Here’s how I’m remembering Joan Rivers. She wrote the most awesome TV movie ever: The Girl Most Likely To…
In it, Stockard Channing plays a smart but unpopular college student who is not easy on the eyes. She’s tormented and disrespected by her callous, superficial classmates, and, although we at home surely dig her and want to befriend her, she appears to be resolved to an unlucky fate.
In a performance so memorable that it makes the rest of her career seem that it’s coursing downhill, Stockard plays an ugly ducking who, through a serious car accident and subsequent surgery, becomes a beautiful swan.
Once she transforms into a hot piece of ass, she proceeds to murder everyone who was cruel to her along the way. And she doesn’t just kill them — she gives their murders a lot of serious, creative, sadistic thought. There is no doubt that this was Joan Rivers’ movie, and a freaky peek into her dark side.
You don’t know whether to cheer her or fear her, but you’ll surprise yourself at how a TV movie can generate this much power.
The most beautifully wicked revenge flick ever filmed, co-starring such tiresome old friends as Jim Backus, Joe Flynn, Larry Wilcox and Ed Asner.
The brilliance of this joint knows no bounds. The genius of its irony knows no limits. And more accolades from me.
The fact that this movie constantly stays under the radar is a puzzlement. What? No Broadway musical? No big-budget movie reboot? No pop culture worship? Never on video or DVD? Please explain.
Take time to experience this one. Milennials, you especially. It will change you forever. I’m not kidding. Watch it now and report back.
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