What nightmare-inducing Made-for-TV movie shouldn't I have watched as a kid?
July 7, 2011 8:52 PM Subscribe
Name that early '80s TV Movie filter: Creepy softball coach lures preteen girl into a spate of child porn posing with guilt, Quaaludes and orange soda in glass bottles. What the heck was it?
So, I remember watching this made for TV movie quite a bit -- as in it played more than once.
It was made in the late '70s/early '80s. A young girl gets "seduced" into posing for child porn by her softball coach, who was played by a b-list character actor that was in something more mainstream with a mustache, maybe balding? Definitely dark haired.
The girl had brown hair and was pretty young and mousy. I want to say she went on to do something broader/bigger.
I remember him talking her into taking off her clothes with the line, "a bra and underwear covers more than a bathing suit, right?"
Later in the movie, she's spiraled out of control when she meets the other slightly older kids in his ring of pornography and washes back quaaludes with orange soda in glass bottles. (I was afraid of orange soda for years.)
Too graphic to be an afterschool special, but too early to be a Lifetime movie.
I could have sworn the title had "Angel" or "Darling" in the name of it, but perhaps I'm misremembering it.
(I must admit my googlefu is failing just because I refuse to include the phrase "child porn" anywhere in a search box.)
So, I remember watching this made for TV movie quite a bit -- as in it played more than once.
It was made in the late '70s/early '80s. A young girl gets "seduced" into posing for child porn by her softball coach, who was played by a b-list character actor that was in something more mainstream with a mustache, maybe balding? Definitely dark haired.
The girl had brown hair and was pretty young and mousy. I want to say she went on to do something broader/bigger.
I remember him talking her into taking off her clothes with the line, "a bra and underwear covers more than a bathing suit, right?"
Later in the movie, she's spiraled out of control when she meets the other slightly older kids in his ring of pornography and washes back quaaludes with orange soda in glass bottles. (I was afraid of orange soda for years.)
Too graphic to be an afterschool special, but too early to be a Lifetime movie.
I could have sworn the title had "Angel" or "Darling" in the name of it, but perhaps I'm misremembering it.
(I must admit my googlefu is failing just because I refuse to include the phrase "child porn" anywhere in a search box.)
You're welcome! I subbed "child abuse" for "child porn" in my search.
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:18 PM on July 7, 2011
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:18 PM on July 7, 2011
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posted by Iris Gambol at 8:55 PM on July 7, 2011