I decided to bite the bullet and watch a Lifetime movie last night. ::::shudder::::
I only watched Ambulance Girl because Kathy Bates was in it. I caught the first hour then decided to go to bed but now I’m curious as to what happened.
I watched up until:
She went on her first run to help the old lady with the broken hip, royally f*cked it up, then went home telling her husband she couldn’t do it anymore
So what happened after that?
I can’t believe I care.
It’s still on the DVR. Mrs. Plant was watching it.
As I recall He became angry that her job was taking her away. They were going to divorce and the death or near death of the riding guy brought them back and they lived happily ever after.
Natch. This is why I usually avoid Lifetime’s Moment of Truth Movies.
Thanks for the update.
My mother told me about this movie, and insisted that I watch it. I usually like Kathy Bates, but from the previews I saw her dropping the dummy in class and dropping the med bag on an actual patient and being a way too Eager Beaver type - typical Lifetime Glurge-of-the-Week crap.
As an actual EMT, will I be cringing and throwing things at the TV, or is it worth my time?
(I taped it, and haven’t had time today to watch it)
From what I did watch, you should avoid at all costs, especially since you are an actual EMT. It’s friggin’ ridiculous. The only, and I mean only, reason I turned it on was because of the lovely Kathy Bates. How she got herself embroiled in that heap of shit is beyond me. Stupid Lifetime.
Thanks, I’ll just rewind the tape without watching it and without feeling guilty. My cable guide said Kathy Bates directed it, too. Was it really a horrible sap-fest?
Horrible sap-fest? I don’t think there’s an adjective strong enough. I just hope that Ms. Bates did look at her finished product and get puffed up with pride.
It’s nothing to be proud of. I don’t get it because she usually plays such amazing characters and attaches herself to projects that are emotionally visceral and creative. I guess everyone stands knee-deep in shit sometimes.
I still love her though.
Maybe Ms. Bates loved the book and so wanted to do the movie. I haven’t read Ambulance Girl, but I’ve really loved and enjoyed the other books I’ve read that were written by Jane Stern (usually with her husband Michael). I considered watching the movie, but forgot. Anyway I was a bit nervous as it was on Lifetime (home of glurge, in my experience). I need to get the book when I go to the library, I’d be awfully surprised if it was a sapfest, though.
Wait a minute.
This woman is as actress? Are we talking about the same movie here?
Ambulance Girl? Isn’t Kathy Bates like 50 or 60 something?
Hmmm (google)
Birth Name: Kathleen Bates
Date of Birth: June 28, 1948
Yes she is - was she the EMT trainee?
Yes.
Fo some reason I thought this was a new series not just a movie.
Weird.
Well even if the book is good and unsappy, once Lifetime gets ahold of it, it’s saccharin city. Blech.
Jane Stern (author of the original book) is in her 50s. And the book is a true story – she was apparently (remember, I haven’t read the book yet, only the blurb on the inside) in the midst of a mid-life depression of some kind, and with her long-term marriage feeling a bit rocky, decided to try to become an EMT despite her age (and the fact that she is quite obese – quite a bit larger, in fact, than Kathy Bates). The title of the book was tongue in cheek. The book was released several years ago and the events described in the book took place several years before that, but the Sterns have apparently come through their hard times. Anyway, they’re still married.
Anyway, I’m willing to defend Ms. Stern by saying that, based on her other books, the book was probably not a sucky sapfest. Having moved through Lifetime’s digestive tract, however, I’m sure the movie had as much resemblance to the book as the fried bean burrito I ate for dinner this evening will have to my AM turd tomorrow morning.
Who played Michael Stern in the movie, BTW?
I didn’t know it was based on a true story, much less those Sterns. I have a couple of their books. One of my favorites is Square Meals. It’s really funny, and very entertaining.
My mother insisted I watch it, because she thought the main character was going to be just like me*. I took the EMT course this summer, and I’m also older than the typical person who takes it (I’m 40), but I had the full support of my husband (20+ year firefighter). I could tell just from the ads that I’d hate it.
She called a while ago, asking if I’d watched it. I lied and said I watched a little of it, but thought it sucked and turned it off. She was PO’ed at me. I said it was typical Lifetime crap.
*She also thinks the characters on the show Still Standing are just like my husband and me (and our kids), and can’t understand why we don’t watch it every week. I watched it a few times and was highly insulted (other than the fact that I’m brunette and my husband’s kinda chubby and balding, we bear NO resemblence to the family on that show). I told her as much and she was shocked.
You have a way with metaphors. :rolleyes:
Why thank you – I thought it was rather elegant, myself.
My mother thought so too. Hmm. Must have been something about the commercial.
I couldn’t have stated it more beautifully! 