2 couples who knew each other from college days and lived across the street from each other in suburbia are traumatized when on Halloween night, one of the wives is killed. She is the one with the adorable two children. Right away we feel that something is funny because the other friend is childless and is desperate to have children.
We have some real look like others in this film. The widower looks just like John Edwards and a judge at an inquest resembles Bill Clinton.
Other than this, the story is too routine because we soon start to see the evidence mount up on the dead woman's husband. This guy was not such a great fellow apparently as the film goes on. We never meet his lady love who it is claimed has no interest in being a mother to his children.
Naturally, the childless friend becomes very attached to the two children despite being warned not to do so by her husband.
I was looking for conspiracy here. That would have made the film better. Otherwise, it's quite routine.