This TV movie really shows how drugs will effect the lives of all who take it and the family members who lose someone to drugs. "Desperate Lives" has a great cast.
Scott Cameron,played by Doug McKeon(On Golden Pond), is a kid who hangs around with kids who do drugs. Sandy Cameron, Scott's sister, Sandy,
played by the beautiful Helen Hunt(Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Mr. Saturday Night, and Mad About You)is dating a boy named Steve, played by Grant Kramer(Hardbodies and The Young And The Restless), who is into drugs. Some of the high school kids have drug problems, nobody want to admit it, but a new councilor, Eileen Phillips, played superbly by Diana Scarwid(Mommy Dearest, Silkwood, and Extremities), can see that there is a problem with the kids with drugs.
Scott's and and Sandy's mother and father, played by Diane Ladd(The Ghosts Of Mississippi) and Tom Atkins(Creepshow, Halloween III, and Lethal Weapon), think that they have the perfect family, they think that their kids can't get into drugs but later on, they realized they wrong.
Steve gets Sandy to try a synthetic version of Angel Dust and she ends up going a little psychotic and injures herself bad. Things gets worse when a girl at the school named Julie Jordan, played by Michele Greene, dies cause of drugs. Scott goes for a ride with a friend named Susan,played by Tricia Cast(The Young And The Restless), they smoke a joint full of the Angel Dust and get into a wreck, and Susan dies. Scott is taken to the hospital, the doctor says he might recover or not. Scott later on remembers everything and goes spastic. Mr and Mrs Cameron realized how wrong they were about their kids not being effected by drugs.
The school still doesn't see the drug problems they have at the school, Eileen Phillips, at a pep assembly, at the high school, makes the school wake up and see what is happening to the kids cause of drugs.
This movie is super,the supporting cast is great.
Clayton Rohner(Just One Of The Guys, Modern Girls, and G vs E)plays Monte.
Mykelti Williamson(Streets Of Fire, Midnight Caller, and Con Air)as Jack.
Art Hindle(Porky's 1 and 2, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and The Octagon)plays Eileen's boyfriend, Stan.
I give this movie 2 thumbs up and a 10/10 stars.
Scott Cameron,played by Doug McKeon(On Golden Pond), is a kid who hangs around with kids who do drugs. Sandy Cameron, Scott's sister, Sandy,
played by the beautiful Helen Hunt(Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Mr. Saturday Night, and Mad About You)is dating a boy named Steve, played by Grant Kramer(Hardbodies and The Young And The Restless), who is into drugs. Some of the high school kids have drug problems, nobody want to admit it, but a new councilor, Eileen Phillips, played superbly by Diana Scarwid(Mommy Dearest, Silkwood, and Extremities), can see that there is a problem with the kids with drugs.
Scott's and and Sandy's mother and father, played by Diane Ladd(The Ghosts Of Mississippi) and Tom Atkins(Creepshow, Halloween III, and Lethal Weapon), think that they have the perfect family, they think that their kids can't get into drugs but later on, they realized they wrong.
Steve gets Sandy to try a synthetic version of Angel Dust and she ends up going a little psychotic and injures herself bad. Things gets worse when a girl at the school named Julie Jordan, played by Michele Greene, dies cause of drugs. Scott goes for a ride with a friend named Susan,played by Tricia Cast(The Young And The Restless), they smoke a joint full of the Angel Dust and get into a wreck, and Susan dies. Scott is taken to the hospital, the doctor says he might recover or not. Scott later on remembers everything and goes spastic. Mr and Mrs Cameron realized how wrong they were about their kids not being effected by drugs.
The school still doesn't see the drug problems they have at the school, Eileen Phillips, at a pep assembly, at the high school, makes the school wake up and see what is happening to the kids cause of drugs.
This movie is super,the supporting cast is great.
Clayton Rohner(Just One Of The Guys, Modern Girls, and G vs E)plays Monte.
Mykelti Williamson(Streets Of Fire, Midnight Caller, and Con Air)as Jack.
Art Hindle(Porky's 1 and 2, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and The Octagon)plays Eileen's boyfriend, Stan.
I give this movie 2 thumbs up and a 10/10 stars.