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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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.