This is a Lifetime 2023 thriller, based on the Cutler book series by Virginia Andrews. There are four feature length episodes and the first is "Dawn". It was directed by Linda-Lisa Hayter, and stars Brec Bassinger, Khobe Clarke and Donna Mills.
Dawn Longchamp lives with her poor family who need to move when her dad gets work as a janitor of a posh school for rich kids, offering Dawn a place there as a student. Her mother becomes ill and dies, leaving Dawn, her big brother James, baby sister Fern and their grieving dad, who is quickly arrested. A shocked Dawn learns that she was kidnapped as a baby and her family were not her own real family. Dawn is sent to live with her real family, the Cutlers.
She makes troubling discoveries. Her natural grandmother Lillian Booth is cruel, and the school bully Clara is her own sister, giving her free reign to torment her in the house. What's more uncomfortable is her half brother Phillip! Her natural mother Laura is sickly, unloving with too many issues. The quiet "mother's boy" dad is Randolph who is son of Lilian and deceased William Cutler. Dawn can't wait to leave them, so takes the first opportunity out there by going to college in New York, which changes her life again.
She stays in contact with her adopted family who are all apart, either in jail, the army and in foster care, while Dawns' own life has also been completely turned upside down. I rate this episode 9/10 for excitement and lots of juicy drama.
What I liked about this episode was Dawn's new friend Trisha the dancer, a breath of fresh air from the madness.
What I didn't like about it was grandmother Lillian Cutler and how evil she behaved towards Dawn.
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