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Sounds icky at first - a girl gets pregnant with twins one fathered by her boyfriend and one by his best friend who drugged and raped her. Yes it's possible. But the rapist family is rich and he wants to get rid of the baby.

Things are quite exciting actually and it's fairly watchable. The casting is a little confusing because the boyfriend and the rapist look a bit alike - should have chosen more different looking actors.

The conclusion is quite neat so makes it worth a watch.

After "Mommy's Little Boy" Lifetime showed another "premiere" called "Double Mommy," which like the earlier film is also a follow-up to a previous Lifetime hit, "Double Daddy" — in which a young man impregnates two women, his regular girlfriend and a rich bitch who drugged him and essentially raped him, on the same night and had to deal with both babies. "Double Mommy has at least one creative behind-the-scenes person in common with Double Daddy," screenwriter Barbara Kymlicka. It's directed by Doug Campbell and one of the credited producers is Ken Sanders, and as you might expect from those credits it takes place at least around, if not definitively in, the "Whittendale universe" — Whittendale University being the college the young high-schoolers in the dramatis personae aspire to attend, though as Charles pointed out when he arrived home midway through the movie, given that most of the films in the Whittendale universe have depicted Whittendale as a place whose women students all seem to be selling their bodies as prostitutes or mistresses to afford the school's tuition, they're probably better off not getting in there.

The leading character who gets doubly pregnant is Jessica "Jess" Bell (Morgan Obenreder), whose boyfriend Ryan (Griffin Freeman) deserted her for the summer to take an internship in Sacramento (the Whittendale universe films have been ambiguous as to just where Whittendale is; early on it seemed to be back East — Vermont, maybe — but later films in the series took place definitively in California and I got the impression that "Whittendale" really means Stanford) and left her with the attentions of Brent Davick (Mark Grossman), the hottest guy in the movie and therefore, according to Lifetime's usual iconography, its principal villain. Brent has befriended Jess and hung out with her throughout the summer, but being a teenage male (and especially a teenage male on Lifetime!) he wants more than that, and when he makes an advance towards her and she says no, he's grimly determined to have his way with her whether she wants to or not. So he offers her a cola which he's spiked with a date-rape drug — since Brent's dad is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company he had no trouble obtaining it — and he parks his SUV in front of some stadium lights on campus and tells her, "No one ever says no to me," before he has his wicked way with her and she passes out completely. Next thing she knows she's in her bed at home, only her pants are undone and her leg has a bruise on it. She washes herself and hears someone at her door — and of course it's Ryan, back from his Sacramento internship and ready to resume their relationship, particularly its sexual component, then and there. She ends up this bizarre day in her life carrying twins, one male and one female, and two and one-half months later — the earliest you can have this done — she has DNA drawn from her fetuses and learns that they have different fathers: one of the babies is Ryan's but the other is … well, we know it's Brent, and the Bells manage to get the police to order him to submit to a DNA test that proves it. But Brent is able to weasel out of the rape charge against him by claiming that Jess had consensual sex with him and intimidating virtually all of the students who were at the party into saying that Jess was "all over" him and clearly was hot for him.

At times "Double Mommy" plays as if Kymlicka was aware her movie was going to be shown right after one of Christine Conradt's and she wanted to make sure she could write something even more insanely melodramatic than the Old Mistress — though she lacks Conradt's skill (or inclination) in creating complex and morally ambiguous characters. Instead "Double Mommy" comes off as a work created more to exploit a provocative title than to tell us anything new (or even not so new) about the human condition, and though I liked the social commentary about how the 1 percent think they can get away with anything and their money can always buy their way out of disastrous or downright evil actions for which the rest of us would pay big-time, other Lifetime movies (can you say "Restless Virgins"?) have done this considerably better.

A young woman is impregnated via two guys and the second one had her drugged before he forced himself on her.

This well done story is basically how the guy with his wealthy family thinks that he can buy himself out of this predicament, only to see that when he is discovered to be the culprit, none of his apparent wealth and family influence can help him. In fact, he goes beyond the misery he caused and murders to quiet those who would expose him.

Nice to see Bruce Boxleitner from the old days of television's "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," in this movie. Older of course, he reluctantly aids his no good son.

The first guy, Ryan, who impregnated her, was the true love of her life and is willing to raise the other child.

A good film depicting societal mores in such a situation.

In life, timing is everything. That adage is no more apparent than in the phenomenon of superfecundation, which is the rare occurrence of twin babies conceived from two different biological fathers. Superfecundation is the reason that Jess is carrying twins, and the unfolding drama of "Double Mommy" is the justice that is sought for this young, victimized mother.

While Ryan, the boyfriend of Jess, was away, his friend and soccer teammate Brent Davick took advantage of the situation by drugging Jess at a party and raping her. After Ryan's return, Jess discovers that she is pregnant with twins by different fathers. But through the money of the wealthy Davick family, she is unable to prosecute Brent.

One by one, witnesses are bought off by the powerful patriarch Scott Davick, who is grooming Brent to take over the family business. Scott and his wife Candace cover for their son. Scott had previously bought off another young woman, Emily, when Brent had committed another felony act. When Candace discovers the drugs used by her son to incapacitate the women, she dumps them down into the garbage disposal.

It is only due to the courage and tenacity of Jess and Ryan that the truth about Brent Davick is slowly revealed to the community. The Davick clan seems to believe that because they have money and privilege and their son is an honors' student, he should not be prosecuted for his heinous offenses. But, at heart, Brent is a criminal. Jess and Ryan eventually find a way to expose ol' number 18 on the soccer field during a game.

The film's climax was a frantic race to stop an out-of-control Brent after he grabs his father's gun and makes a beeline for Jess. The filmmakers even added a denouement with gallows humor when Candace pays a visit to little grandson Charlie and expresses high hopes for his future, due to his genes. Once a Davick always a Davick!!!