Lifetime Television for Women

[funwithcats]

I used to have to watch Lifetime movies when I worked in a rehab clinic for teenage addicts. For some reason TPTB there thought that this was a good way for these kids to spend their Saturday mornings. I remember a lot of derision for Cyber Seduction, which I totally understood. I just couldn't say anything about it in front of the kids.

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I saw one a couple months ago that had the guy who played Leo on Charmed as the husband, and the couple took on this tenant who worked at the hospital where he was a doctor, and it turned out she was crazy and trying to reenact this murder-suicide thing that happened with her parents. When Dr. Leo turned her down she started doing things to embarrass him at work, driving a wedge between the spouses, and finally she ties him to the bed and rapes him and gets it in photographs. It was really long, hilariously bad, and actually a little bit creepy. Does anyone know what it's called?

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I think it would be The Ties That Bind.

I stand by my favorite Lifetime Original, Ebbie, yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Susan Lucci as Scrooge. A classic, if only for the scene where Susan plays a very young woman and talks to her older sister, played by Molly Parker. Comedy gold.

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A year or so ago, I talked my elderly mom into signing up for cable. It took me a long time to get her to agree, but there was simply so little on network TV that she liked, that she decided to give it a try.

When it was finally hooked up, I warned her about Lifetime TV. "Just a warning, Mom, there are a lot of movies on there, but they are about (1) a woman who was raped,
(2) a woman who is about to be raped,
(3) a woman whose daughter was raped
(4) a female surgeon who realizes that the emergency patient she is about to operate on is the guy that raped her back when,

etc., etc., etc.

So, when I'd call and talk to her she'd tell me about some "potboiler" that she watched and give me the play by play. When she was done, I'd ask her "Was it on Lifetime?" and she'd say "Yes". "Well, Mom, I did warn you."

Anyway, it got so there was less and less on cable for her, so now she's cancelled the cable and I've set her up with Neflix. She's always been a big movie lover and this is a LOT cheaper than cable and the movies are better.

[ladymadonna]

I remember the one where Jean Smart played Eileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron's character in Monster), and it was sooooo incredibly bad. Halfway through watching the gut-wrenching Monster, I turned to my mom and said, "I think I remember this story somewhere.", and spent the rest of the movie having flashbacks to the crappy Lifetime version.

We use the Tracy Thurman Story (the one with Jo where her hubby jumps on her head in front of the police), in our advocate training because the real life case brought about some MAJOR changes in the way that law enforcement agencies handle domestic violence cases. So, it's all historical and junk, at least to DV agencies.

Still, a fantastically bad movie.

[nadia]

My Lifetime movie sounds like a good one. "Seduced By Her Cousin: The Truth About Nadia"

I remember my mom making me watch the movie of Tori Spelling getting knifed and I just laughed and laughed. I think that was the point when she realized I may be insane.

The Delta Burke/post-hysterectomy meltdown was a good one too. I was actually scared during that one. Delta plays psycho quite well.

[forever1267]

..and just where is this Lifetime For Me Generator??

[gemstone]

My favorite Lifetime movie had Peg Bundy and some blond chick in it. I want to say it was Tori Spelling, but it might not have been. Anyway, Peg's daughter is accused of murdering her best friend and Peg and said daughter have to find out who the real killer is. I think it wound up being the friends stepfather who killed her because he had gotten her pregnant. The thing I remember most about it, though, is that Peg Bundy's daughter's ear got ripped when her earring got caught as she was tumbling down a hill in the woods. Am I the only one that remembers that movie? It may have originally aired as a movie of the week, but I know that they've shown it on Lifetime before.

ETA: I just looked on IMDB.com and it's called: She Says She's Innocent and it wasn't Tori Spelling.

My other favorite was Doing Time on Maple Drive with Aunt Becky from Full House.

[Beyle]

My two all-time favorite LTMs are The Betty Broderick Story and A Friend to Die For.

Meredith Baxter owned the role of Betty Broderick. I watched a Betty Broderick biography and the movie courtroom dialogue was taken, almost word for word, from the actual court case.

A Friend to Die For had Kellie Martin as Angela DelVecchio who murdered the most popular girl in school, Stacy Lockwood, played by Tori Spelling. I felt sorry for Angela's character. Tori's character was a nasty bitch. Tori's death scene, for me, was unintentionally hilarious.

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gemstone said:

My other favorite was Doing Time on Maple Drive with Aunt Becky from Full House.

Jim Carrey was in that one too! I remember being shocked by that when I saw it a couple years ago. I was also surprised that he'd tried the "serious" acting so early in his career.