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词条 Desperate Lives
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  1. Plot summary

  2. Cast

  3. Production Notes

  4. Home media

  5. External links

{{Infobox television
| show_name = Desperate Lives
| image = Desperate_LivesDVD.jpg
| image_size =
| image_alt =
| caption = DVD cover
| genre = Drama
| writer = Lew Hunter
| director = Robert Michael Lewis
| starring = Tom Atkins
Diane Ladd
Doug McKeon
Helen Hunt
Diana Scarwid
| music = Bruce Broughton
| country = United States
| language = English
| executive_producer = Arthur Fellows
Terry Keegan
| producer = Lew Hunter
| editor = Les Green
| location = William S. Hart High School in Newhall, Santa Clarita, California
| cinematography = Joseph Biroc
| runtime = 96 minutes
| company = Fellows-Keegan Company
Lorimar Television
| distributor = CBS
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
| budget =
| network = CBS
| picture_format = Color (Metrocolor)
| audio_format = Mono
| first_aired = March 3, 1982
| website =
}}

Desperate Lives is a 1982 American made-for-television drama film about drug use in a high school. The film has a very strong anti-drug message.

Plot summary

The Cameron family seems, on the surface, to be the perfect family, but things are not as they seem. Their two teenage children, Scott and Sandy, fall in with the wrong crowds at their high school and eventually become involved with drug experimentation. Sandy, after ingesting angel dust made by her boyfriend in the school's chemistry lab, jumps through a glass window of the school (purposely cutting her arms with the cut glass in the process) and is subsequently paralyzed from the fall.

A caring idealistic guidance counselor, Eileen Phillips, sees the problem that is going on in the school and, after other tragic incidents involving two other students (one of which involves Scott and his girlfriend smoking drugs and crashing their car off a cliff) and when no one else on the staff is willing to do anything about it, takes the steps to deal with and confront the problem. The aftermath of this tragedy makes Scott and Sandy's parents realize that even their "perfect" kids can be affected by drugs, especially after Scott has a violent reaction and goes into the hospital.

At a school assembly, Eileen Phillips storms in and confronts the students about the increasing drug use, sending a message to the crowd about the effects of what the drug problem is doing to the kids and the tragedies that resulted because of it.

Cast

  • Diana Scarwid as Eileen Phillips
  • Doug McKeon as Scott Cameron
  • Helen Hunt as Sandy Cameron
  • William Windom as Dr. Jarvis
  • Art Hindle as Stan
  • Tom Atkins as John Cameron
  • Norman Alden as Coach
  • Tricia Cast as Susan Garber
  • Sam Bottoms as Ken Baynes
  • Diane Ladd as Carol Cameron
  • Grant Cramer as Steve
  • Michele Greene as Julie Jordan
  • Terry Alexander as Robert Walsh
  • Joyce Brothers as Mrs. Watson (as Dr. Joyce Brothers)
  • Aggie Terry as Cindy
  • Katherine Kelly Lang as Mary
  • Susan McClung as Sarah
  • Clayton Rohner as Monte
  • Jennifer Parsons as Olivia (as Jenny Parsons)
  • Mykelti Williamson as Jack (as Mykel T. Williamson)
  • Jane Milmore as Jane
  • Curt Ayers as Jesse
  • Michele Laurita as Diana
  • Glenn-Michael Jones as Al
  • Joey Green as Howard
  • Michael Cummings as Brad Davis
  • Viola Kates Stimpson as Grandmother

Production Notes

  • The theme song to "Desperate Lives" was written and sung by Rick Springfield.
  • Some of the movie was filmed at William S. Hart High School in Newhall, Santa Clarita, California.

Home media

Desperate Lives was released on DVD on April 21, 2010.

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0083822|title=Desperate Lives}}
  • [https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800056615/info Yahoo! profile]

9 : 1982 television films|1980s teen drama films|American films|American teen drama films|American high school films|Films about drugs|English-language films|CBS network films|Films scored by Bruce Broughton

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