebecca's" history, learning her true identity as Margaret Smith and also learning Rebecca Taylor's true self as a nurse who worked for 50 years. Karen attempts to expose this to Samantha, but Margaret kills Karen before she can do so. Later, a social worker named Mrs. Bateman meets with Margaret and demands her to let her see Rebecca Taylor, only for Margaret to kill Mrs. Bateman as well. Continuing her scheming, Margaret drugs both Tom and Samantha, deletes Samantha's phone messages, and takes Cassie to a restaurant, where she reveals her past that she was forced to give up her daughter. However, unknown to her, Margaret's schemes start to be exposed when Detective Sullivan learns about Karen's death and reveals it to Samantha.
As Samantha learns that Margaret is responsible for all the bad experiences she recently had, she is confronted at her house by Margaret, who reveals her desires to kill Samantha and take Cassie and Tom for herself, continuing to believe Cassie is her daughter. Samantha reveals, however, that Cassie's actual mother was a young French woman, and tries to offer Margaret some help, but Margaret angrily refuses to listen to Samantha's words and prepares to kill her, while intending to stage her crime as a suicide committed by Samantha out of heartbreak that Tom apparently loved Margaret more than Samantha. Just as Margaret is about to shoot Samantha, she is caught in the act by Cassie, allowing Samantha to attack Margaret and disarm her. An enraged Margaret viciously beats Samantha up and attempts to choke her to death, unwittingly revealing her true vicious nature in front of Cassie, who sees the dropped gun and gives it to Samantha, allowing her to shoot Margaret in the chest, killing her.
Samantha, Tom and Cassie reunite with each other as the police prepare to take Margaret's body away and Detective Sullivan explains her crimes to them. While the family is relieved that the ordeal is over and that Margaret is dead, they are left wondering what caused Margaret to believe that Cassie was her daughter, a belief that drove Margaret to commit terrible acts and ultimately end up gaining nothing but her own death.
== Male Deaths ==
None.
== Female Deaths ==
*Karina Segura [Karen]:
* Jill Adler [Mrs Bateman]:
* Brittany Underwood [Margaret]:
== Gallery ==
File:Brittany Underwood.Dying for a daughter.png|Brittany Underwood
File:Karina Segura.Dying for a Daughter.png|Karina Segura
File:Jill Adler.Dying for a daughter.png|Jill Adler
Category:2020 Films
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Category:Crime
Category:Thriller
Category:Films directed by Fred Olen Ray
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