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A genre of Made for TV Movies, also known as "Women in Jeopardy," that feature similar plots and thematic elements — mainly aggrieved women and their struggles to find empowerment of one sort or another. The Trope Namer is Lifetime, a cable TV channel in the United States with programming geared toward female audiences (or, at least, female audiences who conform to Lifetime's conception of its target demographic), which is well known for giving rise to the Sub-Genre. Original movies are such a bedrock for the Lifetime brand that it has a spinoff network devoted entirely to them (LMN) and a series of movies literally using "Ripped From The Headlines" as their collective title. Despite being the Trope Namer and Trope Codifier, Lifetime didn't invent the genre. Starting in The '80s, the major US networks added stories in this fashion to their Made-for-TV Movie lineups, and saw them get phenomenal ratings. Hollywood studios even got into the act with films like Not Without My Daughter and Sleeping with the Enemy. Lifetime itself got into the business with the 1990 movie Memories of Murder, starring Nancy Allen as a victim of Easy Amnesia who gets stalked by a deranged man. Its success pushed them to make more movies. Meanwhile, The '90s also saw NBC revamp their Monday Night at the Movies series to appeal more to young women. The result was a whole slew of ripe Melodrama movies loaded with familiar TV faces, including the immortal Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, starring Tori Spelling. As the other networks began to move away from TV movies, Lifetime became the home of the subgenre, adopting the other networks' movies and the theatrical films and airing them frequently, to the point that "Lifetime movie" is now a generic description (Indeed, only two of the movies in the page image above were actually produced for Lifetime). |
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More than a few episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fall into this, not helped by Olivia being progressively flanderized into a Straw Feminist. One episode deconstructs this when Stabler suddenly finds himself being treated as if he was "the evil man" in this sort of drama, despite him (for once) genuinely doing everything he could to help the female victim (as in, really trying to help instead of simply wanting REVEEEENGE). Another didn't so much deconstruct it as show how absurd making the massive leaps in logic these movies do can be in real life. A woman claims her ex-husband is stalking her and burned her, and after a confrontation with the cops he gets killed. Turns out she burned herself and accused him of it because she was resentful of him leaving her. Olivia fought for her the whole way, and was rewarded with the woman looking right in her eyes and saying "I sure showed him!" as she lay dying after revealing her scheme. In short, Olivia's own prejudices helped a woman kill her husband by proxy. Also sort-of lampshaded in a case where a woman sets a Lifetime movie-worthy Wounded Gazelle Gambit by having sex with her divorce attorney and then falsely accusing her much-hated sports star ex-husband of raping her, a bait that Olivia and everyone else (save for Elliot) completely swallow. Then this horribly backfires when the husband snaps and fatally immolates his lying ex-wife, but she still won't tell the truth of the false rape accusation even as Olivia asks her on her death bed. Naturally, Olivia is appalled when the lawyer explains what truly happened. |
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Cyberbu//y (2011) is one of these, even though it aired on ABC Family. Cyberbully star Emily Osment appeared in an actual LMOTW in 2014, A Daughter's Nightmare. |
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - Rebecca De Mornay as a pregnant widow who loses her child (and everything else) and blames a happily married pregnant woman called Claire for ruining her life (as opposed to her late husband being an obstetrician who molested multiple patients of his, who took what was once known as the honourable way out.), and plots take revenge on her by becoming Claire's new nanny/Babysitter from Hell. Another theatrical film that Lifetime frequently gives the Recycled Premise treatment. | |
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Parodied in The Naked Gun 33 1/3, in which all the films nominated for an Academy Award have a synopsis starting with "One woman's struggle to..." | |
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A skit on the claymation show Starveillance parodies how Lifetime movies are usually the end of the line for actresses, particularly TV actresses, with sinking careers. The skit features Mischa Barton taking a nap in a cafe shortly after her character was killed off on The O.C.. In her dream, she meets Michelle Rodriguez, Star Jones, and Shannen Doherty whose entry is accompanied by an ominous flash of lightning. They tell her that, since she left the show that made her famous, her career, much like theirs, is doomed to spiral downward, with her only career openings all being on the Lifetime channel. They point to Shelley Long, whose career was never the same after Cheers ended and is still preparing for an audition for Shakespeare In Love even though that movie came out years ago. The dream ends with the other actresses mobbing Mischa like zombies, chanting "You're one of us now, Mischa!" She is finally awakened from her nightmare by her agent, who is calling her with a movie role. She is initially overjoyed to hear his voice, but after she learns that the role she's been offered is that of a young mother with cancer, she asks what channel the movie is airing on. Cue Big "NO!". | |
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An episode of The Simpsons had Marge watching "WifeTime: Television for Housewives", the movie being about a widow whose husband was heavily in debt and didn't have any life insurance (despite the fact that debt obligations aren't inherited and the worst that could be done is property repossession). The widow becomes insane, homeless, broke, and ugly; she then ends up going to Harvard Medical School...as a cadaver. In another episode, Dr. Hibbert gives Marge a DVD of a Lifetime movie called The Woman Who Couldn't Leave Her House to help her cope with the agoraphobia she developed after being robbed at gunpoint. Then there was the time the babysitter thought Homer was trying to grab her butt (he was actually trying to pull off a piece of candy that was stuck to the seat of her pants—thus explaining the incriminating drool). She denounced him for sexual harassment. Next thing you know, Fox is running the original movie Homer S: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber, starring Dennis Franz as Homer. In "Bart The Murderer", Bart is accused of apparently killing Skinner and soon there's a TV movie titled Blood On The Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story starring Neil Patrick Harris. |
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Mentioned in an episode of Parks and Recreation: | |
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From the Beavis And Butthead episode "Blackout": "Melissa Gilbert stars in... Asbestos In Obstetrics!" | |
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For Better or for Worse has Michael's novel, Stone Season. The plot concerns a woman stuck in a loveless marriage with an abusive husband which she makes no effort whatsoever to escape until the 'empowering' climax: he goes out into a storm to hit the bar and doesn't return. She goes searching for him, finds him seriously injured and weakened, and he berates her to help him. She says "No", and leaves him to die. She's a Pinball Protagonist who only exists to suffer tragically until 'fate' disposes of her husband for her, and is praised as 'strong' and 'amazing' for this. (The excerpts given on Michael's Character Blog also depict 1960s Canada as being more or less like the 1860s in the rest of the Western world.) | |
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Sally Field's Not Without My Daughter, taken from the book by Betty Mahmoody. Neither the Iranians nor Roger Ebert were impressed. Sally Field does it again in Eye for an Eye, which deals with her struggles to cope with the brutal rape and murder of her daughter after the perpetrator gets Off on a Technicality. Unlike Enough, Sally's character plays it smarter by baiting the evil creep and getting him to break into her house so she can kill him and more reasonably claim self-defense. |
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The 1993 movie Men Don't Tell is a Gender Flip. | |
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Fear. Young Reese Witherspoon falls for young bad boy Mark Wahlberg, who turns out to be a possessive creep. She breaks up with him, but he's Not Good with Rejection and puts her and her family in danger. This film's plot has become a frequent Recycled Premise for Lifetime in recent years. | |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja after the ghost wizard takes over Dark Smoke Puncher he suggests that his mother might get a Lifetime movie out of their fight, entitled A Woman's Choice. A Mother's Nightmare. The alt-text goes on to say: Immediately subverted on the next page, when Mitzi unhesitatingly orders Gordito to shoot her son fatally. |
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The 1993 remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman fits this formula. Men are abusive, sex-obsessed monsters? Check. Women are weak, spineless victims? Check. | |
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Similarly parodied by Something Awful here. | |
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Sally Field does it again in Eye for an Eye, which deals with her struggles to cope with the brutal rape and murder of her daughter after the perpetrator gets Off on a Technicality. Unlike Enough, Sally's character plays it smarter by baiting the evil creep and getting him to break into her house so she can kill him and more reasonably claim self-defense. | |
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The 1983 Australian flick Hostage, based on the true story of Christine Maresch (nee Lewis), has the overall feel of one, focusing on a young woman in dire straits and dealing with a controlling and abusive boyfriend (and later husband) whom she eventually attempts to fight back against. | |
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Sent up in American Dad!: That particular episode ("A.T. the Abusive Terrestrial") is itself a parody of these... and ET. Roger feels neglected by Steve, so he makes friends with a new boy (an Expy of Elliot). The boy eventually turns abusive, which Roger tries to hide from Steve. When he does find out, Steve helps Roger figure out a way to escape safely by pretending he has to return to his homeworld. However, the boy catches on, so Roger settles for kicking him in the crotch, pushing over his bike then walking off. In another episode, Roger watches A Cyst For Amelia, starring Delta Burke. |
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Schitt's Creek has an episode where White-Dwarf Starlet Moira Rose is delighted that a Lifetime movie-of-the-week she did with Joyce Dewitt called Not Without My Cousin about two astrophysicist cousins who get kidnapped in Lebanon is being re-aired. Moira complains that Dewitt insisted on wearing pigtails and bemoans that her love scene got the aerial shot, but she declares the film had its moments. | |
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The 2014 thriller, No Good Deed, ultimately falls into this category. The film is about a wife and mother of two named Terri, who is married to an insensitive jerk of a husband named Jeffery. It's later revealed that the husband was cheating on her. She then meets and gets tormented by an escaped convict, looking to kill her cheating husband. | |
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Simultaneously played straight and subverted in a Something*Positive arc, in which Kharisma's arrest for murder is portrayed as an inspiring Lifetime Movie... but even the actress portraying her knows it's a load of bull. | |
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A variation of this can be found in V for Vendetta in the story arc of Rosemary Almond, a gentle and demure housewife whose husband, Derek, just can't wait to get home every evening so he can get to beat her up and get drunk as a way to vent off his everyday frustrations. Derek is then killed by V himself, making her a widow. She is then hit on by one of her husband's co-workers whose sole purpose is to sully her husband's memory by fucking his wife. He is also killed by V later on. She is then expelled from society and is forced to become a showgirl to support herself. Eventually she snaps and assassinates England's dictator. | |
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In Emmerdale we have an glaring example centering around Chas and Carl. Firstly Chas Dingle discovers her Jerkass boyfriend, Carl King, has been cheating with one of her friends. It reaches "lifetime" levels when she begins secretly plotting an elaborate revenge with her cousin Charity in order to punish them. This includes weeks of getting engaged, organising a wedding and then finally planning to divorce him right after for every penny he's got. This deception goes on until the day of the wedding where Chas doesn't go through with it and reveals she knew he was a dirty cheat. The fact that both Carl's and herself's entire friends and families are dragged through this charade for the sake of pure spite is very quickly forgotten if even really touched upon. She just settles for the paltry 30 grand she siphoned off from his money. Secondly much later down the line Chas herself begins an affair with Cameron Murray. Her pregnant niece's fiancee. Yep, she's a massive Hypocrite. But she's still portrayed as a Sympathetic Adulterer. Carl, of all people in the world, finds out and manages to capture an incriminating picture. Over the next few episodes Carl acts unsurprisingly like a smug jerk whilst threatening to expose Chas unless she coughs up the 30 grand she stole. However this might seem justified given Chas was willing to ruin him for the same crime, so naturally his character is Flanderized from a jerkass blackmailing his ex for payback, to a Stalker with a Crush and finally an attempted rapist. Thus Chas and Cameron end up bludgeoning him to death with a brick. And she ends up portrayed as a traumatised woobie on trial for his murder. |
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The Invisible Man (2020) is a Darker and Grittier sci-fi horror bent on this as the core premise is of a beautiful, young, intelligent woman (Elisabeth Moss) being stalked by her abusive, Ax-Crazy ex-boyfriend...who happens to be a Gadgeteer Genius that invented a working Invisibility Cloak adding a whole new layer to the invokedParanoia Fuel. | |
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Enough features a protagonist who, after abuse and cheating from her husband, breaks into her husband's house with the full intention of beating him to death with her bare hands. Her threat, "self-defense isn't murder", rings pretty hollow considering she's instigating the fight in his home and not hers, goes out of her way to remove anything he could use to defend himself, and even plants evidence to prove the version of the story she plans to tell the cops. She gets the upper hand, but then she chickens out. After more struggling he falls out a two-story window. It's also worth noting that the film relies primarily on every cliche one could think of to tell the story (ex- boyfriend and disappeared dad comes around to help, husband will be believed 100% over his wife because of his wealth and high social position, said husband having the power to track anything no matter where his wife hides, husband's cop friend is willing to risk his career and physical force to help get his buddy's family back just to show how bad men with power is, the list goes on...) One could also say that they made the evil husband as the perfect representation of what a truly cliched Lifetime villain looks like. Along with his possessive and emotional behavior, he is also a Straw Misogynist and manipulative con artist with a bit of an inflated ego, and as a "man" cares more about sleeping around with women than paying attention to his family, justifying his outside relationships to his wife because he has given her such a prosperous lifestyle, when he didn't care enough to express sincere gratefulness for her role. Not only that, he's also intimidating and not nice to any person who challenges even his minor requests and demands, whether it's a complete stranger, his wife, or mutual friends. The point being, he's just plain self-centered to the core without seeing anything unjustified his behavior that he knows is wrong. |
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Skewered by The Onion here. They also pointed out the absurdity of the premise by doing a Gender Flip in this article. | |
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Hush (1998) has Gwyneth Paltrow as a pregnant newlywed whose new mother-in-law (Jessica Lange) is an Evil Matriarch who really isn't planning on letting go of her son. Or her impending grandchild. | |
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An episode of 30 Rock featured scenes from a fictional Lifetime movie which told the story of how C.C. became a congresswoman after being shot in the face by a dog. The movie was titled A Dog Took My Face And Gave Me A Better Face To Change The World: The Celeste Cunningham Story and the scene where she's shot had her dramatically gasping "I'm going to get into politics!" as she fell to the ground. | |
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Strong Medicine is this in Medical Drama format. Unsurprisingly, it was produced for Lifetime. | |
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Prom Night (2008): A high school senior (Brittany Snow) is stalked by an Ax-Crazy Ephebophile Yandere Evil Teacher who developed a psychotic obsession with her and escapes from the mental ward three days before her prom. Unlike most examples however, there are only one or two moments where she fights back while spends the majority of the film being a Damsel in Distress. | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Man, Flash Thompson was kidnapped by mercenaries who mistook him for Spider-Man. After managing to escape, Flash and his family use the resulting media frenzy to their advantage. The peak of this is a Lifetime movie based on the experience. From the short snippet we see, it's pretty bad. | |
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1983's Independence Day definitely qualifies; it's set in a small town in New Mexico - a waitress who wants to leave, but is discouraged by a mechanic who did leave but came back. Meanwhile they learn the mechanic's sister is regularly beaten by her husband. The only thing this has common with the better-known film of the same name is that both films feature big explosions at the climax... | |
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When the Bough Breaks was criticized for being basically a Lifetime movie that made it to the big screen. The Perfect Guy got similar criticism. | |
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Saturday Night Live did a Real Trailer, Fake Movie for "Lifetime's" Hello Stepson, Now Let's Go to Bed: I Went to Bed with My Stepson: The Laura Bengal Covington Story. They did another one, "To Love, Honor, and Stalk", about a woman whose husband (played by guest host John McCain) kept "invading her personal space" (i.e. standing too close to her). After the trailer, the "real life" victim explained that she and her husband discovered he had a hearing disability, and was subsequently lauded for standing up to his abuse of being so close to her all the time. A sketch about a Lifetime channel game show, "What's Wrong With Tanya?" where the contestants were all suburban mothers from Lifetime movies. They had to guess what specifically was troubling different teenagers named "Tanya" that were brought out. Taken even further where Bill Hader plays both the show host and the typical abusive man who tells the winning housewife at the end "Oh you're not going anywhere. You'll never leave me." |
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Saved! features clips from a fictional Lifetime movie, complete with Adam Westing from Valerie Bertinelli. It leads to a "Eureka!" Moment when the main character realizes that she's pregnant as a result of something she sees in the movie. | |
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The horror/comedy independent film Teeth is basically a LMOTW with the twist that our innocent female lead has a carnivorous vagina. | |
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Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life is about a teenage boy who becomes addicted to internet pornography after looking at some pictures of women in bikinis. It's up to his mother to save him. | |
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Human Trafficking counts, but unlike most Lifetime films it was well received. The fact that it's inspired by actual events might have helped though. | |
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That particular episode ("A.T. the Abusive Terrestrial") is itself a parody of these... and ET. Roger feels neglected by Steve, so he makes friends with a new boy (an Expy of Elliot). The boy eventually turns abusive, which Roger tries to hide from Steve. When he does find out, Steve helps Roger figure out a way to escape safely by pretending he has to return to his homeworld. However, the boy catches on, so Roger settles for kicking him in the crotch, pushing over his bike then walking off. | |
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The Burning Bed is a made-for-tv movie that dramatizes the real-life story of a battered wife who sets her abusive husband on fire.note Ironically, it first aired during National Fire Prevention Week. | |
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Some of Andrews' other works, namely My Sweet Audrina and the Dollanganger Series, were themselves adapted as films for Lifetime, with plans to adapt the Casteel Series as well. | |
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Family Guy had Brian and his girlfriend Jillian watching a commercial for a Lifetime movie entitled Men Are Terrible and Will Hurt You Because This Is Lifetime. What little we saw of it consisted of a woman who was raped by her doctor, who then tells her in a very uninterested fashion that she has cancer. An earlier episode showed the family watching a show with two women eating ice cream and making very lame jokes about men. Then it went to commercial announcing that they were watching Lifetime: Television for Idiots. Another episode featured Raped By a Clown, starring Meredith Baxter-Birney (who voiced herself). The episode "The Story of Brenda Q." subverts this. It's NOT a parody. |
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Transmetropolitan. In the future Lifetime movies can be about men, too. Men who struggle with raising headless children, saving nippleless strippers and dodging insane police snipers to save the world from crime by telling everyone that it is wrong. | |
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Waiting to Exhale is a bitter piece-of-life movie where all men who ever walk on screen are either immature, total assholes or perverts who can't keep it in their pants, leaving all the main Four-Girl Ensemble embittered, lonely or sad and realizing that having Sisters Before Misters is the best way of life for women if they don't want men to walk all over them. | |
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Hot in Cleveland has Victoria Chase, a largely washed-up soap actress who also starred in number of Lifetime Original Movies, all of which have overly exaggerated titles, such as "Lady Storm Chaser", "Concrete Pillow", "The Princess and the Plumber" and "Soccer Mom Ninja." | |
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