Although standard MOW foder, "Perfect Little Angels" is actually not a bad little suspense thriller once you get into it. Some great looking young Canadian actors (especially Brendan Fehr as "Mitch", who acts as good as he looks), and a solid performance from TV staple Cheryl Ladd make this "Disturbing Behaviour" rip-off watchable. The story revolves around mind control in the tightly knit, upscale suburban community Elesium Meadows, where every home is perfect, every mother is June Clever and every teenager is Ken or Barbie. Enter new comer Justine (Jody Thompson, who's performance is, at best, uneven), and her mom (Cheryl Ladd), a recently fatherless family looking for a new start. Justine is immediately approached by the Elesium Meadows gang, led by Brad (Jade Pawluk, a perfect, plastic doll). This group of Gap clad teens are perfect to the point of nausea and begin stalking Justine in order to make her perfect as well. Justine also befriends Mitch (the afore-mentioned Fehr), an outsider who hates the Elesium kids and does his best to keep Justine from them. Oh yes, there's also a mad scientist, Dr. Lawrence (once classy actor Michael York, who phones in his performance here), who feeds everyone vitamins that are also mind control devices that somehow link up to a radio tower in his back yard. Actually, when writing this out, it all seems pretty silly, but it actually works on the small screen as Justine and Mitch rush to defeat the evil doctor and his plans for neighbourhood domination. Once again have to mention the stand our performance of newcomer Brendan Fehr. Very good looking, his every move on screen is a pleasure to watch. This kid has star written all over him. Tim Bonds direction is OK, and the technical aspects of the film are pedestrian. 6 out of 10, but only because of Fehr.
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amitygardens24 June 2005This movie is okay....i'll admit i found it somewhat entertaining, but it wasn't me that turned it to ABC Family in the first place...i had just seen Disturbing Behavior a couple of days or possibly a week before my brother convinced me to watch this movie. The basic plot line is about a sinister doctor determined to help the kids in a small town to make it smoothly through Adolecence. A young man discovers their is something freaky going on and ends up rescuing and isolating a girl he is infatuated with. She is eventually returned to normal, but the lingering question is "Why was she acting so strange?". Fortunatly or Unfortuantly for her, your choice, Her mother is engaged to the Doctor. Ironic, huh? Well, the plot unfolds and there is a bit of suspense, and some referenced humor that i didn't understand until now, but overall it was a pretty good movie. The only thing is that it ripped off Disturbing Behavior...i think that this is a more tamer version of Disturbing Behavior...but i'd recommending watching both and decide which one you like better.
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brandonsites198124 October 2002Disturbing Behavior clone about a teenage girl discovering a sinster plot to turn the local teenagers of a small town into mindless well behaved and well groomed teens who resort to violence when someone doesn't fit into their agenda. It lacks originality both story wise and production value wise, but for a made for television family movie it certainly does offer plenty of entertainment value and contains a decent amount of excitement and boo moments to keep one watching all the way to the end.
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morientes-6840113 April 2024This movie is done many times before and it was very boring and the acting just not very good. I like Cheryl Ladd but sadly this was not one of her best movies. I have seen over 3000 movies and I give this One just 2 out of 10.
Having just moved to a new town, widow Elaine Freedman and her teenage daughter Justine are greeted by the effusive, terribly nice Dr. Calvin Lawrence. Sensing that Justine is bit testy and out of sorts, Dr. Lawrence recommends that she begin taking a special vitamin which he manufactures in his own home. Before long, Justine is the model of perfection -- just like all the other teenagers in town. -
blueisunshine29 January 2002I saw this movies a year ago at 2am because I couldn't fall asleep and instead of falling to sleep which i was planning on I got so wrapped up in the movie and stayed up to watch it. It was in April of 2000. This movie is very good. I really loved the way the girl found out about the happenings in her new and odd neighborhood was very mysterious. To tear myself away would have been very hard. Brendan Ferh, who played Mitch in the movie was good at his part also. I really wish that above anything they would play this movie again on TV so I can watch it again. Even if they do so at three am in the morning I would stay up to watch it. So if anyone who has a say in the matter of what goes on TV reads this just consider what I wrote. Again i loved this movie
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cindywong20 January 2009The movie (Perfect Little Angels) was made in 1998, I've seen it in the mid 2000's, and I liked the movie, I found it somewhat a freaky suspense movie. From the moment that freaky doctor gave the lady three bottles of his home-made vitamins as housewarming gift, I knew there's something weird with him and his vitamins. That freaky doctor was using the people in that small upscale community for his own lab testing project through some radio frequency by giving them his weird home-made vitamins (through injection or pill), it's quite freaky. The young guy who played Mitch in this movie was great, his acting was great, this was the first movie I've seen him in. It's a good movie!
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james20a19 May 2003I saw it the other day on LivingTV.Thought i'd watch it as Brendan Fehr was in it.Watched him in Roswell so assumed it would be worth watching.I have to say it was.It is a great movie and suprisingly nothing like i have seen before.Definately one i recommend
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GMorpheus@netscape.net11 December 2003The movie has a well-produced look, and whoever did the wardrobe deserves the highest of awards. The girls look fantastic and have plenty of opportunity to show off their legs. If that doesn't keep you watching, the plot and storyline will keep you watching. The acting is convincing, and a lot better than most popular TV shows out there. It was fun to look at and fun to watch. Now it needs to be released on DVD.
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moviewiz-414 November 2000Aha... at last a movie worth watching. When seeing "Disturbing Behaviour" only small part are interesting. The ending is not that excellent and the story is too exaggerate.
After seeing this one, i can say this story has been make perfectly, very well and imaginative and have a good beginning and ending. The common sense is good as well.
Only small item that is lacks in this movie is the effect of the drug who is not clear when and how often they comes into effect, other than that, it is all allright. -
Crayoff18 August 2011Perfect Little Angels was a novel by Andrew Neiderman published in 1991. Way before Disturbing Behavior came out. The bestselling author of Playmates and Surrogate Child creates another masterpiece of horror. The teenagers of Elysian Fields are perfect. They don't drink or smoke, and they are always polite to their elders. The new girl in town hasn't learned to behave--but she will, for there are so many horribly effective ways to turn disobedient children into Perfect Angels.
Not a bad book, definitely more young adult but the movie follows it pretty well.
Disturbing Behavior is the rip off. Great Soundtrack though!!!
All in all, each movie does what it can.