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Total Movies Watched: 24
Total First Time Views: 13
Amount raised for BOXVILLE: $1,836.18
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) d. John Harrison (USA) (93 min) (3rd viewing)
Betty (Blondie's Deborah Harry), an attractive, chipper, middle-aged suburbanite, is making preparations for a dinner party. On the menu: the paperboy Timmy (Matthew Lawrence), who is none too wild about being selected as the main dish. In an effort to keep his host distracted and stave off his time in the roaster pan, the lad reads selections from a collection of stories, entrancing her with tales of mummies and grad students and not-so-dead scrolls, crippled millionaires and hit men and vengeful felines, gargoyles and artists and promises made in the dark….
