Born to Be Sold (1981 TV Movie)
3/10
This isn't worth being borrowed or rented, let alone sold.
3 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Yeah right. Lynda Carter is totally believable as a social worker in a police precinct who takes care of family related issues. Anyone who has ever dealt with social workers in that department can tell you that none of them ever looked like Lynda Carter. If anything, she would be perfect as the woman who illegally adopted a child, perhaps not knowing it was illegal, and maybe even as a cop, but social worker? No way.

I also question the photographer who chose at one point to focus on Carter's butt as she walked across the set, a photography choice that makes no sense and has no purpose. Carter is far too well dressed and upscale looking. Donna Wilkes is the single mother to be originally seen in an unwed mother halfway house when Carter comes in as she's being abused, and the next thing you know, the baby has been taken and Carter is dealing with the adoption lawyer, Harold Gould.

He's seemingly cooperative at first but later quite ruthless as he tries to stop her. It's fascinating to see Rhoda's father and Rose's boyfriend playing the villain even though he had done that in several Disney films. Lloyd Haynes, Claire Malis and Joy Garrett are also featured with Malis the sophisticated adoptive mother, obviously isn't aware of the circumstances of how she got the baby. This is mainly defeated by a weak script and a preposterous situation with cliched bad guys practically twirling their mustaches.
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