Dakota Fanning emotionally perverted bond with Diane Lane the mother of the other girl in the headline making duo.
During a childhood birthday outing gone wrong the two girls kidnap a baby and let her die. The film follows what happens when they are grown up and again a part of society taking the sacredness of the mother-daughter relationship and twisting it into something use says Lane. Fanning's Ronnie is desperate for attention, which Lane's rapacious
Helen Manning is happy to provide while also rejecting her own daughter,
Alice Danielle Macdonald Helen's love is conditional, and predatory.
We are in so many ways that can not be calculated until it is too late, in terms of shepherding children.
The details of why she wasn't a force of nurturing for her daughter is fun speculation for an actor.