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The Eric Roberts Collection: The Wrong High School Sweetheart (dir by David DeCoteau)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

In 2022’s The Wrong High School Sweetheart, Mea Wilkerson plays Danielle, a real estate agent who dated Danny (Alex Trumble) in high school.  (Dani and Danny!  How cute!)  Danielle and Danny broke up when Danny went off to college on a baseball scholarship.  Now, Danny has returned home and he’s eager to start things up again with Danielle.  Danielle’s wimpy fiancé, Tod (Doug Rogers), isn’t happy about that.

“You just had the wrong high school sweetheart,” Vivica A. Fox says once it’s become obvious that Danny is psychotic.  Vivica plays the high school principal.  For some reason, she is best friends with her former student, Danielle.  Vivica A. Fox appears in all of the “Wrong” films and she’s usually cast as an authority figure.  It almost always falls on her to say the film’s title.  Sometimes, she’s a bit judgmental.  If she says you “picked,” the wrong person, you know everything is your fault.  In this once, she makes it clear that Danielle is not to blame because she “just had” the wrong person in her life.  It’s always a fun to see Vivica in these films.

The “Wrong” films are almost always entertaining.  The Wrong High School Sweetheart certainly is.  David DeCoteau’s campy sensibility is uniquely suited to these films.  The Wrong High School Sweetheart features Danny chanting, “Stronger than steel/Hotter than the sun/Danny Brooks won’t stop/Til he gets the job done!” while exercising in his underwear.  Alex Trumble throws himself into the role of Danny and good for him.

As always with the “Wrong” films, some familiar faces show up in small roles.  Tracy Nelson plays a therapist.  And, of course, Eric Roberts shows up as a detective.  Hopefully, we’ll get a sequel called The Wrong Detective.

Previous Eric Roberts Films That We Have Reviewed:

  1. Paul’s Case (1980)
  2. Star 80 (1983)
  3. Runaway Train (1985)
  4. To Heal A Nation (1988)
  5. Best of the Best (1989)
  6. Blood Red (1989)
  7. The Ambulance (1990)
  8. The Lost Capone (1990)
  9. Best of the Best II (1993)
  10. Love, Cheat, & Steal (1993)
  11. Voyage (1993)
  12. Love Is A Gun (1994)
  13. Sensation (1994)
  14. Dark Angel (1996)
  15. Doctor Who (1996)
  16. Most Wanted (1997)
  17. The Alternate (2000)
  18. Mercy Streets (2000)
  19. Tripfall (2000)
  20. Raptor (2001)
  21. Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
  22. Strange Frequency (2001)
  23. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
  24. Border Blues (2004)
  25. Mr. Brightside (2004)
  26. Six: The Mark Unleased (2004)
  27. We Belong Together (2005)
  28. Hey You (2006)
  29. Depth Charge (2008)
  30. Amazing Racer (2009)
  31. The Chaos Experiment (2009)
  32. In The Blink of an Eye (2009)
  33. Bed & Breakfast (2010)
  34. Enemies Among Us (2010)
  35. The Expendables (2010) 
  36. Sharktopus (2010)
  37. Beyond The Trophy (2012)
  38. The Dead Want Women (2012)
  39. Deadline (2012)
  40. The Mark (2012)
  41. Miss Atomic Bomb (2012)
  42. Assault on Wall Street (2013)
  43. Bonnie And Clyde: Justified (2013)
  44. Lovelace (2013)
  45. The Mark: Redemption (2013)
  46. The Perfect Summer (2013)
  47. Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)
  48. Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire (2013)
  49. Self-Storage (2013)
  50. Sink Hole (2013)
  51. A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
  52. This Is Our Time (2013)
  53. Bigfoot vs DB Cooper (2014)
  54. Doc Holliday’s Revenge (2014)
  55. Eternity: The Movie (2014)
  56. Inherent Vice (2014)
  57. Road to the Open (2014)
  58. Rumors of War (2014)
  59. So This Is Christmas (2014)
  60. Amityville Death House (2015)
  61. Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
  62. A Fatal Obsession (2015)
  63. Las Vegas Story (2015)
  64. Sorority Slaughterhouse (2015)
  65. Stalked By My Doctor (2015)
  66. Enemy Within (2016)
  67. Hunting Season (2016)
  68. Joker’s Poltergeist (2016)
  69. Prayer Never Fails (2016)
  70. Stalked By My Doctor: The Return (2016)
  71. The Wrong Roommate (2016)
  72. Dark Image (2017)
  73. The Demonic Dead (2017)
  74. Black Wake (2018)
  75. Frank and Ava (2018)
  76. Stalked By My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge (2018)
  77. The Wrong Teacher (2018)
  78. Clinton Island (2019)
  79. Monster Island (2019)
  80. The Reliant (2019)
  81. The Savant (2019)
  82. Seven Deadly Sins (2019)
  83. Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker’s Nightmare (2019)
  84. The Wrong Mommy (2019)
  85. Exodus of a Prodigal Son (2020)
  86. Free Lunch Express (2020)
  87. Hard Luck Love Song (2020)
  88. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
  89. Top Gunner (2020)
  90. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
  91. The Elevator (2021)
  92. Just What The Doctor Ordered (2021)
  93. Killer Advice (2021)
  94. Megaboa (2021)
  95. Night Night (2021)
  96. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)
  97. The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
  98. Red Prophecies (2021)
  99. A Town Called Parable (2021)
  100. Bleach (2022)
  101. Dawn (2022)
  102. My Dinner With Eric (2022)
  103. 69 Parts (2022)
  104. The Rideshare Killer (2022)
  105. The Company We Keep (2023)
  106. D.C. Down (2023)
  107. Aftermath (2024)
  108. Bad Substitute (2024)
  109. Devil’s Knight (2024)
  110. Insane Like Me? (2024)
  111. Space Sharks (2024)
  112. The Wrong Life Coach (2024)
  113. Broken Church (2025)
  114. Shakey Grounds (2025)
  115. When It Rains In L.A. (2025)

The Eric Roberts Collection: The Wrong Teacher (dir by David DeCoteau)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

When Charlotte (Jessica Morris) meets a younger man named Chris (Philip McElroy), she is both flattered and amused when he asks her out.  “You’re a little young for me,” Charlotte says.  However, Charlotte’s friend, Maddie (Akari Endo), insists that Charlotte really does need to get out more so Charlotte meets up with Chris for drinks.  One things leads to another and soon, Charlotte is having sex with Chris in her classroom!

(Charlotte is an English teacher, along with being a struggling romance novelist.)

The next day, as Charlotte teachers her class, she is shocked when Chris shows up.  “What are you doing here?” Charlotte asks.  Chris reveals that he’s a new student and Charlotte is now his English teacher!

2018’s The Wrong Teacher is one of the many “Wrong” films that David DeCoteau directed for Lifetime.  This one follows the usual pattern.  Chris isn’t ready to let go of his one night of passion with the teacher.  When he discovers that Charlotte is getting back together with her ex-boyfriend (Jason-Shane Scott), he snaps.  Soon, people are getting shot and hit with baseball bats and videos of Chris and Charlotte going at it in the classroom are showing up on the school’s twitter page.  Vivica A. Fox is alarmed that Charlotte could be so foolish.  Charlotte declares, “You messed with the wrong teacher!”  Thanks to some last minute strangeness that sees Charlotte adopting a Southern accent, The Wrong Teacher is enjoyably over the top.

As for Eric Roberts, he plays the assistant principal.  He’s a bit burned-out.  He’s easily annoyed.  He doesn’t want any scandalous behavior in his school.  He’s Eric Roberts and he makes the most of his three scenes.  Eric even stands up and walks in this movie.  He only does that when he’s particularly invested in a role.  The Wrong Teacher?  More like The Right Vice Principal.

Previous Eric Roberts Films That We Have Reviewed:

  1. Paul’s Case (1980)
  2. Star 80 (1983)
  3. Runaway Train (1985)
  4. To Heal A Nation (1988)
  5. Best of the Best (1989)
  6. Blood Red (1989)
  7. The Ambulance (1990)
  8. The Lost Capone (1990)
  9. Best of the Best II (1993)
  10. Love, Cheat, & Steal (1993)
  11. Voyage (1993)
  12. Love Is A Gun (1994)
  13. Sensation (1994)
  14. Dark Angel (1996)
  15. Doctor Who (1996)
  16. Most Wanted (1997)
  17. Mercy Streets (2000)
  18. Tripfall (2000)
  19. Raptor (2001)
  20. Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
  21. Strange Frequency (2001)
  22. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
  23. Border Blues (2004)
  24. Mr. Brightside (2004)
  25. Six: The Mark Unleased (2004)
  26. We Belong Together (2005)
  27. Hey You (2006)
  28. Depth Charge (2008)
  29. Amazing Racer (2009)
  30. The Chaos Experiment (2009)
  31. In The Blink of an Eye (2009)
  32. Bed & Breakfast (2010)
  33. Enemies Among Us (2010)
  34. The Expendables (2010) 
  35. Sharktopus (2010)
  36. Beyond The Trophy (2012)
  37. The Dead Want Women (2012)
  38. Deadline (2012)
  39. The Mark (2012)
  40. Miss Atomic Bomb (2012)
  41. Assault on Wall Street (2013)
  42. Bonnie And Clyde: Justified (2013)
  43. Lovelace (2013)
  44. The Mark: Redemption (2013)
  45. The Perfect Summer (2013)
  46. Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)
  47. Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire (2013)
  48. Self-Storage (2013)
  49. Sink Hole (2013)
  50. A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
  51. This Is Our Time (2013)
  52. Bigfoot vs DB Cooper (2014)
  53. Doc Holliday’s Revenge (2014)
  54. Eternity: The Movie (2014)
  55. Inherent Vice (2014)
  56. Road to the Open (2014)
  57. Rumors of War (2014)
  58. So This Is Christmas (2014)
  59. Amityville Death House (2015)
  60. Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
  61. A Fatal Obsession (2015)
  62. Las Vegas Story (2015)
  63. Sorority Slaughterhouse (2015)
  64. Stalked By My Doctor (2015)
  65. Enemy Within (2016)
  66. Hunting Season (2016)
  67. Joker’s Poltergeist (2016)
  68. Prayer Never Fails (2016)
  69. Stalked By My Doctor: The Return (2016)
  70. The Wrong Roommate (2016)
  71. Dark Image (2017)
  72. The Demonic Dead (2017)
  73. Black Wake (2018)
  74. Frank and Ava (2018)
  75. Stalked By My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge (2018)
  76. Clinton Island (2019)
  77. Monster Island (2019)
  78. The Reliant (2019)
  79. The Savant (2019)
  80. Seven Deadly Sins (2019)
  81. Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker’s Nightmare (2019)
  82. The Wrong Mommy (2019)
  83. Exodus of a Prodigal Son (2020)
  84. Free Lunch Express (2020)
  85. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
  86. Top Gunner (2020)
  87. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
  88. The Elevator (2021)
  89. Just What The Doctor Ordered (2021)
  90. Killer Advice (2021)
  91. Megaboa (2021)
  92. Night Night (2021)
  93. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)
  94. The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
  95. Red Prophecies (2021)
  96. A Town Called Parable (2021)
  97. Bleach (2022)
  98. Dawn (2022)
  99. My Dinner With Eric (2022)
  100. 69 Parts (2022)
  101. The Rideshare Killer (2022)
  102. The Company We Keep (2023)
  103. D.C. Down (2023)
  104. Aftermath (2024)
  105. Bad Substitute (2024)
  106. Devil’s Knight (2024)
  107. Insane Like Me? (2024)
  108. Space Sharks (2024)
  109. The Wrong Life Coach (2024)
  110. Broken Church (2025)
  111. When It Rains In L.A. (2025)

Lifetime Movie Review: The Wrong Life Coach (dir by David DeCoteau)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

In 2024’s The Wrong Life Coach, Morgan Bradley stars as Jordan Roberts, whose popularity as a high school cheerleader did little to prepare her for the pressures of adult life.  Her career is going nowhere.  Her boss (Vivica A. Fox) does not respect her.  Her boyfriend (Hector David, Jr.) is bored with her and their vanilla sex life.  Her mother (Tracy Nelson) is living with her and trying to control her life.  Jordan needs someone to help her get her life together.  She needs a life coach!

(Personally, I’ve never gotten the whole life coach thing but whatever.  Apparently, it works for some people.)

A chance meeting with Liz Kimble (Allison McAtee) changes Jordan’s life.  Though Jordan doesn’t really remember her, she and Liz went to high school together.  And it turns out that Liz is now a life coach!  Soon, Liz is encouraging Jordan to take sexy pictures, demand more from her career, and to stand up to her domineering mother!

At first, it all seems perfect.  Except …. Liz is not a certified life coach!  She’s just repeating a bunch of stuff that she heard from her own life coach, Rhonda (Meredith Thomas).  It may sound like the start of a hilarious comedy but it turns out that Liz is a little bit crazy.  Liz has never gotten over losing her spot on the cheerleading squad to Jordan and now, she’s determined to get revenge,

In quick order, Jordan loses her job, her relationship with her mother, and nearly her boyfriend as well!  Plus, her best friend has gone missing!  After Jordan tells Liz to get lost, Liz begins to obsessively stalk Jordan.  What Jordan doesn’t know is that Liz has placed hidden cameras all over her house and she’s even hacked into Jordan’s email.  Jordan thinks that she’s had a good job interview with Mr. Gordon. (Hey, it’s Eric Roberts!)  But remember those lingerie-clad photos that Liz encouraged Jordan to send to her boyfriend?  Well, those pictures end up getting sent to Mr. Gordon as well.

“I couldn’t hire you if I wanted to,” Mr. Gordon says.  When even Eric Roberts refuses to work with you, you know you’ve asked the wrong person for advice!

“Girl, you listened the wrong life coach.”

She sure did!

I love the Lifetime “Wrong” films.  The Wrong Life Coach is a tremendous amount of fun, from Allison McAtee’s over-the-top performance as Liz to the side-eye that Vivica A. Fox gives Jordan every time she makes a mistake.  As always, with the “Wrong” films, director David DeCoteau fully embraces the melodrama and creates a film that’s so ludicrous that you can’t help but love it.  Any director could make a film about a crazy life coach.  But only David DeCoteau has the courage to have that life coach make her diabolical plans while wearing her old high school cheerleader uniform.

Watching this film reminded me of how much I love Lifetime and its demented films.  I look forward to reviewing a lot more of them in 2025!

Hopefully, more than a few of them will feature Eric Roberts!

Previous Eric Roberts Films That We Have Reviewed:

  1. Star 80 (1983)
  2. Blood Red (1989)
  3. The Ambulance (1990)
  4. The Lost Capone (1990)
  5. Love, Cheat, & Steal (1993)
  6. Love Is A Gun (1994)
  7. Sensation (1994)
  8. Dark Angel (1996)
  9. Doctor Who (1996)
  10. Most Wanted (1997)
  11. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
  12. Mr. Brightside (2004)
  13. Six: The Mark Unleased (2004)
  14. Hey You (2006)
  15. In The Blink of an Eye (2009)
  16. Enemies Among Us (2010)
  17. The Expendables (2010) 
  18. Sharktopus (2010)
  19. The Dead Want Women (2012)
  20. Deadline (2012)
  21. The Mark (2012)
  22. Miss Atomic Bomb (2012)
  23. Lovelace (2013)
  24. The Mark: Redemption (2013)
  25. Self-Storage (2013)
  26. This Is Our Time (2013)
  27. Inherent Vice (2014)
  28. Road to the Open (2014)
  29. Rumors of War (2014)
  30. Amityville Death House (2015)
  31. A Fatal Obsession (2015)
  32. Stalked By My Doctor (2015)
  33. Enemy Within (2016)
  34. Joker’s Poltergeist (2016)
  35. Prayer Never Fails (2016)
  36. Stalked By My Doctor: The Return (2016)
  37. The Wrong Roommate (2016)
  38. Dark Image (2017)
  39. Black Wake (2018)
  40. Stalked By My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge (2018)
  41. Clinton Island (2019)
  42. Monster Island (2019)
  43. The Savant (2019)
  44. Seven Deadly Sins (2019)
  45. Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker’s Nightmare (2019)
  46. The Wrong Mommy (2019)
  47. Exodus of a Prodigal Son (2020)
  48. Free Lunch Express (2020)
  49. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
  50. Top Gunner (2020)
  51. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
  52. Just What The Doctor Ordered (2021)
  53. Killer Advice (2021)
  54. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)
  55. The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
  56. A Town Called Parable (2021)
  57. Bleach (2022)
  58. My Dinner With Eric (2022)
  59. Aftermath (2024)