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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There were several news stories in the years before this movie was made about mothers in dire financial straits who get involved in bank robberies. One was the case of Kentucky mom Crystal Little. One of the early titles of this movie was ''Mommy's '''Little''' Secret''.
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* DisguisedInDrag: Anne wears a fake goatee, a stocking cap and a coat in her robberies.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Despite her bankrobbing, Anne still pushes her kids to succeed in school.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Despite her bankrobbing, Anne still pushes her kids to succeed in school.
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Anne (Creator/CharismaCarpenter) is a recently-widowed hairdresser and literal soccer mom: her daughter Denise (Creator/SarahGrey) is a star player on her high school soccer team. Her son Kyle (Adam [=DiMarco=]) has taken to gambling to help the family, and has fallen deeply in debt to an underworld figure named Quinlan (Amos Mitchell). Denise doesn't know about Kyle's gambling, just that he constantly asks to borrow her lunch money. She also doesn't know that her mom has been robbing banks on Quinlan's orders to help pay down Kyle's debts, but seeing news stories about a string of bank robberies and observing Anne's odd behavior has made her suspicious.
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Anne Harding (Creator/CharismaCarpenter) is a recently-widowed hairdresser and literal soccer mom: her daughter Denise (Creator/SarahGrey) is a star player on her high school soccer team. Her son Kyle (Adam [=DiMarco=]) has taken to gambling to help the family, and has fallen deeply in debt to an underworld figure named Quinlan (Amos Mitchell). Denise doesn't know about Kyle's gambling, just that he constantly asks to borrow her lunch money. She also doesn't know that her mom has been robbing banks on Quinlan's orders to help pay down Kyle's debts, but seeing news stories about a string of bank robberies and observing Anne's odd behavior has made her suspicious.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The cops actually seem like they're doing a good job investigating the robberies, but the PlotTwist establishes that [[spoiler:while the police struggle to figure out what's happening, the FBI was able to nab Anne after her very first bank hit, and got her to cooperate with them]].
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: In the real world, college sports coaches will have hours of game footage which they can watch to evaluate a high school athlete. In this movie's world, recruiting involves sending a someone out to watch the player in a single make-or-break game, and they're apparently not allowed to consider anything else in their decision. Also, a player missing a shot-on-goal in soccer (which is quite common) is enough of an excuse to deny them a scholarship.
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* TheGamblingAddict: Kyle, still grieving his father's death and wanting to help his mom out, turned to gambling, but it's starting to consume his life.
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* FixingTheGame: Not stated outright, but in the IllegalGamblingDen scene it's pretty clear that Quinlan is rigging it so that Kyle will lose.
* TheGamblingAddict: Kyle, still grieving his father's death and wanting to help his mom out, turned to gambling, but it's starting to consume his life. The movie teases the audience by at first making it look like he's a [[AddledAddict drug addict]].
* TheGamblingAddict: Kyle, still grieving his father's death and wanting to help his mom out, turned to gambling, but it's starting to consume his life. The movie teases the audience by at first making it look like he's a [[AddledAddict drug addict]].
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''Mommy's Secret'' (also known as ''Mommy's Little Secret'' and ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin My Mom Robs Banks]]'') is a 2016 LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek directed by Terrance Miles.
Anne (Creator/CharismaCarpenter) is a recently-widowed hairdresser and literal soccer mom: her daughter Denise (Creator/SarahGrey) is a star player on her high school soccer team. Her son Kyle (Adam [=DiMarco=]) has taken to gambling to help the family, and has fallen deeply in debt to an underworld figure named Quinlan (Amos Mitchell). Denise doesn't know about Kyle's gambling, just that he constantly asks to borrow her lunch money. She also doesn't know that her mom has been robbing banks on Quinlan's orders to help pay down Kyle's debts, but seeing news stories about a string of bank robberies and observing Anne's odd behavior has made her suspicious.
!!''Mommy's Secret'' contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseSports: In the real world, college sports coaches will have hours of game footage which they can watch to evaluate a high school athlete. In this movie's world, recruiting involves sending a someone out to watch the player in a single make-or-break game, and they're apparently not allowed to consider anything else in their decision. Also, a player missing a shot-on-goal in soccer (which is quite common) is enough of an excuse to deny them a scholarship.
* BigFancyHouse: The family has a rather huge suburban house, leading to the question of, if they're having money problems, why don't they just sell the house and downsize into something smaller?
* ChekhovsGun: The coat that's seen in a picture of Denise and her father is the same coat Anne wears in her robberies, and Denise recognizes it in the camera footage of a robbery she sees on the nose, leading her to start suspecting her mom is the bank robber.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The exact nature of Quinlan's operation is never explained, but apparently he has a legitimate front business, but also has lots of illegal side activities and uses other side activities to launder the money. Why he's devoting so much attention to barroom poker games is a mystery.
* DisguisedInDrag: Anne wears a fake goatee, a stocking cap and a coat in her robberies.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Despite her bankrobbing, Anne still pushes her kids to succeed in school.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Quinlan, despite his no-nonsense exterior, is quite nice to Anne, buying her presents and taking her out to dinner.
* TheGamblingAddict: Kyle, still grieving his father's death and wanting to help his mom out, turned to gambling, but it's starting to consume his life.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Due to the TomatoSurprise, the final half-hour shifts quite suddenly from {{Melodrama}} to Action {{Thriller}}.
* IllegalGamblingDen: Denise finds Kyle playing poker in a seedy bar.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: An unusual daughter-mother pairing for this contrast. Blonde Denise (Light) is a morally upright {{Tomboy}}, brunette Anne (Dark) is a troubled woman who's turned to crime.
* MortonsFork: Denise flat-out asks Anne if she's been robbing banks. Anne gives an evasive NonAnswer.
-->"Do you really think that your mom's capable of robbing banks?"
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The movie seems like it's supposed to be taking place in the Pacific Northwest, but it never gets more specific than a car license plate that says "Evergreen State". It was filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Denise's life is devoted to soccer, and she also jogs around her neighborhood.
* SeniorYearStruggles: Denise is trying to get a college soccer scholarship.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Anne is a widow having problems keeping afloat financially, including rejected insurance claims, which partly inspires her turn to crime.
* TomatoSurprise: Denise finally catches Anne in the act of robbing a bank, which marks a major turning point in the story. However, it's merely setting up TheReveal for a major PlotTwist--[[spoiler:Anne is an FBI informant in their investigation of Quinlan, and has been committing the robberies under their watch]].
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There were several news stories in the years before this movie was made about a mom who gets involved in bank robberies. One was the case of Crystal Little in the UK. One of the early titles of this movie was ''Mommy's '''Little''' Secret''.
* VillainousCrush: Quinlan seems to have one on Anne (and, since she's played by Creator/CharismaCarpenter, who can blame him?), but between her shutting him down and his focus on getting money, it's not a major theme in the story.
* WouldHurtAChild: Quinlan apparently thinks nothing of threatening a teenage boy over gambling debts, and [[spoiler:his henchmen later kidnap Denise]].
''Mommy's Secret'' (also known as ''Mommy's Little Secret'' and ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin My Mom Robs Banks]]'') is a 2016 LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek directed by Terrance Miles.
Anne (Creator/CharismaCarpenter) is a recently-widowed hairdresser and literal soccer mom: her daughter Denise (Creator/SarahGrey) is a star player on her high school soccer team. Her son Kyle (Adam [=DiMarco=]) has taken to gambling to help the family, and has fallen deeply in debt to an underworld figure named Quinlan (Amos Mitchell). Denise doesn't know about Kyle's gambling, just that he constantly asks to borrow her lunch money. She also doesn't know that her mom has been robbing banks on Quinlan's orders to help pay down Kyle's debts, but seeing news stories about a string of bank robberies and observing Anne's odd behavior has made her suspicious.
!!''Mommy's Secret'' contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseSports: In the real world, college sports coaches will have hours of game footage which they can watch to evaluate a high school athlete. In this movie's world, recruiting involves sending a someone out to watch the player in a single make-or-break game, and they're apparently not allowed to consider anything else in their decision. Also, a player missing a shot-on-goal in soccer (which is quite common) is enough of an excuse to deny them a scholarship.
* BigFancyHouse: The family has a rather huge suburban house, leading to the question of, if they're having money problems, why don't they just sell the house and downsize into something smaller?
* ChekhovsGun: The coat that's seen in a picture of Denise and her father is the same coat Anne wears in her robberies, and Denise recognizes it in the camera footage of a robbery she sees on the nose, leading her to start suspecting her mom is the bank robber.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The exact nature of Quinlan's operation is never explained, but apparently he has a legitimate front business, but also has lots of illegal side activities and uses other side activities to launder the money. Why he's devoting so much attention to barroom poker games is a mystery.
* DisguisedInDrag: Anne wears a fake goatee, a stocking cap and a coat in her robberies.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Despite her bankrobbing, Anne still pushes her kids to succeed in school.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Quinlan, despite his no-nonsense exterior, is quite nice to Anne, buying her presents and taking her out to dinner.
* TheGamblingAddict: Kyle, still grieving his father's death and wanting to help his mom out, turned to gambling, but it's starting to consume his life.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Due to the TomatoSurprise, the final half-hour shifts quite suddenly from {{Melodrama}} to Action {{Thriller}}.
* IllegalGamblingDen: Denise finds Kyle playing poker in a seedy bar.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: An unusual daughter-mother pairing for this contrast. Blonde Denise (Light) is a morally upright {{Tomboy}}, brunette Anne (Dark) is a troubled woman who's turned to crime.
* MortonsFork: Denise flat-out asks Anne if she's been robbing banks. Anne gives an evasive NonAnswer.
-->"Do you really think that your mom's capable of robbing banks?"
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The movie seems like it's supposed to be taking place in the Pacific Northwest, but it never gets more specific than a car license plate that says "Evergreen State". It was filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Denise's life is devoted to soccer, and she also jogs around her neighborhood.
* SeniorYearStruggles: Denise is trying to get a college soccer scholarship.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Anne is a widow having problems keeping afloat financially, including rejected insurance claims, which partly inspires her turn to crime.
* TomatoSurprise: Denise finally catches Anne in the act of robbing a bank, which marks a major turning point in the story. However, it's merely setting up TheReveal for a major PlotTwist--[[spoiler:Anne is an FBI informant in their investigation of Quinlan, and has been committing the robberies under their watch]].
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There were several news stories in the years before this movie was made about a mom who gets involved in bank robberies. One was the case of Crystal Little in the UK. One of the early titles of this movie was ''Mommy's '''Little''' Secret''.
* VillainousCrush: Quinlan seems to have one on Anne (and, since she's played by Creator/CharismaCarpenter, who can blame him?), but between her shutting him down and his focus on getting money, it's not a major theme in the story.
* WouldHurtAChild: Quinlan apparently thinks nothing of threatening a teenage boy over gambling debts, and [[spoiler:his henchmen later kidnap Denise]].
