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Carrie Evans, a beautiful young attorney with aspirations to become partner like her fiancee Steven Riggs, learns some disturbing facts about her family and her boss Caswell Foxx as she researches a big case. She becomes so entrenched in the case that it causes her to risk her career, freedom and her relationships.

Daniel Hugh Kelly and Willa Ford in A Father's Secret (2016)

Oh but the acting !!!! Arthur Roberts the father, has there ever been such an expressionless actor ?? and what father doesn&#39;t react to someone breaking into his daughter&#39;s apartment ??? deadpan face all the time. An ok film for an afternoon&#39;s viewing.

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A Father's Secret

I really wanted to like this film, but I was so distracted by their faces that I could not take it seriously!!!! I reckon they had a nurse on standby with a botox and filler kit ready for topups!
What a shame because it did have the makings of an OK movie, but why oh why can we not have normal looking actors in these movies!
Sorry but thumbs down from me for bad casting and robotic acting .

&quot;A Father&#39;s Secret&quot; (a.k.a., &quot;Hunt for Truth&quot;) is one of those experiences that movie lovers call &quot;guilty pleasures.&quot; The film is so contrived and so excessive in its bathos that it turns into a fun viewing experience to wait for the twists. The focal point of the story is attorney Carrie Evans&#39; relationship to her boss, the powerful head of a prestigious law firm and senatorial candidate, Caswell Foxx. There are so many improbable occurrences in this film that it is actually easy to swallow the revelation that Caswell is the secret father of Carrie, having paid off her mother, a woman from the wrong side of the tracks for the snooty Caswell. One of the most outrageous scenes in the film is when Damon Evans, the supposed father of Carrie, makes a confession in the hospital after he fell down a set of stairs. Damon opens up to Carrie about her mother, Jacquelin, and the man who sired her, Caswell Foxx. It is remarkable that the actors were able to keep a straight face while the sentiment was dripping during this scene. In the homestretch of the film, the action is so wild that it turns into a cascade of clichés. One of the most memorable lines is when Caswell and Carrie are having a violent confrontation after Carrie disrupted Caswell&#39;s campaign speech. In a violent outburst, Caswell cries, &quot;You&#39;re just like your mother!&quot; Those were probably the most truthful words spoken in this over-the-top melodrama.

When shown on television, this film was titled &quot;A Father&#39;s Secret.&quot; Very interesting film highlighting cover-ups with an attorney beyond belief, a sordid past and now this gentleman is running for the United States senate. There are plenty of people around his orbit, including a young female attorney and her father, also an attorney working at the firm. Through determined investigation, Willa Forde, our heroine, soon finds an ever evolving trail of everything I discussed in the second paragraph. The last scene showcasing the downfall of this senate candidate reminded me of A Face in the Crowd. This guy was as manipulative as they would come and would resort to anything, including murder to get what he wanted. The shocking discovery of who the young female lawyer is in relation to this fiend makes this a great film.

A woman lawyer finds out devastating information about her boss when materials are sent to her and she discovers the head attorney&#39;s cover-up in an accident where the workers were blamed instead of management. There are so many revelations regarding her personal life including who her real parents are. The head attorney shall stop at nothing to achieve his goals as he is ready to run for the U.S. senate. This shall include murder as well. The film is a good one; especially, when he is successfully able to ruin the female lawyer, his own daughter, but how she comes back to get even with her. You can think of the ending in the great 1957 film A Face in the Crowd, when Patricia Neal turned the tables on Andy Griffith.

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A Father's Secret

Good story

Spoiled By Bad Acting

"You're Just Like Your Mother!!!"

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