They Shoot Divas, Don't They?

TV Movie
20022002
2h

A rock diva (Jennifer Beals) with a lengthy and often turbulent career hires a new assistant (Keri Lynn Pratt) whose sweet, helpful demeanor masks ulterior motives.A rock diva (Jennifer Beals) with a lengthy and often turbulent career hires a new assistant (Keri Lynn Pratt) whose sweet, helpful demeanor masks ulterior motives.A rock diva (Jennifer Beals) with a lengthy and often turbulent career hires a new assistant (Keri Lynn Pratt) whose sweet, helpful demeanor masks ulterior motives.

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Sloan McBride is a rock star from the 80s who is trying to keep her head above water as her career slowly heads down the tubes. Jenny is a younger girl who worms her way into Sloan's life, seemingly the innocent assistant--but turning into her worst nightmare. Jenny is secretly out for revenge on Sloan for ruining her mother's career as a singer and causing her to commit suicide. Jenny will stop at nothing to make a fool out of Sloan and is even willing to kill for the change to get closer to her. Will Jenny get the revenge she so desires, or is her revenge founded on delusion? —Virginia Castagno <musicaltheaterbabe@hotmail.com>

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Jennifer Beals actually sang the songs in this film and her fake video actually appeared on MTV.

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References All About Eve (1950)

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Slow Burn
Written by Bruce Roberts
Performed by Jennifer Beals (uncredited)

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Now called "They Shoot Divas, Don't They?"

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.

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