Natalie and Ryan Westport have just moved to Louisville with their new baby Billy. Ryan is starting a new job, and Natalie, a fifth-grade schoolteacher, is still recovering from a difficult labor. She meets a woman named Grace who comes to the rescue when Natalie's baby carriage is tumbling towards the lake much like the carriage of Eisenstein's classic film on the stairs of Odessa in "Potemkin."
Grace then invites Natalie to become a member of the Friday mommies' club, who call themselves The Tribe. True to their name, by the end of the film, the women have made a superhuman effort to support one another in a grim struggle for survival.
As the principal drama of an imposter among The Tribe unfolds, the filmmakers adopt a gritty, realistic style. Natalie is learning about breast-feeding and the use of the breast pump, and there are some fairly graphic depictions of the mechanics. In the close-ups, Natalie's face has red blotches from the stress of rearing a newborn. As she struggles with depression, Natalie has experienced some delusional thinking and images of not being a good mom. She has even stopped taking her meds, which is ominous. But nothing has prepared her for the trial that she must now face.
The title "Mommy Group Murder" (a.k.a., "The Perfect One") refers to deranged character of Grace, whose obsessions have led her to commit murder beginning with her senior year in high school when she killed her boyfriend. Now, she has murdered Drew Jackson, taken over his home, and locked his wife Lydia in the basement where she is forced into using a breast pump to feed the little baby that Grace covets. When the weaning is finished, Grace plans to kill Lydia.
Grace has also found the the time to have an affair with Tony, the husband of Maria, the kind ER doctor who is a member of The Tribe. When Tony tries to break off the relationship, she kills him in his own home. By now, the two other members of The Tribe, Natalie and Roz, are getting wise to Grace.
The close of the film was dynamic and action-packed with snappy dialogue and interesting camera angles in the Jackson house. The characters of the Tribe members were exceptionally well-developed. Natalie was motivated by the words of her late mother, who told her, "Trust your instincts, and love your child every moment." It was that wisdom that helped Natalie through her ordeal in conjunction with some powerful assistance from the fighting spirit of The Tribe.
Grace then invites Natalie to become a member of the Friday mommies' club, who call themselves The Tribe. True to their name, by the end of the film, the women have made a superhuman effort to support one another in a grim struggle for survival.
As the principal drama of an imposter among The Tribe unfolds, the filmmakers adopt a gritty, realistic style. Natalie is learning about breast-feeding and the use of the breast pump, and there are some fairly graphic depictions of the mechanics. In the close-ups, Natalie's face has red blotches from the stress of rearing a newborn. As she struggles with depression, Natalie has experienced some delusional thinking and images of not being a good mom. She has even stopped taking her meds, which is ominous. But nothing has prepared her for the trial that she must now face.
The title "Mommy Group Murder" (a.k.a., "The Perfect One") refers to deranged character of Grace, whose obsessions have led her to commit murder beginning with her senior year in high school when she killed her boyfriend. Now, she has murdered Drew Jackson, taken over his home, and locked his wife Lydia in the basement where she is forced into using a breast pump to feed the little baby that Grace covets. When the weaning is finished, Grace plans to kill Lydia.
Grace has also found the the time to have an affair with Tony, the husband of Maria, the kind ER doctor who is a member of The Tribe. When Tony tries to break off the relationship, she kills him in his own home. By now, the two other members of The Tribe, Natalie and Roz, are getting wise to Grace.
The close of the film was dynamic and action-packed with snappy dialogue and interesting camera angles in the Jackson house. The characters of the Tribe members were exceptionally well-developed. Natalie was motivated by the words of her late mother, who told her, "Trust your instincts, and love your child every moment." It was that wisdom that helped Natalie through her ordeal in conjunction with some powerful assistance from the fighting spirit of The Tribe.