Empty Cradle
Empty Cradle is a 1993 television film directed by Paul Schneider. The film is based on actual events, but the scenario has been fictionalized for entertainment purposes.
Little does Jane know that Rita with the help of her teenage son Patrick Jonah Blechman kidnapped her baby daughter, and switched records between a stillborn child and healthy child to make it appear as if Janes baby was stillborn. Rita faked a pregnancy for months to keep her drifting lover Frank Don Yesso from leaving her. When Frank who is married to another woman shows his disappointment that their child is not a boy, Rita responds in anger and immediately sets out to somehow get a baby boy as well. Sometime later, she announces that she is pregnant again, and poses under the assumed name Elaine Crisp to take care of a pregnant woman who will deliver a boy. When Rita finds out that the woman knows about her true identity, she instead induces the labor of a 30yearold woman named Theresa Richland Elizabeth Daily in her home, cuts her throat, and steals her baby.Meanwhile, Jane becomes convinced that her baby wasnt stillborn, but instead of receiving support, her relatives and best friend Sharon Michelle Joyner believe that she is addicted to drugs and suffering from a depression, and suggest her to visit a psychiatrist. Even though she is estranging herself from everyone she knows, Jane continues to find out the truth and slowly recollects all the memories of her labor. In the hospital, she runs into Nurse Ramsey Karmin Murcelo, who helped her with her labor before Rita stepped in. Ramsey admits that she remembers that her baby was alive and healthy when she last checked up on her, but she is too afraid to support her theories. Therefore, Jane hires attorney Gail Huddle Penny Johnson to sue the hospital, only to find out her case is hopeless since her records have gone missing due to Rita. ........
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