Starring Annie Potts (short hair)
Susan Wilson is an unemployed house mom. She discovers her 14 year old daughter talks dirty to middle-age men. One of them tries to pick up her daughter in a park. She prevents the meeting and the guy just walks away. This event causes her to freak out that the internet is allowing pedophiles to seduce young girls.
A trip to the police is fruitless since the laws have not been updated to make this sort of thing illegal. Of course the police has a budding special unit. She teams with them to lure these pedophiles into the open where they can be arrested. Susan decides that her job will now be to talk dirty to old men to make them think they are going to have sex with underage teens.
If you’ve seen “To Catch a Predator”, that’s better. There’s no annoying mom freaking out all day and meddling. It’s just Chris Hanson and whatever local P.D. in the house. I guess this movie was made because it’s one screwball housewife versus the internet. The busts are not awesome. They show up and get arrested after a tense moment. We don’t even get to hear or read the stuff they talk about.
This movie is a rare strike-out for a former member of the Designing Women cast.
