I'm guessing this was from the bottom of the barrel of Lifetime movies.
An attempt at film noir, done 21st Century style. 'Dark Harbor' is pregnant (pun intended, Lol) with lots of dysfunctional family crap: a standard issue Gen X daughter that's having an illegitimate baby but needs to drink, hates her mom, dislikes her baby-daddy, favors daddy, and generally mopes around and takes photos during her daddy's funeral, but everyone is cool with that. We're supposed to be rooting for this drip, but it was impossible, as she was totally un-likable from scene one, until she finally brutally dispenses with the villain mere minutes after she delivers what appears to be a two-month old Native American baby... :o I bet her Caucasian, New-York-Lawyer baby-daddy will have some things to say about that!
There's an overly dramatic villain that sports a dandy "ay-yep" N'Easterner accent, that is totally unfocused about what the hell he's so mad about. First, he seems to want her, then he wants money from her rich daddy, finally, he seems to want her freshly birthed baby as his own kid... (Hey, it's not the actor's faults! They didn't write the eight-storylines-in-one script, none of which made a lick of sense) Does ANYONE edit these scripts before they start filming?
Nevertheless, I was totally entertained by the villains brand of crazy. Whatever entertainment value is in this TV movie - and trust me it's on the nano particle level - came from the villain's over acting. I also got some major chuckles from the fact that not ONE of these related, dysfunctional, family members even remotely resembled each other. Kudos to the legally blind casting person.
An attempt at film noir, done 21st Century style. 'Dark Harbor' is pregnant (pun intended, Lol) with lots of dysfunctional family crap: a standard issue Gen X daughter that's having an illegitimate baby but needs to drink, hates her mom, dislikes her baby-daddy, favors daddy, and generally mopes around and takes photos during her daddy's funeral, but everyone is cool with that. We're supposed to be rooting for this drip, but it was impossible, as she was totally un-likable from scene one, until she finally brutally dispenses with the villain mere minutes after she delivers what appears to be a two-month old Native American baby... :o I bet her Caucasian, New-York-Lawyer baby-daddy will have some things to say about that!
There's an overly dramatic villain that sports a dandy "ay-yep" N'Easterner accent, that is totally unfocused about what the hell he's so mad about. First, he seems to want her, then he wants money from her rich daddy, finally, he seems to want her freshly birthed baby as his own kid... (Hey, it's not the actor's faults! They didn't write the eight-storylines-in-one script, none of which made a lick of sense) Does ANYONE edit these scripts before they start filming?
Nevertheless, I was totally entertained by the villains brand of crazy. Whatever entertainment value is in this TV movie - and trust me it's on the nano particle level - came from the villain's over acting. I also got some major chuckles from the fact that not ONE of these related, dysfunctional, family members even remotely resembled each other. Kudos to the legally blind casting person.