Lifetime’s low-budget production about teenage pregnancy and conspiracies about selling these babies to highest bidders forms the basic premise of Roxanne Boisvert’s Don’t Sell My Baby, aka Danger Rocks the Cradle. Within the first 15 minutes of the movie, you know what’s about to happen and that it’s going to be a happy ending when there’s an overly helpful English teacher with kind eyes who’ll do anything to help a 16-year-old brat. We watched the movie and made a recap of the whole thing so that you don’t have to, and after reading it, you can be the judge if you’d want to watch it firsthand. Here’s a detailed summary and ending of Don’t Sell My Baby.
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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘Don’t Sell My Baby’?
High school student Nicolette finds out her pregnant friend Brooke has gone missing and starts looking for her. Meanwhile, Nicolette finds out that she’s pregnant as well and slowly learns that something sinister is happening at the group home she lives in. In such a situation, she forms a friendship with her English teacher, Ms. Ridling, who wants to help the girl. When Nicolette also goes missing, it’s up to Ridling and Nicolette’s friends to save her before she disappears for good.
What Happens To Brooke?
18-year-old Brooke, who lived at a group home, ran away from the place when she got pregnant to live with her boyfriend Trent, but the moment she returned to the city, she was kidnapped by a man named Alex. Brooke was kept strapped to a bed until she gave birth, and she was then handed a wad of cash by Claudia, the nurse looking after her. However, desperate to get free, Brooke pushed Claudia, grabbed the nurse’s phone, and escaped. She called her friend Nicolette and asked her to meet at their usual spot, but by the time Nicolette arrived, Brooke was being followed by a car that ran her over, killing her. The envelope of cash was found on Brooke, but there was no baby.
What Situation Does Nicolette Find Herself In?
Nicolette’s friend Brooke has been missing for a while, and she’s sticking flyers everywhere and asking around if anyone has seen her friend when she starts feeling signs of morning sickness. She continuously rejects the attempts of her English teacher, Mrs. Ridling, to learn about the 16-year-old girl’s situations, until Ridling finds Nicolette sitting outside the nurse’s office at 7 p.m. in the evening. She gets the girl a pregnancy test kit that turns out positive, and Nicolette is indeed pregnant with her ex-boyfriend Jake’s child, but Jake doesn’t want to bother with this. Meanwhile, Nicolette gets a phone call from her friend Brooke and, upon showing up at the said location, watches her friend get run over by a car.
Upon finding out about her pregnancy, Nicolette’s group home manager, Rachel, introduces her to a woman named Abigail, who runs an adoption agency named Loving Arms. Abigail makes Nicolette read a bunch of documents and explains how her company organizes teen parents to get their children adopted by financially settled parents. Nicolette asks for time to consider the proposal and plans to meet her teacher, Ms. Ridling, the next day for dinner at a cafeteria. However, on her way to the place, she feels she’s being pursued by a car and trips and falls. Nicolette calls Ridling, who admits her to the hospital.
Who’s Ms. Ridling?
The newest English teacher at Nicolette’s school arrives with a lot of hopes of helping people and meets the problem child in her class, Nicolette. While Nicolette is dealing with teen pregnancy, Ridling and her husband Mark are trying to get pregnant but are failing time and time again. As Ridling and Nicolette become close, the teacher shares the story of how she got pregnant at 16 and had to give up her baby for adoption. We also learn that Mark has just gone on a business trip, and received a big bonus there, and the couple decide to use the money for an IVF treatment. Ridling remains an active part of Nicolette’s life, and when she learns the young student’s manager is organizing for an adoption agency’s woman to meet with the teenager, her suspicions mount.
What’s Really Going On?
There was a massive crime ring that more or less dealt with illegally selling the children of teen moms who couldn’t raise their children by themselves to rich couples, and Abigail, the manager of Loving Arms, organized it all. Rachel was her contact in the group home, and she’d alert Abigail whenever one of the girls got pregnant, and Abigail would show up with a contract. The girls would be detained until they gave birth, and afterwards, they’d be given a lot of money and asked to disappear. There’d been one other girl before Brooke named Misty who’d gone through with the plan and didn’t cause problems, so she was allowed to live. Brooke broke protocol and ran, which is why Alex ran her over with his car. Whenever anyone asked questions or became a liability, Abigail sent Alex to take care of the problem. Alex had killed Claudia, the nurse, when she became concerned with Brooke’s death, and also hit Trent on the head with a rod when he showed up at a spot Rachel had asked him to come to because he’d started asking questions about Brooke’s disappearance.
‘Don’t Sell My Baby’ Ending Explained – Was Ms. Ridling Able To Save Nicolette?
Ms. Ridling learns from Nicolette’s friends that the pregnant teen never returned from the hospital and that Abigail is connected with all the disappearances of the pregnant teens. Ridling arrived at Abigail’s office and, after meeting the manager, became suspicious of her. She followed Abigail to a seedy part of the town and jumped the manager, and a scuffle ensued. Ridling pepper-sprayed Abigail and then went inside a building where Nicolette was being forcefully kept. She phoned Detective Holmes, who was looking into the case of disappearing teen moms, and he promised to send cop cars to her location. She rescued Nicolette by removing the straps that’d held the teenager to the bed, but Alex showed up and demanded Nicolette tie up her teacher. Using Abigail’s cries as a distraction, Nicolette pepper-sprayed Alex, and the two women locked him inside Nicolette’s room and were running away when they came face-to-face with Abigail. However, Abigail was done because police sirens could be heard in the background.
A few months later, Ridling is expecting thanks to the IVF treatment, and Mark and she have adopted Nicolette, who’s given birth to a healthy baby boy. Nicolette is also going away to the college of her choice, while Jake, who was initially disinterested in the whole thing, has agreed to become invested in their son’s life. It’s good fortune on drugs, and even though you’re watching a low-budget movie, you can tell the conclusion is forcibly twisted into a happy ending, where everything works out better than anyone’s wildest imaginations. Horrible, choppy editing, soulless characters, a repetitive story, and a typical blonde teenage pregnant girl who forms a bond with her unnaturally kind teacher through a traumatic situation aside, Don’t Sell My Baby really doesn’t offer much.
