Perhaps Mother Gussie was concerned for her safety at one point. Instead of sitting us down to watch a movie where a man wronged a woman or raped her, she had us watch Twisted Desire, starring none other than Melissa Joan Hart. Melissa played a teen so hell-bent on having freedom and big house to herself that she convinced her boyfriend to kill her parents for her and then denied any involvement in the murders. Christine and I had no such “twisted desires,” but I’m sure that it relieved Mother Gussie’s fears to have us watch the film nonetheless. This movie though is still one of my favorite made-for-TV flicks. It’s truly a mystery why Lifetime never replays it. I guess parents aren’t fearing for their lives anymore like they were in the ’90s.
