I'm trying to limit my intake of Lifetime movies, if not stop watching them altogether. I haven't been counting, but I've seen over 5 now. Out of all of them, I only found a couple that I enjoyed. Most of them are trash. Ridiculous plotlines and laughable acting, even when the film revolved around a serious topic. I guess for people who don't get out much, they teach "lessons." But as for me, I often feel like they're a waste of my time. However, there were some films that I just couldn't finish watching, no matter how much I tried. Not because they were crappy, but more or less disturbing. It's not very often that a movie makes me mad... Like to the point of my heart racing. Anything not real that makes me feel like that, I don't consider to be entertaining. Tim Matheson gave such a believable performance as the evil, wife-beating husband, Daniel, of Joanna Kerns (Maryanne), that I wanted to jump through the screen and try to fight him, since she was too scared to do it. He beats her relentlessly in front of their 2 kids, even hitting her when she was holding one of them. And that's when I couldn't take it anymore, so I stopped watching. I hate to see kids suffering. I can watch stuff that contains all sorts of violence, and not be bothered, but I have a low tolerance for watching kids get harmed. Some people just allow too much dysfunction in their house. At what point was she going to leave him? If he didn't have a problem terrifying his own children, he had been abusive for years. That didn't start happening out of nowhere. I know movies can ignite all kinds of emotions within us, and that's not something we should run away from, because we're human. Nonetheless, I personally don't like to get stressed out when I watch a film. I plan on never revisiting this again.
