Rating: NR
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 05/24/2005
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DS
Run Time: 98 min
Distributor/Studio: Live/Artisan
A woman is thrown into an uneasy alliance with a felon in order to save her daughter's life in this made-for-cable
thriller.
Cheryl (
Alexandra Paul) and
Greg (
Bruce Boxleitner) are the adoptive parents of
Emily (
Annie Bovaird), a young girl who has just been diagnosed with leukemia.
Cheryl and
Greg are stunned by the news, and are unsure of what to do when they're told a bone marrow transplant will be needed to save their little girl's life. The parents discover
Emily's birth father is
Kurt (
Michael Riley), a convicted criminal; he is one of the only people with the marrow needed for
Emily's treatment, but
Kurt happens to have made some enemies in the mob, and in exchange for saving his daughter's life, he begins making demands that
Cheryl is in no position to meet.
Blood Trap was originally produced under the title
Saving Emily, and was originally aired on the
Lifetime cable network in 2004.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide