Lifetime Television for Women

[dwanollah]

Friends 'til the End is AWESOME! I need to see if it's on DVD. Oh, and:

"The Story of Laurie Kellogg," or whatever, when Jennie Garth marries too young, gets abused, may or may not have killed her husband, and roller skates a LOT.

I caught that on a hotel telly, like, 10 years ago, and it was magic, I tell you!

*off to amazon*

[carrier76]

Wow! You named all the ones I like. "Kate's Secret" is okay, except for the scene where she goes crazy in the kitchen and the scene where she eats everything in the grocery store.

Okay, I SWEAR that LMN edited part of it out. Because I was certain there was a scene when she was chugging chocolate milk in the store. My friend and I both remember it, and yet, when I taped it off of LMN, that scene is not there.

I thought of more!!!

"She Fought Alone" with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Brian Austin Green, when she gets raped and everyone thinks she's a slut. Someone writes "SLUT" on the mirror with nail polish and they can't figure out how to get it off, until the detective comes up and wipes it off w/ nail polish remover.

"Lying Eyes," which was on LMN this weekend, with the guy who played David Heyward on AMC and now plays David Chow on Y&R. He likes to sleep with teenagers, and the girl who he last slept with is being stalked by an old girlfriend. LOTS of stupidness.

ANY of them w/ eating disorders are good.

There's another one w/ Brian Austin Green and Nicholle Tom, who played SUE SCANLON on 90210, and she gets pregnant w/ his baby, and "can't handle it" so he has to raise the baby. He was way too nice to her in that movie when she wanted the baby back.

You know one I actually saw that I did think was good and not stupid? I forget the name, but it had Sarah Jessica Parker as this cracked out mom of five kids who get put into a foster home mothered by Sally Struthers. The struggles those kids have to go through and how it affects them almost makes me cry. And I don't even really like kids.

[swanflake]

carrier76 said:

Wow! You named all the ones I like. "Kate's Secret" is okay, except for the scene where she goes crazy in the kitchen and the scene where she eats everything in the grocery store.

Okay, I SWEAR that LMN edited part of it out. Because I was certain there was a scene when she was chugging chocolate milk in the store. My friend and I both remember it, and yet, when I taped it off of LMN, that scene is not there.

I remember it too. She drank milk in the store and ate some of those pre-packaged snack cakes and then left the store and threw up in the alley behind the store or somewhere.

Eating disorder movies crack me up. Our gymnastics coaches made us watch "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" once and I started laughing hysterically when the main character told her mother "If you make me eat I'm going to go THROW IT ALL UP!!!" or whatever she said.

[tinyshoes]

I remember watching one where John Stamos plays this suave charmer-type who turns out to be a serial killer and I think he goes after his stepdaughter's friend. Anyone remember the title?

My own Lifetime movies (thanks Lifetime Movie Generator) are as follows:

A Wheelchair Called Tinyshoes
Love's Dark Habit
The Brutal Lesion of Tinyshoes

[funwithcats]

Nice. Mine were:

The Funwithcats Story: It's My Pregnancy, Damn It
I Loved My Habit Too Much: The Untold Story of Funwithcats
Menace of a Hooker: The Life of Funwithcats

Fun!

[bossyboots]

This is the hardest I've laughed in a long, long time.

Here are mine:
I Woke Up Vitamin-Poor: The True Story of Shorty (scurvy)
Shorty: Love Me, Love My Sore (also scurvy)
My Stalker, I Thee Wed: The Shorty Spice Story (stalking)
Not Without My Kidnapped Daughter

I could do this all day.

I'm not sure if my favourite TV movie, Can You Feel Me Dancing? is a LMN movie or not. It certainly qualifies. Justine Bateman plays a blind woman who's struggling for independence against her over-protective parents. I remember a scene where the love interest is showing her colours by doing things like giving her a hot potato and saying, "this is red!" or somesuch. It was made in the Family Ties heyday so I was willing to watch pretty much anything that had to do with FT.

[Wenton]

linared said:

I remember another one, a mom and her friend are locked up because they took some pictures of their kids in their underwear and they got accused of creating child porn. It looked pretty bizzare and do we really need a movie about the unfairness of child porn laws?

I remember that one. Mare Winningham played the mom and Felicity Huffman was her charmingly nutty photographer sister. The most atrocious part, for me, was when they played a technopop cover version of "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" just before the credits rolled.

[carrier76]

I'm not sure if my favourite TV movie, Can You Feel Me Dancing? is a LMN movie or not. It certainly qualifies. Justine Bateman plays a blind woman who's struggling for independence against her over-protective parents. I remember a scene where the love interest is showing her colours by doing things like giving her a hot potato and saying, "this is red!" or somesuch. It was made in the Family Ties heyday so I was willing to watch pretty much anything that had to do with FT.

OH MY GOD. My friend and I rented this a couple of years ago. HILARIOUS. Justine Bateman does a HORRIBLE job playing a blind person, too!!!! BAD!!! Ha. Her boyfriend was a douchebag.

"Terror in the Family," anyone? A little Joanna-Kerns-drunk-pizza, anyone?

[sugarhigh]

You know one I actually saw that I did think was good and not stupid? I forget the name, but it had Sarah Jessica Parker as this cracked out mom of five kids who get put into a foster home mothered by Sally Struthers. The struggles those kids have to go through and how it affects them almost makes me cry. And I don't even really like kids.

I've seen that one a couple of times and yeah it was pretty good. SJP did a great job and the kids were really affecting.

Didn't Judith Light do one where she had Munchausen's by proxy? I vaguely remember that.

[trifle]

I believe the SJP movie is In the Best Interests of the Children. It's really good, and based on a true story. I have always wondered what became of those kids.