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9 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
As good as a TV movie gets, 17 December 2003

Author: jamie_likeskylie from United Kingdom

This movie recently debuted on TV in the UK. It was surprisingly great. Jennifer Beals plays a great diva and Keri Lynn Platt is really convincing as a psycho. Very similar to The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Fatal Attraction (without the sex). Traci Lords has a small role as a TV presenter with a grudge against Sloane (Beals). Great soundtrack, performed by Beals and she looks hot! Watch this movie with few expectations and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Great fun for Jennifer Beals fans, 9 December 2005

Author: ukxenafan1 from United Kingdom

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I love Jennifer Beals in the L Word, and this is a great fun film for others like me who caught on relatively recently to Ms Beals charms!

She looks FABULOUS as 40ish pop icon Sloan McBride, whose new assistant has an long standing grudge against her,and wages a Single White Female like campaign to ruin her life..

Of course, the film is pure tosh, but its entertaining tosh! Jennifer Beals looks gorgeous, and I believe, does her own singing too! She gets to be mildly bitchy as the diva pop queen, and unlike so many of her TV movies, she isn't playing second fiddle to some guy.

The rest of the cast are forgettable, the script and plot fairly predictable, but it's a decent enough effort. However, this is strictly for Beals fans I think!

6 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Now called "They Shoot Divas, Don't They?", 8 October 2002

Author: swill-2 from Massachusetts, USA

I saw this on VH1 the other night with the new title "They Shoot Divas, Don't They?" Whether that was to distinguish it from the pretty bad movie, "Slow Burn" with James Spader and Minnie Driver, or to tie-in with VH1's "Divas" I leave for you to decide. It is a pretty standard psycho with an agenda flick that happens to be set in the music business. Jennifer Beals plays Sloan McBride, a Cher-like diva on the brink of turning 40 and desperate to have another hit in a market driven by teen Britney wannabes. Through a series of seeming coincidences, she gets a new personal assistant who is the abovementioned psycho with an agenda. The body count is pretty low-- just two or three, I think-- and the splatter is kept to a minimum (it is a movie for TV, after all), but it's reasonably well plotted and directed and it does seem to at least have a passing acquaintance with the contemporary music biz. Beals is the best thing about it though. It's worth seeing.

10 out of 18 people found the following review useful:
great soundtrack!, 10 April 2005

Author: rebecca-uyttersprot from Belgium

This has to be the best movie ever written, I can't understand why it hasn't been in the theatres. I must admit that after Flashdance I haven't seen another movie with Jennifer Beals, not only did she become a really stunning woman, she really is a great actress. I have seen the movie (They shoot divas, don't they) twice by now. I love it but most of all I simply adore the music! I have searched the internet and in libraries but where the f... can I buy the soundtrack?????????? I really love "Slow Burn" and "Stand down" but unless I've got incorrect information there is no CD from the movie and I would really like to have the complete songs. Can anybody help me? The music is simply divine and it's such a shame that it isn't available, I would really like to buy it.

0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Slooow Burn!, 12 November 2010

Author: sol1218 from brooklyn NY

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

***SPOILERS*** A tale full of suicide murder and revenge peppers the made for TV thriller "They Shoot Divas, Don't They" staring top music video diva the over the hill and pushing 40 Sloan McBride, Jennifer Beals, who's past has suddenly caught of with her. Not Sloan's age but the song "Slow Burn" that made her an overnight sensation in the music video world back in 1985.

It's Jenny Wyle, Keri Lynn Pratt, who's been waiting for the right moment to strike at the now fading from the limelight Sloan and now after 17 years of waiting planning and hoping she's ready to make her move on the diva! By destroying what left of her career in the music world as well as those connected with her in it! Getting a job in Sloan's private circle of friends and admirers Jenny at first ingratiate her way into Sloan's heart and then does everything to break it! Break it in like putting and end to her life!

Like a spider weaving a web Jenny slowly isolates her boss Sloan McBride first from the world of reality and then of the living. Taking out Sloan's publicity agent Diane, Molly Hagen, in a faked carjacking Jenny then has Sloan's boyfriend and record director/producer Trevor Mason, Johathon Schaech, framed for statutory rape. This has an outraged Sloan kick the confused and befuddled Trevor out of her mansion as well as her bedroom! Besides Sloan it's Jay Darrenberg, David Bowe, that Jenny want's most to stick it to! He's the one together with Sloan that Jenny holds responsible for her mom's, Clara Wyle, death back in 1985! It was Clara who was to originally record the song "Slow Burn" that was to make Solan McBride a household word in the world of rock and music video! That Jenny feels both Sloan and Jay stole from Clara that lead to her killing herself.

***SPOILERS*** Turning her hateful fury on Jay, as well as Sloan, for driving her mom to commit suicide Jenny was to find out after it was too late that she was wrong all these years about her moms death as well as her losing out on making the platinum video song "Slow Burn". And the worst was yet to come in her finding out the truth about her own families past history! And the real reason behind her mom losing out in making the music video "Slow Burn" whom the person who both wrote and produced the song Jenny blew away!

P.S look for former porn star and later legitimate film actress Traci Lord as Mina Long the TV talk show host on who's show Sloan freaked out on due to Jenny slipping her a bottle full of downers in her health drink!

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