Mommy Meanest (2024 Lifetime)
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Cast: Lisa Rinna, Briana Skye, Bradley Stryker
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer(s): Gregg McBride
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Divorced mother Madelyn (Lisa Rinna) and her daughter Mia (Briana Skye) have always had a tight bond. But when Mia starts spending more time with her new boyfriend and is on the verge of leaving for college, Madelyn is panicked by her emerging independence. When Mia starts to receive a barrage of degrading texts, as a protective mother, Madelyn is determined to find out who is harassing her daughter and will do anything to help her, bringing them closer together again. As the hundreds of texts become more threatening, Mia begins to wonder if her tormentor is someone closer than she could have ever imagined. Delilah Hamlin appears in the movie as Mia’s friend Summer. (2024)
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Inspired by actual events (I’d like to see the receipts for this one. WELP People had them!)
Lisa Rinna (in a wig) fights with her husband and he little girl daughter runs to her rescue, “Together Forever no matter Whatever.” They hug.
Flash to teen Mia and lip-flipped Lisa Rinna in current times. Mia is being bullied online.
Flash to one month earlier, Mia gives a speech to her whole school about bullying. Mia was made fun of for being poor, and pennies were thrown at her. Mia turned their pennies into a charity for animals. Mia’s best friend Eliot is by her side and has a crush, but Mia is more interested in the cute MVP Josh Landon. Mia has her sights on the East Coast for college, and so does Josh Landon. (Swoon!)
Mia’s father, Erik, shows up to see the speech but stays away. Lisa Rinna chases after him and tells him to talk to his daughter. Erik is confused as to why Lisa Rinna wants to act like a happy family now. He tells her that she will soon get the empty nest she deserves. (Lisa Rinna’s boyfriend, another teacher, breaks up with her on the same day.)
Lisa Rinna is the school’s music teacher and talks to the girls in the chorus about the setlist and cyber bullies who say they suck. Lisa Rinna gets corned by the principal, and he wants her to change his teaching style.
Eliot leaves a nasty voicemail, and Mia gets a threatening text message after a night out with Josh Landon. Mia gushes to her mom, and Lisa Rinna seems jealous. Eliot also seems jealous of Mia’s newfound popularity. Mia ignores and blocks. (This is what I do. Sorry, trolls.)
Lisa Rinna conducted the chorus and then pretended to play the piano. (It is great!)
Another batch of texts comes in and gets Mia down. Lisa Rinna asks Mia to stay home and watch Gilmore Girls. Mia decides to get ice cream with Josh Landon, which takes her mind off the threatening text messages—there are five hundred plus. Lisa Rinna comforts her daughter and loves the quality time.
Lisa Rinna turns out to be the one TEXTING HER DAUGHTER!!!! (She uses cool lingo that she hears around school from the students. “Cookie Jaring”
Mia talks of having self-harm ideation, and Lisa Rinna decides to take her daughter to the principal. Lisa Rinna also talks to Erik about what is going on.
Mia gets a bullying text from her mom, and she thinks the bully has hacked her mom’s phone. Mia asks Eliot point blank if he did it, and he denies it. Then, a picture of Mia and Josh kissing is texted to the entire French class. Lisa Rinna gleefully asks her daughter to go to sushi and get a new phone number. When they left the phone store, the salesman asked if Lisa Rinna needed any more burner phones. (Whoops!)
Josh Landon is also getting mean text messages. Instead of bringing him and Mia closer, they are causing a big fight.
Mia also fights with her mother, which causes the bullying to intensify. Lisa Rinna sends messages under a blanket in her closet from her laptop. To take suspicion off herself, Lisa Rinna sends mean text messages to herself and earns back her daughter’s love.
The school’s principal sits Lisa Rinna down to discuss her missing classes and students’ recitals. She explains that Mia’s bullies’ stress has affected her family.
Eliot gets a text making fun of his birthmark, which is the size of Oregon, and Mia is the only person who knows about it. He accuses Mia of sending the texts herself for attention. Then, other people also start getting texts from Mia and quotes from her journal. The journal shows up in Eliot’s locker, and he is suspended.
The detective tells Lisa Rinna that she can’t pick and choose what she shares with them and asks to see the messages that were sent to her. The bully will make a mistake, and the detective is set on figuring this out.
Lisa Rinna tries to distract herself from everything going on by spending time with her on-again/off-again boyfriend, Scot. It is interrupted by Mia freaking out because the principal says he won’t write Mia a recommendation letter for a scholarship. (Little does Mia know that Lisa Rinna asked the principal not to write the letter.)
Mia is home alone and freaking out. She also finds burner phones in her mother’s room and the stash in the closet. The evidence is damning. All the text is spayed out on the screen, and more are scheduled. Mia put it together that her mother is her bully. Mia rushes to tell Eliot, and he is quick to call her mom a psycho. (Which, I would be like, hold on, dawg. That’s my mom you’re talking about.)
To get revenge and catch her mother in the act. Eliot calls Lisa Rinna and acts like Mia is suicidal. Lisa Rinna rushes into the bathroom and sees blood in the shower. On the wall is written “I KNOW WHO YOU ARE CYBERBULLY MOTHER.”
Mia finds her mother trying to destroy evidence and accuses her mother of bullying her so she could look like her savior. Lisa Rinna says she did everything for Mia and doesn’t want Mia to abandon her. Mia has her phone on speakerphone, and the whole conversation plays for the police. The detective comes in to take Lisa Rinna away.
Mia won’t let her mother isolate her anymore and decides to work on her relationship with her estranged father, Erik. She also rekindles things with hunk Josh!
Lisa Rinna is out on bail and left home alone, which she was trying to avoid the whole movie.
Side Note/Stray Thoughts
Crisis Text Line is here to help with bullying. Reach a Crisis Counselor by texting HOME to 741741.
Lisa Rinna’s daughter, Delilah Hamlin, plays summer.
The motives of the mother were thin, but Lisa Rinna’s lips are not, so pour it up for that!
My Favorite bully texts include:
I REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE UGLY, SPOILER ALERT YOU STILL ARE!
CANDIDATE FOR DOG OF THE YEAR!
WANT TO KNOW WHY EVERYONE HATES YOU? LOOK IN ANY MIRROR
Overall rating
Number of Kills: None(0 knives)
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
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Didn’t Lifetime already do a movie very similar to this years ago? Yes, it was called Social Nightmare!
Those lips!!!🤣🤣🤣
I had a hard time focusing on the movie because of Lisa rinna’s horrible fillers in her face! Goooood lawd! Redonkulous!
Briana Skye (Mia) looks more like she could be Jessica Alba’s daughter than Lisa Rinna’s daughter!