Rob Lowe Cast As Prosecutor In Movie About Casey Anthony Trial

COMMENTS (4)

• Lowe will do a great job and this one will have the same distressingly low narrative and production quality control as all their other movies. Dialog that never rises above subtext, act endings right out of a daytime soap, two-dimensional motivations, no rough edges or contradiction allowed in any of the characterizations, a total absence of the juice of life. Do the executives there not know that “Lifetime Movie” is a byword for the unholy marriage of melodramatic and bland?

  Comment by kblume — Thursday May 3, 2012 @ 9:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Kblume, have you even read it? Alison Cross wrote a great script and the response of people that have read it so far is very positive. It’s a really interesting take on the story from Jeff Ashton’s perspective. Say what you will but Lifetime gives a lot of pleasure watching with these true stories! And no, I don’t work at Lifetime.

  Comment by have you read it? — Friday May 4, 2012 @ 1:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• To “have your read it”: No, I haven’t read it, so I should probably have kept silent. And I know what a good writer Alison Cross is. But I fear that careful-not-to-offend music choices, on top of painstakingly non-specific set dec, on top of tireless efforts to erase any hint that the characters might be something other than solidly typically upper middle class no matter what their real circumstances, could leech the life out of the movie. With a little boldness, a little love of the medium and a little less underestimating of the audience there’s no reason Lifetime’s movies couldn’t double the size of their audience.

  Comment by kblume — Friday May 4, 2012 @ 4:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• Will it take the masses calling their Television providers to cancel their service to get the point across that the public will not stand for anyone making money off this child’s death? Yes, many bought Ashtons book. I did not, and many others did not, because it is BLOOD MONEY. Now I see that the pint he got wasn’t enough, so there will be a Lifetime movie.

  I have canceled my TV service. I watch what I want online without commercials. Your advertisers cannot reach me, thanks to adware block.

  Every actor who signs up for this, know this, I will send all of your movies and magazines to Davy Jones Locker. I will stand with my back to you in public and spit at the mention of your name. The public will make you wish you’d been Blackballed.

  Comment by Pamela — Tuesday May 22, 2012 @ 11:12am PDT  Reply to this post