A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
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| Joanna Kerns | ... | Celeste Cooper | |
| Christine Elise | ... | Laurel Cooper Rogers | |
| Grant Show | ... | Ted Rogers | |
| Jessica Walter | ... | Joan | |
| Sherman Augustus | ... | Dale Cutler | |
| David Spielberg | ... | George Cooper | |
| Kristen Dalton | ... | Lynn | |
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Jeanette O'Connor | ... | Harriet Rogers |
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Michael Covert | ... | Burt Willis |
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Eric Robertson | ... | Michael |
| Annabelle Weenick | ... | Aide | |
| Giselle Fernandez | ... | Newscaster | |
| Jeff Olson | ... | Minister | |
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Alan Gregory | ... | IRS Supervisor |
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Douglas Caputo | ... | Frank |
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A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
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Celeste Cooper: [with the reporters] Laurel?
[Laurel glares at her]
Celeste Cooper: It's not too late to tell them, sweetheart. Tell them, Laurel. Tell them I did it all for you.
Laurel Cooper Rogers: [bows her head down in anger] Goodbye, mother.
Celeste Cooper: [leaves with the reporters] That's okay, she's just confused. When this is over, she'll know that I was right, and everything will be back to normal. Everything will be normal again.
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[last lines]Celeste Cooper: [with the reporters] Laurel?
[Laurel glares at her]
Celeste Cooper: It's not too late to tell them, sweetheart. Tell them, Laurel. Tell them I did it all for you.
Laurel Cooper Rogers: [bows her head down in anger] Goodbye, mother.
Celeste Cooper: [leaves with the reporters] That's okay, she's just confused. When this is over, she'll know that I was right, and everything will be back to normal. Everything will be normal again.
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A friend had seen this flick a while back and recommended it, and I happened to see it listed for a rerun on "Lifetime" today.
Glanced at the prior comments here, and after viewing this opus, would agree with their positive viewpoints.
Joanna Kerns' evil mom was as delightfully and completely selfish, obsessive and wicked a character as one is likely to encounter. "Mother-in-law-from-Hell" is almost too mild an adjective. Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction," and Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets" could qualify to become trainees as mental health workers, comparing their problems relative to Joanna's personality disorders.
Sonny Corleone would exert more deliberation and examination of possible alternatives, before ordering somebody whacked, than this overbearing mother did in engaging a hit man.
However, overall, this was a relatively "quiet" flick, given the nature of the story and plot. I found this appealing, and there was little yelling, and no raucous knife-wielding climax, common to so many "Lifetime" offerings. This made it a better viewing, and the Kerns' character was all the better for her steady, unfailing, almost low-key way by which she portrayed her evil character's persona.
A worthwhile two hours' entertainment.