‘When the Bough Breaks’

MORRIS Chestnut and Regina Hall are terrible judges of character in ‘When the Bough Breaks’ (2016). A melodramatic psychological thriller also starring Theo Rossi and Jaz Sinclair.

Beating the pretty young psychotic thing trope to within an inch of its life, the film tells the story of a successful young couple who are struggling to conceive.

Desperate and down to their last embryo, they enlist the help of a seemingly sweet young woman and her crazy right off the bat boyfriend in the hopes that they will finally fulfill the family they have been dreaming of.

Though Chestnut and Hall both turn in solid performances, the twists in this are as convoluted as a straight line.

Cliché, done to death and problematic in its spectrum of female characters ranging from the fragile, barren wife to the instantly obsessed other woman, ‘When the Bough Breaks’ plays like plenty you have seen before and been just as underwhelmed with.

See this if it’s enough that the cast is fine as hell.

Miss this if you’ve got anything else to do.

Anything at all.

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