and lived to tell about it. Which is more than I can say for the unfortunate individuals in the movies.
In the first one, the town’s preacher is suspected of murdering the abusive husband of a congregant with whom he was having a relationship. John Stamos was the minister.
In the second, Adam Arkin, who plays fringe-y wierdo types better than almost anyone except Christopher Walken, is suspected of murdering his wife and possibly previous wives, too. “Based on a true story.”
In the third, Murder in the Hamptons, which was the most satisfying of the three, a crazy blond opportunist marries a self-made rich nice guy and proceeds to get crazier and crazier to the point of gratifying (to the viewer) absurdity, and then meets poetic justice after her husband is murdered. Also “based on a true story.”
Ahhh, I see The Victim Channel is still going strong. I love how they present the main female characters as either being abused saints or flawed people driven to the brink of insanity because of forces out of their control. It doesn’t really matter which it is because you know a man is still going to pay for it with his life or go to prison forever at the end.
A few years ago, I got sucked into Lifetime for the day. It was a movie about an abusive boyfriend, a woman who’s a sex addict, and then an actual studio movie I’d never heard of - Mimi’s First Time. Nikki Reed decides to become a hooker, and her first client is her stepdad, and they start a relationship and murder the drunken mother, played by Carrie Ann Moss (or whatever her name is from The Matrix).
It was actually really good.
ETA - Alec Baldwin played the stepdad. Really really good movie, as B movies go!
They used to play “The Rape of Richard Beck”, which is now available on DVD under the title “Deadly Justice”. It’s about a male police officer who has a really bad attitude about rape victims…until he becomes one. :eek: It was made about 30 years ago, and the lead actor, Richard Crenna, won an Emmy. It’s very powerful and thought-provoking.
There’s another movie they show occasionally called “The Cover-Up” which had a limited theatrical release. That one is about one of my high school classmates; there were over 500 in our class and while I knew his sister, I never heard of him until after his death. Long story made short: In 1983, when he was 20 years old, he was arrested for DUI in a city 40 miles from our hometown, and found the next morning dead in an alley between the 4-story police station and another building. He’d clearly been beaten, and the debate is still raging as to whether he was jumped or pushed. IDK if this is actually true, but the movie said that he made frequent trips to this other town, unknown to his family and friends, because he had a boyfriend in that town and his family and friends did not know he was gay. He was known to have a very serious drinking problem, and there were implications that he was also going there to make a drug connection.
Awhile ago my daughter worked for Charter Cable, and after a recent channel shuffle she got a call from an irate customer wondering how to get Lifetime Movies channel back. She said he was very upset, and that it was his favorite movie channel and had to have it back!
I haven’t watched Lifetime in awhile but does anybody remember when they used to show Goodfellas on a regular basis? I wondered why they thought that film fit in with their usual fare.
