Deadly Lessons
| Deadly Lessons | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Distributed by | ABC |
| Directed by | William Wiard |
| Produced by |
Leonard Goldberg (executive producer) Deborah Stoff (supervising producer) (as Deborah Aal) Ervin Zavada (producer) |
| Written by | Jennifer Miller |
| Starring |
Larry Wilcox Donna Reed David Ackroyd Diane Franklin Ally Sheedy Nancy Cartwright |
| Music by | Ian Freebairn-Smith |
| Cinematography |
Ronald Víctor García Andrew Jackson |
| Editing by | Jack Harnish |
| Production company | Leonard Goldberg Productions |
| Country |
 United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Release date | March 7, 1983 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
Deadly Lessons is a 1983 made-for-TV movie starring Larry Wilcox, Academy Award winner Donna Reed, David Ackroyd, Diane Franklin, future Brat Packer Ally Sheedy and Nancy Cartwright, later the voice of Bart Simpson.
Plot
A teenaged girl, Stephanie Aggiston, is sent to a pretigious private girl's academy for the summer to brush up on Advanced French, and finds the school to be a bit snobbish, being a girl from the country herself. However, she does make friends with Marita Armstrong, her roommate. Little do they know Marita is being stalked from afar...
Murders began occurring and Det. Russ Kemper (Wilcox) comes to investigate. As more girls are killed, everyone wonders not only who is committing the murders but also who will be next. Stephanie attempts to find the murderer herself, who only kills when a girl wanders around alone. Stephanie enlists the help of the new attractive stable-boy, Eddie, who instead falls in love with her for 'not being like the other girls.' Soon, Eddie is beginning to be suspected as the murder.
Towards the end of the summer, the girls are slowly evacuated from the school, but Marita is kidnapped on the day she is set to leave by the school's janitor, Robert, who bounds and gags Marita in his quarters on campus. He is apparently deluded into thinking his daughter was Marita's mother (which was not true by any means). However, Marita signals from her captivity to Stephanie who has Kemper follow her to arrest Robert and save Marita from being killed.
The killer turns out to be Det. Kemper, the illegitimate child of headmistress Miss Wade, who had given him up for adoption as a baby.
Cast
- Bill Paxton appears in a small role.
- Ally Sheedy plays Marita.
- Donna Reed plays Miss Wade, headmistress of a prestigious girls school.
- Diane Franklin as Stephanie
- Renée Jones as Calli
- Deena Freeman as Lauren Peele
- Krista Errickson as Tember
- Robin Gammell as Morgan Rank
- Rick Rossovich as Craig
- Ellen Geer as Mrs. Grant
Release
The movie premiered on March 7, 1983.