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* EarnYourHappyEnding: As the movie closes, [[spoiler:Brooke has successfully avoided becoming a victim of Alexis and has custody of both the daughter she raised (Hailey) and her biological daughter (Breanne), the girls have formed a close sisterly relationship, Carter survived his gunshot wound, Viv recovered from her hit-and-run, and John is back in Hailey's life]].
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* TheMockbuster: The movie lifts the premise of the series ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' pretty much wholesale (two 16-year-old girls--one rich, one poor--learn they were switched, after the rich girl learns that her blood type doesn't match her parents), but adds a {{Thriller}} element involving the moms to the TeenDrama baseline.

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* TheMockbuster: The movie lifts the premise of the series ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' pretty much wholesale (two 16-year-old girls--one rich, one poor--learn they were switched, after the rich girl learns that finds out her blood type doesn't match her parents), but adds a {{Thriller}} element involving the moms to the TeenDrama baseline.
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* TheMockbuster: The movie lifts the premise of the series ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' pretty much wholesale (two 16-year-old girls--one rich, one poor--learn they were switched), but adds a {{Thriller}} element involving the moms to the TeenDrama baseline.

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* TheMockbuster: The movie lifts the premise of the series ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' pretty much wholesale (two 16-year-old girls--one rich, one poor--learn they were switched), switched, after the rich girl learns that her blood type doesn't match her parents), but adds a {{Thriller}} element involving the moms to the TeenDrama baseline.
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* TheMockbuster: The movie lifts the premise of the series ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' pretty much wholesale (two 16-year-old girls--one rich, one poor--learn they were switched), but adds a {{Thriller}} element involving the moms to the TeenDrama baseline.

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* SacrificialLion: Alexis killing [[spoiler:her boyfriend Nick]] establishes her as evil once and for all.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Alexis killing her boss and the dean at the college are never mentioned again, despite the obvious law enforcement investigations they would provoke.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: VillainProtagonist: Lindsay Hartley (who also co-wrote the screenplay) gets top billing as Brooke, but Alexis ends up getting developed much more as a character, and Alexis is responsible for all the plot developments in the latter half of the story.
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Alexis killing her boss and the dean at the college are never mentioned again, despite the obvious law enforcement investigations they would provoke.[[note]]Nick's death going uninvestigated gets explained by Alexis successfully pulling off a MakeItLookLikeAnAccident gambit, and John not reporting it because he himself was trespassing on her property to begin with.[[/note]]
** Sky, Hailey's friend, gets an emphasized character trait (a [[BadInfluencer social media obsessed teen]]), leading you to think she'll be important to the story, but she's forgotten after a couple of brief appearances.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Nurse Cameron is never shown onscreen, having passed away two years before the film's events. But her actions result in Hailey and Breanne getting switched at birth and sets the movie's entire plot in motion

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Nurse Cameron is never shown onscreen, having passed away two a few years before the film's events. But her actions result in Hailey and Breanne getting switched at birth and sets the movie's entire plot in motion



* TheUnreveal: With the nurse who was on call the day Hailey and Breanne were born having died two years before the switch was discovered, it's never revealed how the incident unfolded.

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* TheUnreveal: With the nurse who was on call the day Hailey and Breanne were born having died two years before the switch was discovered, it's never revealed how the incident unfolded.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Alexis became pregant with Hailey via an affair with John, an assistant coach for her college volleyball team.

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Alexis became pregant pregnant with Hailey via an affair with John, an assistant coach for her college volleyball team.
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* ABNegative: Hailey not being the biological daughter of Brooke and Carter is discovered because the blood donor card Hailey got a school blood drive (which she organized to begin with) doesn't list her type as--yes, AB negative, which is also Carter's type and which Brooke thought was Hailey's type, but O Rh positive instead.

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* ABNegative: Hailey not being the biological daughter of Brooke and Carter is discovered because the blood donor card Hailey got a at the school blood drive (which she organized to begin with) doesn't list her type as--yes, AB negative, which is also Carter's type and which Brooke thought was Hailey's type, but O Rh positive instead.
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* TimeShiftedActor: 18-year-old Alexis is played in the flashback scenes by Paris Smith.

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* CarFu: The prologue shows a young Alexis running over Hailey's biological father with her car after having an argument over them being too young to have a child.

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* CarFu: BatmanGambit: Alexis does a hit-and-run on Brooke's assistant Viv, injuring her, on the hope that Brooke will hire her to fill in while Viv recovers. It works.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just as Alexis is planning something sinister for Brooke, we learn that [[spoiler:John, Hailey's birth father, has been keeping tabs on Alexis, then he warns Hailey and Breanne and they rush off to the rescue]].
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The prologue shows a young Alexis running over Hailey's biological father with her car after having an argument over them being too young to have a child.child.
** Alexis does it again when she injures Viv (with flashbacks to the earlier incident).



* HollywoodLaw: In real life, courts would get involved with the accidental switching of the two girls, but the hospital is presented as the one to help determine the situation, on where the girls stay where they are or decide where to live.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Nurse Cameron is never shown onscreen, having passed away two years before the film's events. But her actions result in Hailey and Breanne getting switched at birth and sets the movie's entire plot in motion.

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* HappilyMarried: Brooke and Carter, in contrast to Alexis and her turbulent relationship with her live-in boyfriend Nick.
* HollywoodLaw: In real life, courts would get involved with the accidental switching of the two girls, but the hospital is presented as the one to help determine the situation, on where the girls stay where they are or decide where to live.
live. Then, on top of that, the hospital ultimately decides to let the girls themselves make the choice.
* ImNotHungry: Said word-for-word by Hailey at the restaurant after her parents reveal that her blood type doesn't match the one listed on her birth records.
* ManipulativeBitch: Alexis loves to use sob stories about her life to get people to do what she wants for her.
* RomComJob: While it's not a [=RomCom=], Brooke being a landscape architect and having a handsome husband is in the ballpark for this.
* SingleTear: Shed by Hailey after the hospital reveals that the DNA test shows she's not the daughter of Brooke and Carter.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: An undercurrent throughout the movie, with the contrasting socioeconomic statuses of blue collar Alexis and white collar Brooke.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Nurse Cameron is never shown onscreen, having passed away two years before the film's events. But her actions result in Hailey and Breanne getting switched at birth and sets the movie's entire plot in motion.motion
* TheSociopath: Alexis counts. She's a ConsummateLiar, she steals money from her co-workers without remorse, and also has a violent streak, going all the way back to trying to murder her boyfriend when she was pregnant.
* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen: ConversationalTroping, as Hailey is embarrassed for using the word "totes" and Breanne notes that she herself used the equally corny "I'm down".
* StickyFingers: Alexis steals tip money meant for the other members of the waiting staff at the coffee house.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Alexis works at a coffee shop and has trouble making ends meet.



* TheUnreveal: With the nurse who was on call the day Hailey and Breanne were born having died two years before the switch was discovered, it's never revealed how the incident unfolded.

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Alexis became pregant with Hailey via an affair with John, an assistant coach for her college volleyball team.
* TheUnreveal: With the nurse who was on call the day Hailey and Breanne were born having died two years before the switch was discovered, it's never revealed how the incident unfolded.unfolded.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Brooke's search for the identity of Hailey's father leads to the death of the dean at the college, at the hands of Alexis.
** Viv suggesting that Brooke designate Alexis as guardian for the two girls if she and Carter happened to die leads Alexis to [[spoiler:plot the murder of the couple]], and to [[spoiler:Alexis killing Nick when he figures out her plans]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Alexis killing her boss and the dean at the college are never mentioned again, despite the obvious law enforcement investigations they would provoke.
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The story focuses on two mother-daughter pairs: Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) and Hailey (Creator/TuMorrow), from a wealthy family, plus blue collar single mom Alexis (Creator/HannahBarefoot) and Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop). Their lives get thrown into turmoil when it's discovered that the girls, born in the same hospital on the same day 17 years ago, were inadvertently switched. As the girls spend time with their respective biological families, Alexis, who has a few dark secrets in her life, grows fearful that she's losing both Breanne ''and'' Hailey to Brooke and grows increasingly psychotic as a result.

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The story focuses on two mother-daughter pairs: Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) and Hailey (Creator/TuMorrow), from a wealthy family, plus blue collar single mom Alexis (Creator/HannahBarefoot) and Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop). Their lives get thrown into turmoil when it's discovered that the girls, born in the same hospital on the same day 17 16 years ago, earlier, were inadvertently switched. As the girls spend time with their respective biological families, Alexis, who has a few dark secrets in her life, grows fearful that she's losing both Breanne ''and'' Hailey to Brooke and grows increasingly psychotic as a result.

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A 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has two families thrown into turmoil when Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter Hailey (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop). As the girls spend time with their respective biological families, Alexis (Creator/HannahBarefoot) grows fearful that she's losing both Breanne ''and'' Hailey to Brooke and grows increasingly psychotic as a result.

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A ''Deadly Daughter Switch'' (as known as ''Deadliest Switch'') is a 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has Creator/BenMeyerson.

The story focuses on
two families thrown into turmoil when mother-daughter pairs: Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter and Hailey (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter (Creator/TuMorrow), from a wealthy family, plus blue collar single mom Alexis (Creator/HannahBarefoot) and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop). Their lives get thrown into turmoil when it's discovered that the girls, born in the same hospital on the same day 17 years ago, were inadvertently switched. As the girls spend time with their respective biological families, Alexis (Creator/HannahBarefoot) Alexis, who has a few dark secrets in her life, grows fearful that she's losing both Breanne ''and'' Hailey to Brooke and grows increasingly psychotic as a result.



* ABNegative: Hailey not being the biological daughter of Brooke and Carter is discovered because the blood donor card Hailey got a school blood drive (which she organized to begin with) doesn't list her type as--yes, AB negative, which is also Carter's type and which Brooke thought was Hailey's type, but O Rh positive.

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* ABNegative: Hailey not being the biological daughter of Brooke and Carter is discovered because the blood donor card Hailey got a school blood drive (which she organized to begin with) doesn't list her type as--yes, AB negative, which is also Carter's type and which Brooke thought was Hailey's type, but O Rh positive.positive instead.
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* ABNegative: Hailey not being the biological daughter of Brooke and Carter is discovered because the blood donor card Hailey got a school blood drive (which she organized to begin with) doesn't list her type as--yes, AB negative, which is also Carter's type and which Brooke thought was Hailey's type, but O Rh positive.

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A 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has two families thrown into turmoil when Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop).

The movie also stars Creator/HannahBarefoot, Creator/MattPohlkamp, Creator/GibGerard, Creator/EricCallero, Creator/AllisonMcAtee, and Creator/AustinTrace.

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A 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has two families thrown into turmoil when Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter Hailey (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop).

(Creator/JaneWiddop). As the girls spend time with their respective biological families, Alexis (Creator/HannahBarefoot) grows fearful that she's losing both Breanne ''and'' Hailey to Brooke and grows increasingly psychotic as a result.

The movie also stars Creator/HannahBarefoot, Creator/MattPohlkamp, Creator/GibGerard, Creator/EricCallero, Creator/AllisonMcAtee, and Creator/AustinTrace.



* CarFu: The prologue shows a young Alexis running over Hailey's biological father with her car after having an argument over them being too young to have a child.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Alexis and Breanne just happen to be watching TV when the news report about the hospital daughter switch happened.



* SwitchedAtBirth: Hailey and Breanne are discovered to have been accidentally given to different parents and now the daughters have to figure out what where they want to live.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Nurse Cameron is never shown onscreen, having passed away two years before the film's events. But her actions result in Hailey and Breanne getting switched at birth and sets the movie's entire plot in motion.
* SwitchedAtBirth: Hailey and Breanne are discovered to have been accidentally given to different parents and now the daughters have to figure out what where they want to live.live.
* TheUnreveal: With the nurse who was on call the day Hailey and Breanne were born having died two years before the switch was discovered, it's never revealed how the incident unfolded.
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The movie also stars Creator/HannahBarefoot, Creator/MatthewPohlkamp, Creator/GibGerard, Creator/EricCallero, Creator/AllisonMcAtee, and Creator/AustinTrace.

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The movie also stars Creator/HannahBarefoot, Creator/MatthewPohlkamp, Creator/MattPohlkamp, Creator/GibGerard, Creator/EricCallero, Creator/AllisonMcAtee, and Creator/AustinTrace.
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A 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has two families thrown into turmoil when Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop).

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A 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has two families thrown into turmoil when Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop).
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* DisappearedDad: Hailey thinks that her biological father is dead but it seems that he is still alive.

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* DisappearedDad: Hailey thinks that her biological father is dead but it seems is revealed that he is still alive.alive and shows up towards the end.
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A 2020 Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie directed by Creator/BenMeyerson that has two families thrown into turmoil when Brooke (Creator/LindsayHartley) discovers that her daughter (Creator/TuMorrow) isn't her biological daughter and that she was switched with Breanne (Creator/JaneWiddop).

The movie also stars Creator/HannahBarefoot, Creator/MatthewPohlkamp, Creator/GibGerard, Creator/EricCallero, Creator/AllisonMcAtee, and Creator/AustinTrace.

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!Tropes for the film:
* DisappearedDad: Hailey thinks that her biological father is dead but it seems that he is still alive.
* HollywoodLaw: In real life, courts would get involved with the accidental switching of the two girls, but the hospital is presented as the one to help determine the situation, on where the girls stay where they are or decide where to live.
* SwitchedAtBirth: Hailey and Breanne are discovered to have been accidentally given to different parents and now the daughters have to figure out what where they want to live.

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