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Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992) (TV)
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8 November 1992 (USA) morePlot:
Fact-based story of a homemaker driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival. | add synopsisAwards:
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Great acting by two underrated character actresses. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lesley Ann Warren | ... | Wanda Holloway | |
| Tess Harper | ... | Verna Heath | |
| Dennis Christopher | ... | Randy | |
| Olivia Burnette | ... | Shanna Harper | |
| Lauren Woodland | ... | Amber Heath | |
| Joanna Miles | ... | Joyce | |
| Casey Sander | ... | Tony | |
| Arlen Dean Snyder | |||
| Dale Swann | |||
| Ann Walker | |||
| Lee Chamberlin | |||
| Alan Stepp | ... | Jack Heath | |
| James Calvert | (as Jim Calvert) | ||
| Wayne Duvall | ... | Principal | |
| Kevin E. West |
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This was a tv movie for ABC and while it is far inferior to the rival adaptation HBO made with Holly Hunter and Swoozie Kurtz, it is a 'guilty pleasure' film with excellent lead performances.
Lesley Ann Warren and Tess Harper play suburban Texas mothers whose over- involvement in their daughters' cheerleading auditions leads to havoc. Lesley Ann Warren is fascinatingly eerie as a struggling mother living vicariously through her not-as-talented daughter. Watching her go from manic and nervous to seductive and enraged is a lot of fun and she's good. Tess Harper plays the Perfect Texan Cheerleading Mom to a 't' . Her naive perfectionism and indignant shock at what develops over cheerleading -tryouts- gone -wrong is also a lot of fun. The actresses miscast as the daughters are one-note and uninteresting but one suspects that this was done to highlight the lead actresses work.