In Lifetime’s powerful new drama Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story, premiering Saturday, April 12 at 8/7c, actress, writer, and acting coach Tiffany Black delivers an emotionally charged performance as Elizabeth — the woman who raised Monique Smith, only for it to be revealed that she wasn’t her biological mother. The film, based on Monique’s real-life memoir, traces a journey of abuse and identity, giving voice to the kind of trauma that often goes unspoken.
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Let’s talk about reading. Pumpkin Spice latte in hand, Adirondack chairs on deck, the weird occasional Christmas advertisement on the radio. Sounds like fall.
Struggling against its own run time, ‘First They Killed My Father,’ the story of a child surviving the Pol Pot regime, proves that film production done right will not sustain a movie on its own.