Anchor Baby Movie Ending Explained

Anchor Baby movie ending shows a mother who is separated from her child without being able to get him back in her embrace.

The movie is a thriller drama written, directed and produced by Lonzo Nzrkwe, a Canadian-based Nigerian.

The movie’s main cast includes Omoni Oboli, Sam Sarpong, Terri Oliver and Santiago Lopera who gave their best performance for the movie.

It has received 6.3 out of 10 IMDb ratings and has a total runtime of 1 hour and 35 minutes.

The movie won the Best Film Award at the 2010 Harlem International Film Festival in New York.

While the actress Omoni Oboli, the protagonist of the movie, earned the Best Actress award at the same film festival.

It received two nominations at the 7th African Movie Academy Awards.

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Anchor Baby Movie Ending Explained

Anchor Baby movie ends with a tragic scene where Joyce is unable to get her baby from Susan even if she wanted to.

A few days after her baby was born, her baby receives a passport issued in the States. But when she checks the name, she finds the baby’s last name Backley.

Joyce becomes distraught, as she had never expected to be troubled by such an issue.

Susan tells her that she should consult her attorney. When she reaches to her attorney, he washes his hand out of it saying he can’t do anything.

But he gives an idea of Susan taking her baby back to Nigeria while she surrenders to the immigration office. Plus the attorney assures to talk to the immigration officer.

While Joyce, her baby, and Sarah come to the airport, Joyce goes to surrender to the immigration. When she surrenders, Joyce is handcuffed.

But when she asks when she will be sent to Nigeria, the officer there says that there is no name booked for her return back to Nigeria that day.

She says that the immigration officer should know about her but that person had passed in an operation a month ago and she doesn’t even her attorney’s name properly.

She is taken into custody and she tries to call Susan, but she responds without knowing about it and cuts the call. She tries to call again, but Susan has changed the number.

Revealed by the truth that she has been manipulated and her baby taken away, she is shocked not knowing what to do.

Steve comes out of a taxi. When he reaches the vehicle, he greets Susan and Joyce’s attorney John together. John thanks him and gives him a bundle of money. When Steve goes away, John and Susan also go away.

After riding someplace, Susan opens the vehicle’s door and throws her fake pregnancy stomach showing that she was never pregnant. While the entire drama of theirs was to take the baby away from Joyce.

Joyce, on the other hand has no idea what to do when she is escorted by officers to her terminal. When she looks at the other people’s children at the terminal, she can’t move as she misses her son and no tears come out of her eyes are blackened due to excessive crying already.

At last, a lonely mother just takes her step out of the door without her child in her embrace with her suitcase in tow. From the beginning, she has met Susan, she has been led to believe she was there to help her, and Joyce was manipulated to accept the help.

Now, the person who helped her has backstabbed her with such pain she doesn’t how to go on with it.

Will There Be Anchor Baby Part 2?

No, there will be no Anchor Baby movie part 2 or any additional movie based on it. The rest will depend upon the director Lonzo Nzekwe.

The movie ends with Joyce having to return to her country Nigeria. Meanwhile, her baby was abducted by Susan and her attorney John but she can’t prove that the baby was hers with the legal documents as all the child documentation is based on Susan’s.

Even if she can prove that she is the child’s mother, she can’t step back into America as she has been deported from the States and is prohibited to return.

There is almost no option for her to do anything but reminisce about her baby.

Due to such factors, the movie’s second part is almost impossible to create as the movie will have to be created on a factual basis. The director Lonzo Nzekwe will either have to make a separate new character with a similar story.

But there is no point in creating a movie with a similar story as the first counterpart.

Meet The Cast Of Anchor Baby

Anchor Baby cast consists of Omoni Oboli, Sam Sarpong, Terri Oliver and Mark Cassius.

Omoni Oboli

Omoni plays the role of Joyce Unanga in the movie Anchor Baby. In the movie, she is manipulated, and her baby is abducted by her manipulator without her till the end.

Omoni Oboli is a Nigerian actress, scriptwriter, film director, and producer born on April 22, 1978. The actress was born in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

She is a descendant of Mosogar. She completed her secondary school in Benin City and studied at the University of Benin, graduating in French.

She first started her acting career with her first movie in, Bitter Encounter, in 1996. Though she took some hiatus from the movies, she continued to act from 2007 in various movies such as Guilty Pleasure, Bent Arrow, The Duplex, Spotlight, It’s Her Day and Moms at War.

Sam Sarpong

Sam plays the role of Paul Unanga in the movie. He is married to Joyce in the movie and is deported to Nigeria after he is found to have extended his stay in the United States without any authorization.

Sam Sarpong was born on December 19, 1974, as a British actor, supermodel and musician. He was born in London and grew up in Los Angeles.

He wanted to move to a professional basketball career but was unsuccessful. The actor passed away on 26 October 2015 by jumping from the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California.

Terri Oliver

Terri plays the role of Susan Backley. In the movie, she seems to take care of Joyce but she manipulates her to take Joyce’s baby for herself. She even faked being pregnant to gain empathy from Joyce.

Actress Terri Oliver is an independent singer and songwriter, actor, and professional acting coach who has been teaching many young people the profession they love.

She was originally from Nova Scotia but spent a few years in Toronto before finally beginning her international career in Asia and Europe.

Terri is not much prominent actress in movies, but she has been working as a voice actor in various anime series, such as Pururu from Sgt. Frog, Millais ALLOY from Mobile Suit Gundam AGE and Kaoruko Sazaki from Gundam Build Fighters Try.

Mark Cassius

Mark plays the role of John Rogdougougan. In the movie, John plays the role of attorney, and he is the one who suggests Joyce surrender. But secretly, he is Susan’s husband.

Mark Cassius is a singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and musician. He is best known for his world-renowned acapella group called The Nylons.

His major works are all on Broadway, as he has acted in many plays. Other than that, he has also been working as a vocal coach in many theatre and music training programs.

As the actor is focused on Broadway acting, he has only acted in a select few movies such as Comfort and Joy, Bollywood/Hollywood, and The Dreamcoat Special.

His Broadway plays include Ragtime, Shenandoah, Damn Yankees, The Little Mermaid, Sweet Charity and Souzatska.