A Lifetime Original movie, a remake of the 1968 film The Lion in Winter, about the prosperous owner of a spate of small businesses trying to determine over the Thanksgiving holiday who among his children will inherit which businesses.
“Headed to #NYC today. Think anyone will notice @Chiefs? #ChiefsKingdom also I was just recognized. She said ‘You look familiar..?’ I said ‘oh yes, I’m a rock star..’ She said, ‘No you were on a show I watched as a kid' it was Beyond Chance!!! @lifetimetv lol!” 2/21/20
Dude that show was amazing, we need it released! Also her automatic response of “I’m a rock star”; this woman’s confidence is everything.
So far Lifetime is winning me over again this year. Two holiday movies worth watching.
The Christmas Pact starring Kyla Pratt & Jared Joseph
Childhood best friends plant a Christmas tree and every year they gather at the tree to read their Christmas wishes. As they get older life pulls them apart in every direction as they try to keep the Christmas pact to always spend the day together. This also has (Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne as parents/Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison) Great/fun/time leap story even though they won me over with Millennium Falcon.
Every Other Holiday starring Schuyler Fisk & David Clayton Rogers
Two children wish for their separated parents to share Christmas as a family. The plan is to make them reconnect at Grandma’s house but Nana despises the father. The conflict is a understatement. Emotional story line about life issues and when faced with them. Not a lighthearted holiday movie but worth watching.
*Other movies on Lifetime if interested.
1. Jingle Belle starring Tatyana Ali
2. Every Day is Christmas staring Toni Braxton
3 Poinsettias for Christmas starring Bethany Joy Lenz
4. A Twist of Christmas starring Vanessa Lachey & Brendon Zub
Okay, so I’m very, very curious to see if there are any other people out there who had an obsession with those awful made for TV/Lifetime movies during the late 90’s/early 2000’s or if I was just a very weird preteen/teenager who used these movies as a form of escapism…ANYWAY, here’s a list of some of the movies I watched on repeat during that time period:
Gracie’s Choice
Lies My Mother Told Me
Mom at Sixteen
Odd Girl Out
Speak
Fifteen and Pregnant
Girl, Positive
She’s Too Young
Please free to add to this list with some of your favorite made for TV movies during that time period so I can get nostalgic and cry/laugh about them!
A Lifetime Original movie sequel to the 1999 vignette movie Go, where all the cast members dip in and out of the same Thanksgiving dinner/Thanksgiving-themed rave/Thanksgiving buffet at a strip club.
A Lifetime Original movie sequel to the 2015 film based on the 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel The Price of Salt, Carol and Therese have a wacky Thanksgiving together with their extended families, including Therese's ex Richard, Harge and Rindy, and Abby and her kooky new girlfriend.
