celestial_princess I saw this movie when it was new back in 1993, when I was just a teenager. What a great movie. It stars Lori Loughlin as Jane, a woman with two children who is told her third child was stillborn due to narcotics found in her bloodstream. But she knows that's impossible because she never did drugs and the baby kicked in the car on the way to the hospital. Unfortunately, nobody believes her, not even her husband or best friend. But we find out shortly after that Jane is telling the truth: Nurse Rita Donahue (played by Kate Jackson) drugged her and stole her baby girl in an effort to get her boyfriend Frank to marry her. Then we find out Frank is married with three daughters and desperately wants a son, so Rita makes plans to steal another baby soon after. This movie is full of suspense, and it's truly shocking and disturbing to see just how far Rita will go to get what she wants. The most astounding part is that she almost gets away with it! But thankfully, the truth eventually comes out and Jane is reunited with her child. See it at any cost. It's one of Lifetime's best TV movies.

tnp91-1 I was really intrigued by this movie, it made me really realized that I should be grateful that now hospitals are now more strict with their rules when it comes to new mothers and their newborn baby. Kate Jackson played a real conniving nurse who would do anything to hold on to a man even though he was already married, it is sort of like the other Lifetime movie "Small Sacrifices", in which a woman did the impossible just to hold onto a man, which includes murder. "Empty Cradle" is a movie that makes you think about who to trust and who not to trust. It also makes great entertainment for women who love to sit around and watch good entertaining and suspenseful movies.

domino1003 Not your typical TV movie of the week: A young woman (Lori Loughlin) gives birth in a hospital, then is told that her baby is dead. She is convinced that her baby is alive. Turns out that she's right: Her nurse Rita (A chilling Kate Jackson) stole her little baby girl, just so she can hold on to her married lover. You have 2 stories going on throughout the film: A woman determined to find her child and faces obstacles from her husband and the hospital administration, and a woman that would go through ANY lengths to hold on to her man.What's startling about the film is the scene in which a pregnant woman is killed by Rita and her baby stolen. Unfortunately, there have been many cases like this one. Like Rita, people will do ANYTHING to possess a child. Jackson's performance was (and still is) incredibly creepy. Eriq La Salle plays a detective that gets involved with the goings on in the story. You really don't see too much of him until the later part of the movie.It's a very intriguing film and worth a look.

travsgirl I thought the people acting in this movie were great. I just can't understand how someone would want a child so badly that they would do what this woman did! And the fact that she drug her son into it making him a part of the crimes.