This has got to be the strongest case for “we watched it so you don’t have to.”

Written by Paul “Raging Bull” Schrader, and the launching point for that Joan Jett acting career we all remember, behold the movie so wildly popular they didn’t even bother giving it a US DVD release.

Which makes no sense. Who wouldn’t want a TV movie that somehow snuck its way into a theatrical release, where poor Michael J Fox is only kind of playing Greg Universe and definitely did not smooch his hot mess of a sister. At all. No sir. This is a very marketable script.

Content warning for discussion of sexual assault, parental abuse, and incest.

Lindsay Lohan’s breakdown on The Canyons.

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