Please go tear your hair out or watch paint dry. Either will be better than watching this drivel. This movie has a poor plot full of holes, no common sense and so much predictability that the viewer can see what's coming at every turn. No surprises or twists unless you're brain dead. One cliche after another. The brother gets himself into debt and wants to steal his sister's insurance money but instead of just doing that he sets up a grift involving a young woman who is a surrogate for his sister after her husband passes. He and his wife want a baby and can't afford to pay, so they choose this surrogate because she's also indebted to the brother as he loaned her money she couldn't pay back. Not sure why someone that's already broke is loaning a young girl money that clearly she won't be able to repay. It just completely compounds the problem. Even worse the brother also loans money to a con who just got out of prison and he can't repay his loan either. Big surprise there. Its so ludicrous that I'm laughing as I write this review. Who writes Lifetime movies? Drunken out of work soap opera authors that were previously fired due to poor skills? Good grief.

In "The Baby Swindler" (aka, "A Deadly Surrogacy"), Susie Ashcroft's desperation in having a baby leads her donate an egg to a surrogate so that she may honor her late husband Michael and have a meaningful remembrance of him in her child. But complications arise when the surrogate named Lorna, who was introduced to her by Susie's brother Andrew, appears to be leading a secret life.

The amount of lying that takes place involving Andrew and his wife Grace is on an epic scale. There is also a jaw-dropping depiction of the brother-sister relationship. Susie's trust is so deep and her worldview is so naive that she once thought Andrew and Grace were the perfect couple. The same could be said of Mr. And Mrs. Macbeth.

It was unfortunate that Susie's co-worker Helen became collateral damage when she was doing some digging into the past transactions of Michael's business and his association with Susie's brother Andrew. IMBd user CranberriAppl, who always offers incisive film commentaries, raised this query: "How many "friends" have to die so the protag can do what she (usually) wants?" Namely, instead of going to the police, Susie sacrifices her friend on the high altar of her own impulsiveness.

The literally over-the-top, melodramatic ending in a fracas on a rooftop has to be seen to be believed. A mad scramble ensues with the very pregnant Lorna deeply involved in the tussle. In the film's denouement, the debt-ridden liar Lorna is off to Southeast Asia. May viewers look forward to a sequel depicting the adventures of Lorna in Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia?