This film essentially begins with a young junior high school girl named "Dee Johnson" (Susan Swift) coming home and handing her mother "Stella Johnson" (Barbara Eden) a letter from the P.T.A. questioning her moral ability to raise her child. Needless to say this causes Stella to become extremely angry and as a result she quickly proceeds to the next meeting and gives them all a piece of her mind. Unfortunately, unlike the title song by Jeannie C. Riley, the matter doesn't end there as the next day she finds her front yard toilet papered and a rock with a nasty message attached thrown through her kitchen window. So in order to resolve the problem once and for all she decides to even the score by preying on each of their weaknesses. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that the best thing about this film was the presence of Barbara Eden who looked as attractive as ever. On the flip side, however, for a movie that was billed as a comedy the humor wasn't very sharp and the made-for-television format lessened the drama to a certain extent as well. That being said, while this isn't a bad movie by any means, other than the aforementioned Barbara Eden there really wasn't anything special about it and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.
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