Favorite Trashy TV Movies

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:50am

I think mine is A Face to Die For with Yasmine Bleeth.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:56am

I like DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER (with Kelly Martin & Tori Spelling). It was originally called A FRIEND TO DIE FOR, which I think was a better title. (I wonder why they changed it.) Anyway, it's about this homely girl who is constantly picked on by this popular cheerleader she admires and hoped to befriend, and in a fit of rage the girl stabs the cheerleader to death. It's based on a true story.

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 03:56 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 4:25am

WILLING TO KILL: THE TEXAS CHEERLEADER STORY - 1992

(Fact-based story of a homemaker driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival)

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 04:25 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 4:42am

The Amy Fisher Trilogy:
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AMY FISHER: MY STORY - 1992
*details Amy Fisher's point of view
starring Noelle Parker as Amy Fisher
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THE AMY FISHER STORY - 1993
*details the public's point of view
starring Drew Barrymore as Amy Fisher
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CASUALTIES OF LOVE: THE LONG ISLAND LOLITA STORY - 1993
*details the Buttafuoco family's point of view
starring Alyssa Milano as Amy Fisher
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Updated On: 8/15/06 at 04:42 AM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:51pm

Lesley Ann Warren was good in that, Wanna Be a Foster.

Have you seen the mockumentary version of the story with Holly Hunter? It's pretty great.

[peach]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:53pm

There was a Lifetime movie (that says it all!) a while back in which Tori Spelling played a nice college girl who started working for an escort service. I think it was called "Coed Call Girl" or something like that. It was so bad it was good!

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:58pm

Confessions of a Sorority Girl with Jamie Luner, Alyssa Milano, and Brian Bloom is a lot of fun. It was made as a throwback to the "youth gone wrong" films of the late 50s like Sorority Girl and Teenage Confidential.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:00pm

My all-time favorite Lifetime movie titles are "SHE WOKE UP PREGNANT" and "MY DAUGHER, THE STREETWALKER." Just classic!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:00pm

"Twirl" with Erin Moran, Lisa Welchel and Donna McKechnie
"Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic" with Linda Blair
"Born Innocent" with Linda Blair (she goes to Juvey)
"Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway" with Eve Plumb (teenage prostitution
"Adam: the other side of Dawn" sequel to Dawn, w/Eve Plumb and Leigh McCloskey as teenage hookers

Miniseries:
"Hollywood Wives"

This question comes up regularly, and my list never changes.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:13pm

Damn, these are getting me all excited. Why aren't they out on DVD? They're classics!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:15pm

Mother May I Sleep With Danger? Classic Spelling.

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 03:15 PM

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:16pm

Oh...and Markie Post "Chasing the Dragon" (freebasing)
and Meredith Baxter Birney as a bulimic
and Tuesday Weld as an elder abuser, mom was Geraldine Fitzgerald
and the Tony Geary movie about herpes
and the Judith Light movie where she beats her husband, played by Peter Strauss.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:17pm

My favorite:

"Secret Cutting", starring the inimitable Sean Young as a worried mother with a depressed, insecure daughter who secretly slices her own flesh with razor blades and hides the scars from her family, until her mother finds her panties in the laundry with little neat blood-lines on them.


Delish!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:22pm

Jaily, the typical mother would just assume she was menstruating.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:23pm

Sean Young scared the hell out of me in that.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:24pm

The true classic TV movies, were done in the 70's. Films like, CAGE WITHOUT A KEY with Susan Dey, and WOMEN IN CHAINS, with Lois Nettleton, Jessica Walter and Ida Lupino! They're the ones I want on DVD! Those and about a hundred others.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:27pm

It wasn't menstrual blood...it was little neat, perfect lines of blood up near the waistband, because she always cut herself right under the waist of her panties so nobody would see the cuts.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:27pm

"Face of Evil" with Growing Pains' Tracey Gold...
That girl has done quite a few trashy TV movies, right?

[peach]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:30pm

^^ Yes, Tracey Gold has done quite a few of these. Also, Meredith Baxter Birney - I think she's on payroll at Lifetime!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:32pm

Yes! Remember the Betty Broderick films, parts 1 and 2?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:33pm

DEFENDING OUR KIDS: THE JULIE POSEY STORY - 2003 - Lifetime

(After a pedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.)

starring Annie Potts as a 45 year old woman posing as a 14 year old girl posing as a 12 year old girl lookin' for love in all the wrong places

Updated On: 8/15/06 at 03:33 PM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:38pm

VIDEO VOYEUR: THE SUSAN WILSON STORY - 2002 - Lifetime

(A Louisiana woman discovers that a trusted neighbor has installed video surveillance equipment in her home to spy on her family. As a result, the real-life Wilson lobbied for a 1999 state law passed in nine other states since making video voyeurism a felony.)

starring Angie Harmon (in her first and only project since leaving Law & Order)

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:40pm

Ladykillers with Thomas Calabro and Marilu Henner as cops investigating murders at a male strip club. Lesley-Anne Down plays the owner of the club, Susan Blakely is one of the suspects, and Playgirl's Scott Layne plays one of the strippers.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:42pm

HOT. Was that one on Lifetime?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:45pm

It's been on Lifetime, but that's not where it aired originally.