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Last modified: Nov. 13, 2016

When the Bough Breaks

Release Date: Friday, September 9, 2016 Theaters

Director: Jon Cassar

Starring: Theo Rossi Regina Hall Morris Chestnut Jaz Sinclair Romany Malco

PG-13 Suspense 1 hr, 33 m

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Plot

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Plot
John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna (Jaz Sinclair), the perfect woman to be their surrogate—but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna’s deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it’s too late.
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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Jon Cassar last directed Forsaken. The film's writer Jack Olsen last wrote The Birth Mother and Lust.

Director
Jon Cassar
Screenwriter
Producers
Michael Lynne
Dylan Sellers
Bob Shaye
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Additional Information

Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for violence, sexuality/partial nudity, thematic elements, some disturbing images, and language
Runtime
1 hr, 33 m
Tagline
It all went wrong.
Also known as
Within, The Birth Mother

Language
English

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When the Bough Breaks was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, September 9, 2016. There were 15 other movies released on the same date, including Sully, The Wild Life and Other People.

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  • Added the tagline: " It all went wrong."

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