But mainly he provides the “aha!” backstory on the increasingly problematic Anna. Williams, playing a friend of John’s who does investigative work, makes a few hilariously sudden appearances just when he’s needed. In a throwaway part as John’s rival at the law firm, Romany Malco gets to wear well-tailored suits. The human characters are barely more fleshed out than the sacrificial feline.
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He telegraphs Anna’s muddled malevolence - most egregiously in the ample attention he pays Laura’s elderly cat, who’s rather charmingly named Miss Havisham and clearly won’t go gentle into that good night. When The Bough Breaks (2016).John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. Working from a screenplay by Jack Olsen that’s constructed from recycled ideas, cheap shots and zero compassion, director John Cassar spotlights his able cast’s good looks, along with some striking Louisiana locations. Practiced in the art of self-help affirmations, she’s not taking no for an answer.
Once the Taylors have made her comfy in their guesthouse, Anna makes the moves on John. Her twitchy fiancé (Theo Rossi) is a red flag to John or anyone else paying attention, but Laura is so eager to start a family, and so convinced that Anna’s the answer to her prayers, that soon the two women are bonding over the embryo implantation procedure and going to yoga classes together. Anna ( Jaz Sinclair) first appears in pastel pink with the crinkly smile of a good Samaritan.