Cradle of Lies (2006 TV Movie)
5/10
It's not all right Jack
31 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
(Some Spoilers) It's when single and available Haley, Shannon Sturges, met the handsome and sure of himself Jack Collins, Dylan Neal, at a skiing resort that sparks started to fly in all directions. Jack in no time at all, like 24 hours, fell on his knees and proposed to a startled Haley who in seeing how desperate the guy is could only say yes. We soon gt to see what was behind Jack's love at first sight attraction to Haley. And it had nothing to do with him loving her. But it has everything to do with a 50 million dollar inheritance that Jack's granddaddy left him on the grounds that he's married and his wife produce a son for him, while grandpa is still alive, to carry on the family name or bloodline!

It take a while for Haley to realize her husband's sinister plans for her who feels that he's,in his strange and crazy actions,suffering from a case of burn out at the office. That's in Jack involved in a major merger in getting the Bearring Group to become part of his boss Franklin Devon, Philip Craig, brokerage firm. The fact that if Jack can somehow pull off Haley giving birth to a son before his grandpa, who's now in his 90's, kicks off he could buy Devon's company out from under him and demote him to be the official messenger or box boy as revenge for all the trouble,by pushing him around, he caused him at the firm.

The big problem that Jack has is that he's not up to, in him not having the right equipment, in being a father if you know what I mean. This became evident in that his first wife was found brutally murdered when she became aware of his condition and was going to make it public! Now desperate for Haley to provide him with a son Jack get's her drunk and has a surrogate, who's a real good friend of is, do the job for him that he can't do himself. With Haley now pregnant a happy Jack, in seeing dollars signs before his eyes, is shocked to find out that the baby may well be a girl instead of a boy! And with that,in grandpa not having long to go, he can kiss his 50 million dollars goodbye.

***SPOILERS*** Jack becoming more and more desperate by the minute tries to dump Haley and marry his personal secretary Michelle Fox, Natalie Brown, not for love but to have her provide him with a son before grandpa checks out together with his 50 million dollar inheritance. Jack goes so far as to have the pregnant Haley knocked off when she in revenge empties out all his bank accounts and screws up his chances to get a merger done for his boss, who by now just about had it with him, Franklin Devon.

It's now that Jack loses control of his senses and screws everything up after the hit-man, Randy Butcher, he hired through his good friend Johnny Smith, Alan C.Peterson, who in fact had his first wife murdered messed up knocking off his old lady, Haley, by knocking off Michelle instead by mistake! The by now committable Jack ends up where he always belonged behind bars for a triple murder, his first wife Michelle and Johnny, with only an insanity defense, which in his case should be successful, keeping him from being sent off to death row.

***MAJOR SPOILER*** The biggest irony to this sad and depressing movie is that Jack was so crazy that he jumped the gun before Haley gave birth to his,or the guy who did the job for him, child. If he just waited until then and not act both crazy and homicidal like he did all his problems would have been over!
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