this movie tackle child abduction from the point of view of a mom ( lisa hartman black ) who act like a man would in an action thriller . unlike other movie where the focus be on the police and here the mom be track down her ex husband who kidnap their son . she get help from her lawyer who eventually fall in love with her . before finally catch up with her son and a lot of bizarre thing happen . the mom try to take a child that look like her son from a local child play at a community theater . she get caught and and then realize it be not her child . that alone would have get most people put into the mental ward or a few month in jail wait for trial . however and in this movie the mom be release after a couple of hour because the victim parent feel sorry for her . a little while later mom break into her mother in law house and then the police arrive and they have their gun aim at her but they let her run away because they recognize her ( and feel sorry for her . ) . at another point in the story they have find the child and but when the police arrive to search the house it turn out they leave out the back door and get into the river on a dinghy that apparently the dad keep around just for such an emergency escape . the mom get someone to lend her a raft and and even though it must have take some time ( in a real world ) and she and the lawyer boyfriend and and the police catch up to the other raft pretty fast and it be upside down in the water by landfall . instead of get out of the raft to search for the dad on the land and mom presumes he drown the boy and she jump into the water when she see his life jacket . of course and she can not swim and sink like a rock . the lawyer save her and but they miss a chance to run after the dad . at one point the mom be tell her son die at a clinic in mexico . on and on it go and and where it stop nobody know . in some way and this movie really exploit child abduction and it be not very positive . on the other hand and see a woman do all the crazy thing that men do in these kind of movie be fun ( or funny . ) .