Are the events, for the most part, `Positively True' as featured in this made-for-cable movie? And, again for the most part, is the dialog uttered by the various real-life (some added, some name-changed to protect the truly innocent) characters featured here also `Positively True?'
Sincerely, it doesn't matter if the facts are played straight and true in this pseudo-docu-account.
The supposedly 'true-life' plot concerns the eventual indictment of Wanda Halloway, a devoted and `crazy' suburban-Texas woman who will go as far as paying a hit man to murder her cheerleading daughter's major competition rival, Amber Heath.
Does this 'plot' sound familiar; well it should, it may have started a wave of satirical black comedy/teen film spoofs such as `Drop Dead Gorgeous' and `Bring It On,' both starring Kirsten Dunst.
The film itself serves on numerous levels: It is part textbook example (to be studied in schools, especially those colleges with the best Communications/Media departments), part comedy, part drama (especially towards the end of this film), part social-and-political statement, part reflexive parody (One character suggests actress Holly Hunter play the murder suspect, Wanda, which, in reality, Hunter does play here!) and part lynch-mob Greek Tragedy.
Call this movie what you'd like, it delivers, and it was worth every bit of Cable company money I paid to see it even almost ten years after this film was first released on a cable channel.
The ultimate hilarious cameo would have been if soap Queen, Susan Lucci, actually showed up for a probable 'Wanda' in a screen test. Incidentally, Hunter won an Emmy for her multi-talented/multi-faceted title role.
Please see this film.
Sincerely, it doesn't matter if the facts are played straight and true in this pseudo-docu-account.
The supposedly 'true-life' plot concerns the eventual indictment of Wanda Halloway, a devoted and `crazy' suburban-Texas woman who will go as far as paying a hit man to murder her cheerleading daughter's major competition rival, Amber Heath.
Does this 'plot' sound familiar; well it should, it may have started a wave of satirical black comedy/teen film spoofs such as `Drop Dead Gorgeous' and `Bring It On,' both starring Kirsten Dunst.
The film itself serves on numerous levels: It is part textbook example (to be studied in schools, especially those colleges with the best Communications/Media departments), part comedy, part drama (especially towards the end of this film), part social-and-political statement, part reflexive parody (One character suggests actress Holly Hunter play the murder suspect, Wanda, which, in reality, Hunter does play here!) and part lynch-mob Greek Tragedy.
Call this movie what you'd like, it delivers, and it was worth every bit of Cable company money I paid to see it even almost ten years after this film was first released on a cable channel.
The ultimate hilarious cameo would have been if soap Queen, Susan Lucci, actually showed up for a probable 'Wanda' in a screen test. Incidentally, Hunter won an Emmy for her multi-talented/multi-faceted title role.
Please see this film.