Lifetime movies

These Lifetime Channel movies are so odd. I really should like them.

I started to watch one about a mother forced to rob banks to pay her teenage son's gambling debts. There was one that was based on a novel that was weirdly popular in the 1970's about a woman who tries to return home to her wealthy parents after her husband dies in the 1950's. She and her husband had been cruelly shunned for years because they were brother and sister. In another, a nanny turns the children against their mother and tries to legally adopt them. There's one about a girl whose new psychopath friend at school tries to murder her regular friend. A disturbed middle aged woman moves in with relatives and tries to recreate the high school prom she didn't attend. I just read the description. I didn't see it.

I watched just the opening credits of one. It was produced by The Asylum, the company that makes the Sharknado movies among others, which seemed fitting.

The characters in these things are bourgeois, all living in huge houses. Lifetime reportedly took a survey. Their viewers live in single family homes so their movies about people living in single family homes. It was refreshing when the "young" people in Boy in the Attic fled in an old Town Car. I'm happy with women as main characters, but not horrible rich women. 

In the ones I watched, the women were also gun-owners.

Perhaps ironically, the movies each cost around $1.25 million. They're making low budget movies about rich people.

I brought this up with a couple of regular movies. There was A Simple Plan, a thriller about three working class men in a small town who live in houses that are too big and too new and Young Adult where a successful author returns to her home town. The simple townsfolk who never thought to leave for the big city live in McMansions. This how Jason Reitman thinks the proletariat lives. He can't figure out what they're complaining about.