Amor de Obsessão

The legend.

This is the tv-movie to end all tv-movies.

Thank goodness for a father with lots of money who happens to be an influential producer in the make believe world of entertainment. It works well if one happens to be Tori Spelling, an ambitious young woman, who could be better off spending her idle hours around Rodeo Drive shopping and doing lunch with the rich and famous in all those ritzy places nearby.

With this new appearance Ms. Spelling assures herself a niche in the stratosphere of camp. One has to give it to the girl, she gets to wear all those cute outfits while in the throes of love and betrayal. "Mother, May I Sleep in Danger" could be subtitled as "The Tori Show". Let's hope we are spared of another masterpiece starring Ms. Spelling in the near future, but alas, that's probably impossible, because in her ambition for bigger and better things, she probably will keep turning up in vehicles such as this one forever.

Where to begin. Tori is gloriously bad as cutey blonde girl whose boyfriend may be a **bit** weird. Of course her mother spots this and Weird Boyfriend turns into a drooling manic axe murderer. I howled with laughter as the plot (of which there is nothing much to say) turned from predictable over awful to really bad. The highlight is Tori escaping from the Drooling Manic Axe murderer Boyfriend in a canoe -- and it is obvious that she has no clue as how to paddle. Poor girl doesn't get anywhere -- but Mommy saves the day. Grab some popcorn and sit down to watch a movie so dreadful that it ought to be shown as a cult movie.

There are many bad made for TV traumas on LMN and many bad actresses, and believe me I could name a few but Tori Spelling goes to the head of the class with the worst performance ever, not even qualified for a rating. Why is this woman performing? I thought she killed an otherwise decent movie, TRICK, by being in it. She was so annoying and not very pretty to look at. Guess her dad has something to do with it. In this flick she's plain dreadful, over acting and out in space somewhere. Not a clue as to what's going on. Unfortunately it also killed it for her supporting cast, notably Ivan Sergei, a decent actor, having to make believe he was nuts over this person. He must have taken knock out pills to even play those love scenes with her. Also a brief appearance by Lochlyn Munro, whom I also like, doesn't help. Add Lisa Banes in a thankless role as the mother of this miscast and you have a dreadful mishap. Too bad, as the supporting cast ain't half bad.

Jorge Montesi, the director, must have been duped to cast Speilling in the lead. I wonder if the writer, Edmond Stevens, was grimacing as he watched his 1996 script get dumped on by Tori Spelling.

With this movie, the girl-stalked-by-obsessive-boyfriend genre seem to be filled, together with _No One Would Tell (1996) (TV)_ (qv). It would have been interesting to know why Billy Jones acted the way he did, a deeper answer than that he is simply crazy. Tori Spelling does another one of her blonde-in-danger roles.