Lifetime Will Cut a Bitch
Sunday, August 17, 2008
  No One Would Tell






First Winnie Cooper got knocked up and now Kevin Arnold is terrorizing DJ Tanner? It's the perfect Lifetime movie storm.

We begin on a darkened road near a lake. Up drives Bobby (Fred Savage) in his pickup with Stacy (Candace Cameron) and Vince in tow. Stacy is confused as to why they're at the lake, but Bobby convinces her to talk a walk so they can "talk." It becomes clear they once dated, she ended it but Bobby doesn't want to give her up. They argue, Stacey screams, and Bobby returns to Vince and his pick-up truck sans Stacy. What could possibly have happened?

Flash to five months earlier. Stacy and friends are at a high school wrestling match, where star wrestler Bobby is just taking the mat. Stacy denies liking Bobby or wrestling at all. Immediately dating this movie, her friend responds, "Then why are we here? We're missing Ricki Lake!" That same friend informs Stacy that Bobby had a girlfriend but she "moved away" so she's free to go in for the kill. After Bobby wins the match, everyone stands to cheer, her two friends scream "NICE BODY!" at Bobby but then immediately sit down, making it look like Stacy was one who yelled at him. Smooth, ladies.















Back at Stacy's house, she and friend Nicki prepare to go to the local pizzeria to try and stalk Bobby. Stacy considers not going after her mother's asshole boyfriend stands her up, but Nicki and mom convince her to get her and her early 90s outfit out of the damn house.
















Sure enough, Bobby and the wrestlers are there...

Ater an awkward exchange about whether or not girls like getting flowers, Bobby gives Stacy a carnation off his table and asks her out.
















Well, he actually asks her spot him during his workout after wrestling practice on Monday, but you know, details ...

Her stellar spotting skills earn her an invite to the lake with Bobby's friend. Conveniently, Bobby's friend has a thing for Stacy's friend Nicki so it's all one big happy family. Even though Bobby spends a good chunk of time canoodling fireside with the class whore Carla, he eventually pulls Stacy aside, they have a heart to heart about not having father figures and then make out. Aww.

It soon becomes clear that homeboy had some issues, however, when he gets pissed off when Stacy's friends join them during study hall the following week. "You said we'd be alone," he hisses, before pushing her up against some book shelves. Charming.
















Later, he grills Stacy about a photograph of a male friend she has in her locker.















The good times keep coming. At the lake that weekend, Stacy's friends tease her about a poem Bobby had written her. Even though Stacy refuses to read the poem to the girls, Bobby snatches it away and storms off. Stacy tries to catch up to him, but he pushes her down on the rocks. Nice. How does he make it all better? Saying "I love you" of course! It works and they're making out in no time.

They head to Stacy's house, but not before stopping by Bobby's for some clothes. He won't let her come inside, however, and can be heard berating his mother when she asks him a favor. At Stacy's house, he basically tells her not to hang out with her friends when he's not there. "I want you all to myself." Healthy!

Being possessive apparently = getting laid. While shopping for clothes with Nicki the next day, Stacy spills the beans that she gave Bobby her v-card. She has bruises on her back that she blames on the vigorous "activity" with Bobby, but being slammed into bookshelves and rocks probably didn't help either.















At practice the next day, Bobby's teammates tell him how "fine" his girlfriend is looking in a short skirt that day.














Bobby finds her, screams at her for looking like a slut and demands that she put on sweatpants. She does, but he slams her against a wall when she tries to catch up with him later and apologize. "Great, you happy now?" he asks as she lies crumpled on the floor. The wrestling coach sees this, but does nothing after Stacy says everything is fine. "From now on, you save that spirit for the team," coach tells Bobby. Atta boy!

Mom is concerned that Stacy is spending too much time with Bobby, but she's having none of that. The next day, when Stacy opts out of setting up for the homecoming dance because "Bobby thinks it's stupid" her friends gossip about her and Bobby's own cousin tells everyone that his ex-girlfriend transferred to get away from him.

Nicki finds Stacy outside to tell her about the ex, but Stacy brushes it off and tells her that Bobby makes her feel special.

On her way home, Stacy sees Bobby's truck and goes over to say hi but finds his mother inside. Stacy says hello, which enrages Bobby when he returns. He hits her, almost runs her over and drives off.
















Once at home he pumps iron like a Real Man.

At home, Stacy screams at her mom for putting up with her boyfriend's shitty behavior. Pot, meet kettle.

After mom leaves, Stacy showers and finds Bobby in her bedroom when she comes out of the bathroom.
















Ree!Ree!Ree! He tells her his dad was an alcoholic and that his mom has been hitting the bottle lately too, so please feel sorry for him? Naturally, she does.

At their 50s-themed school dance, everything's going swell until Bobby sees Stacy talking to some guy. He rips her out of the dance and toward his truck.















Nicki and bf tries to stop them, but Stacy bitches her out for being all up in her business. "You don't know what he's been through!"

After Bobby drops her off, Stacy can hear her mom fighting with her boyfriend through the door, so she decides to go to Nicki's instead. Nicki convinces her that Bobby is a piece of shit, and we see a camera angle that suggests Bobby is watching them thru the window. Later, Stacy's mom calls to say that she broke up with her boyfriend. Will Stacy do the same?

Nicki says Stacy needs to get her mind off things so they go to a bowling party. But when Stacy talks too much about Bobby, her supportive friend tells her to get lost.


















Carla - that whore from the beach - is on a pay phone with Bobby asking is she can come over. He asks her to put Stacy on the phone instead. Apparently not thinking it weird that Carla was on the phone with Bobby, Stacy accepts the call and agrees to let Bobby pick her up from the bowling alley. Carla pops up as Stacy is getting into the truck with Bobby and Vince and asks if she can follow them and hang out too.

Back at Bobby's, Vince and Carla are looking bored on the couch while Bobby and Stacy fight in the bedroom. Stacy storms out into the backyard and Bobby orders Vince to go calm her down. Bobby tells Carla that if anyone asks, it was just the two of them there tonite. Ok? Carla agrees and Bobby kisses her. Be still my beating heart.

Carla peaces out and Bobby tells Stacy he'll drive her home, but he heads to the lake instead ...

The next morning, Stacy's mom calls Nicki and asks her where Stacy is. She says Bobby called her, said they'd argued and then she stormed out. Nicki has no idea, so she, Bobby and mom drive around looking for Stacy. No dice. Stacy's mom goes to Bobby's house later to pump him for info, but he's got nothing ... until Mom spots Stacy's purse under his bed. Whoops. She threatens him and leaves the house.

At school, Stacy's friends are fanned out in an oddly staged arrangement on the bleachers talking about their probably dead friend and slamming Bobby.
















Carla stands up for him, natch. That's what whores do.
















Vince is apparently having some issues with the whole thing, though, and calls 911 to tell the cops to "look out by the lake." They come up empty handed, but trace the call back to Vince and grill him at the station.

The pressure gets to Vince, he turns Bobby in and we flashback to that night ... Bobby takes Stacy away from the car, they argue, he stabs her. Bobby returns to the truck with blood on his hands, grabs tape, rope and plastic from the car (he just had that on hand?), ties her up, weights her down and dumps the body, according to Vince.

The story pans out and the cops find Stacy's body. At the trial, Sally Jesse Raphael is the judge!















There's a montage of teary friends testifying about how Bobby is a piece of shit and he gets life without parole. Sally Jesse gives an impassioned speech about domestic violence and having shitty friends who watch but do nothing as a somber looking Kevin Arnold is taken away.

Not exactly like the love between DJ Tanner and Steve ...




- Callie Cain

 
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