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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
enlarge	Actors: Kathleen Marie Archer, Jana Arnold, Megan Berwick, Nelly Bly, Beau Bridges Studio: Hbo Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~$14.98~~ Buy New: $7.50 You Save: $7.48 (50%) New (30) Used (6) from $7.50 Avg. Customer Rating: 13 reviews Sales Rank: 64734 Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) Rating: R (Restricted) Number Of Items: 1 Running Time: 99 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 MPN: HBOD90875D ISBN: 0783120192 UPC: 263590875230 EAN: 9780783120195 ASIN: B00005Y6YC Theatrical Release Date: April 10, 1993 Release Date: April 2, 2002 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Wanda & verna both want their daughters to join the high school cheerleading team. Since vernas child seems more likely to win wanda plans to distract the child by murdering verna! based on a true story. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Holly Hunter Swoosie Kurtz Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Michael Ritchie Amazon.com essential video Directed by Michael Ritchie (The Candidate) with an eye toward his terrific 1970s legacy of social and political satires, this 1993 HBO comedy stars Holly Hunter as the real-life Texas woman who solicited a killer to aid her daughter's dream of becoming a high school cheerleader. Hunter is remarkable in the lead, somehow both scary and sympathetic. But it is Ritchie who gets to the heart of the matter in the aftermath of the murder, when there is a mad scramble by the media and Hollywood to package the absurdist atrocity for their own ends. One of the director's more biting studies of the shadow side of ritual Americana, this is not for anyone looking for a bull docudrama. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews... Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom May 24, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful I hadn't seen this in several years and was wondering if it still held up. It definitely DOES! Holly Hunter is frightenly perfect in this role -- is she just over-invested in her daughter's success or is she treading the brittle edge of mental illness? Either way, she's one of the most-believable villainesses ever -- a forerunner to Nicole Kidman's role in "To Die For" (which deserved an Academy Award). An earnest Beau Bridges and looney Swoosie Kurtz round out this excellent cast. Has Holly ever won an award? March 6, 2007 2 out of 2 found this review helpful If not, she should. One of the few actresses today who consistently turn's in top notch performances. I think this story was taken from a real news story. Frightening, hiliarous, black comedy. A true view of humanity at it worst. Hysterical cheerleader Mom, who was never a cheerleader herself and suffered the humiliation as a young girl of never being good enough to be in the click, is fiercely determined to make sure her daughter becomes one of the golden few, no matter the cost. Excellent performances buy the whole cast. Enjoy! YOU'VE UPGRATED THE ACTRESS... NOW, LET'S DOWNGRADE THE MOTHER. July 17, 2006 1 out of 5 found this review helpful MY FEELING ON THIS MOVIE AND THE REAL-LIFE EVENTS IS THAT WANDA HOLLOWAY IS A LIAR AND JUST PLAINE STUPID. SHE IS A COMPLETE MENTAL CASE AND SOCIALBATHILISTIC EMBARASSMENT TO HUMAN KIND. IF SHE WAS THEN BACK IN 1991 SO INNOCENT, THEN WHY HAVE THE GUTS TO GO OVER TO THIS MAN'S HOUSE WANTING TO TALK ABOUT RIDDING EITHER VERNA HEATH OR HER DAUGHTER OR BOTH. HELL, WANDA DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO TALK IN THIS MAN'S HOUSE, INSTEAD, SHE HAS THIS GUY MEET HER IN THE PARKING LOT OF A PLACE CALLED GRANDY'S OR SOMETHING LIIKE THAT. IT IS JUST 100% CLEAR THAT SHE WAS NOT STABLE, BUT KNEW EXCACTLY WHAT SHE WAS DOING WHEN THESE EVENT TOOK PLACE. AND IF SHE WAS SO INNOCENT, THEN MY QUESTION TO HER WOULD BE THIS... WHY EVEN TALK ABOUT IT AT ALL. Everything is bigger in Texas...... April 5, 2006 2 out of 2 found this review helpful And this movie is no exception. Holly Hunter is fantastic, as she is in everything she does (also loved her as Billie Jean King in "When Billie Beat Bobbie" among others). She is so deadpan in Wanda's warped logic, that it draws you in to what made this woman really commit this crime. She actually felt justified! Of course, the movie is hilariously weird and the title alone is a conversation starter. I went to school with these people! January 20, 2006 6 out of 6 found this review helpful It is my understanding that Holly Hunter never met Wanda Holloway before she made this movie. If that was true, then she deserves every award she gets. Her portrayal of Wanda was TOP NOTCH! I went to Channelview High School with Wanda, Terry and Tony Harper. If you watch this movie for no other reason than Miss Hunters performance, you will not be unsatisfied. Of course, Hollywood made everyone else look like a cartoon. As fine an actor as Beau Bridges is, no one could do justice to a character like Terry Harper. This is NOT a documentary, folks!