Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Two Wrongs'

Written by Scott Edwards

Times have certainly changed since I was kid, I can most definitely see that now. Back in my day, if I wanted to get home from school, I would walk home. If I wanted to go play in the park with my friends, be back for dinner. Those days seem to have gone away with all of the fear that surrounds child abduction, and for good reason. With so many sickos out there lying in wait for a child to be on their own, I cannot imagine what I was thinking when I was a kid. I was just told never to talk to strangers and yell if a strange person every approached me.

Being a single parent and a full time in-home nurse, Sarah Harris has her hands full all of the time. Without enough hours in the day, Sarah calls her mother for help when it comes to picking up her daughter Lauren from school. Lauren means the world to Sarah and she does not want anything bad to happen to her baby. Even when Sarah is not able to take a break from work, she brings Lauren with her to the occasional house call, but there is something strange about her new patient.

Visiting Gerald, the new patient with her daughter, Sarah gets a strange vibe off of the old man and does not want her daughter around him. Not thinking that there is anything wrong, just a feeling, Sarah goes on with her normal life and when it is her day to pick Lauren up from school, she gets caught up in a medical emergency. Lauren thinks that it would be okay to walk home on her own and sneaks out of the school yard, only to be picked up by a stranger. Not knowing where her daughter is, Sarah reacts like any parent would when their child goes missing, but when she gets a phone call from the kidnapper, she is instructed to do something completely out of the ordinary. 

Getting some supplies from her doctor’s office, Sarah arrives at Gerald’s home and ties him up. Not knowing the reason why, Sarah needs to find answers before something bad happens to her daughter. When her mother finds out what is going on, she joins in on the hostage situation and when the women find out who Gerald really is, they know that he has something to do with the missing girl. As phone calls are exchanged with the kidnapper, more directions are given, but when being told to kill the man in her possession, Sarah cannot go through with it and hatches a plan to find her daughter with Gerald. Now a pedophile and a worried mother are on the hunt for a little girl, and while nothing should stop them, there is an unknown threat to Lauren that nobody was willing to see. 

A very disturbing look at how far someone would go to get some sort of revenge. Not knowing the motive behind the kidnapping, Sarah is thrown into the mix of something that she may never understand and needs to trust a man that used to be a menace to society, and well that shows how far she would go to protect her daughter. Most of the time I do not like to see the criminals in movies like this being portrayed as human, as they are supposed to be monsters, but it works in Two Wrongs, and although you know what they have done is wrong, you develop feelings for them as well. A decent movie that gives a couple twists and has a strong moral center, and you may think twice about who you do business with as their enemies may be looking for revenge and don’t care who gets thrown into the mix.

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