Sorry, this movie sucks

Admirable film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

This is a made for TV film rated TV-14. The film description pretty much says it all. Mark (Caleb Ruminer) gets seduced by a Mrs. Robinson type, Carissa Kensington (Dina Meyer) and the film, as you might guess from the title, moves into a mild "Fatal Attraction." The plot was unconvincing. The acting was so-so. I didn't find the watered down formula film overly entertaining.

An 18 year old boy about to leave for college begins an affair with an older woman. His protective mother is worried. However she turns out to be obsessive. A cougar fatal attraction.The cast is good. Dina Meyer as the crazy lady looks great still. Look at her other co stars from Starship Troopers - they have all aged so much more. The guy looks naive enough to be taken in by her wily charms. The story isn't terribly original but there is an almost laugh out loud dialog which keeps this entertaining and not run of the mill. Worth one watch.

****SPOILERS*** It all started out so innocently at the local hardware store when young inexperienced, in making it with the opposite sex,as well as a bit naive 18 year old Mark Richards,Caled Ruminer, helped 40 year old sex-pot Carissa Kensington, Dina Meyer, pick out a shower cap and before he knew it Mark was taking a shower together with her. That was only the beginning of the "Nightmare" that he was to go through with Carissa who soon got him under her control and made poor Mark her personal boy-toy to play with as she liked. It's Mark's mom Tanya,Amanda Detmer, who saw through Carlisa's act and tried to save her son Mark from a fate worse then death itself but only ended up being held hostage by her in her overheated-up to 135 degrees-steam room together with her son Mark being steamed, like a lobster, alive!Totally ridicules from start to finish but still very entertaining Lifetime movie with the helpless and in love Mark letting both his guard as will as pants and shorts down as the sexy Carissa slowly drains the very life out of him. It's Marks mom Tanya who tries to save him but she's no match for Carissa whom we soon finds out murdered her husband,and made it look like an accident, and ended up with all his money as well as mansion on the hill. It's Tanya's, who's also a widow, fishy boyfriend Randy, Brian Smith, known as the fish-man who works cleaning things, life shark droppings, up at the local aquarium who finally gets the message in what Carissa is up to. But by them it's almost too late for all Mark Tayna and Mark's goofy friend Walter,Sam Lerner, involved.***SPOILERS**** As smart as Mark, who has a full scholarship to Ivy League University Princeton, is he's not quite smart enough to see through Carissa's plans for him in making him her sex slave and thus ruining his life as well as his mom's. But in the end Carissa's unq1uinching lust ends up doing her in by, after getting burned in a bed of hot coals, taking a misstep and ending up at the bottom of her Olympic size swimming pool in order to cool herself off but drowning instead!

Dina Meyer is definitely the new Mrs. Robinson of the ages.She strikes up a friendship with a Princeton bound young man and she is as manipulative, cunning and vicious as they come. Too bad that the boy's mother, an over protective mother, literally fights her all the way. The woman has that kind of evil about her that even for a while turns the mother, a widow, from her gentleman friend.Demanding that he ditch his scholarship and go work for a company as a technology whiz, this woman pulls out all the stops to be forever controlling.Naturally, when she can't have her way, she resorts to violence and even has the mother confronted with a terrible choice.