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Also known as With Harmful Intent, this 1993 Richard Friedman (Doom Asylum, Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge, Scared Stiff) made for TV movie has Rick Springfield and Joan Van Ark as parents headed for a divorce when a mystery man beats up their kid. Yes, if you're the kind of person who says, "Kids never get hurt in movies," then get ready for this movie, where kids are routinely abused throughout.

Based on the Judith Kelman novel, this giallo-esque film is all about a man - I'm not spoiling it for you - who was abused by the other kids and his mother, while only protected by his sister, but is now out to be the bully to the children of the ones who abused him. It also has an astounding scene where the witness to one of those killings is an elderly man who can't speak due to a stroke and he keeps trying to tell everyone that they are in the presence of a murderer.

What a cast! Beyond the leads, you have Chris Noth, Daniel J. Travanti, Dey Young (who has been geeky yet loveable Kate Rambeau in Rock 'n Roll High School as well as the snooty saleswoman in Pretty Woman) and Michael Patrick Carter as the child in danger. You may have seen him in Milk Money and as the kid in the Good Guys commercial in the original Child's Play.

Man, once major networks stopped making movies like this, the world became a much less bright place.

Well, I notice IMDB has not offered any plot info...that's because it's not possible to do that without sounding vile and disgusting...because that's what this movie is...VILE AND DISGUSTING !! I watched it because I am a humongous Fan of Chris Noth, whom I have met in person and he is a great guy...but if I ever meet him again, I will have no qualms about asking him whatever posessed him to star in something so awful. He plays a former child prodigy who is now a brilliant doctor, who spends his spare time running over small children with his car, with the intent of maiming and crippling them...this is not a "spoiler", because all this is made very clear from the begining...sickening enough?? Oh, it gets better...he is manipulated into doing this, by his incestuous sister, who threatens to with-hold sexual favors from him if their latest victim fails to die...even Clive Barker couldn't write anything so hideous. Please, if you want to see Chris Noth in something worthy of his talent, rent "Teddy Roosevelt and The Roughriders"

The story was just like a bad tummy bug. There was nothing really much to it, except a feeling of sickness and a nasty taste in my mouth. The main character, who plays Super mum, is able to take on errands and even allows a neighbour to keep her front door keys so she could enter at will. As if anyone would do that! Her son spends the majority of the film in hospital after being run over by a creep. Her friend is an elderly man who uses a Ouija board to communicate. The actual weirdo who hurts children in the area lives in a disgusting place infested with rats, but shockingly he's a hospital doctor! It can't get anymore gross when it turns out he's a partner in crime to his sister who organised many despicable attacks against children.

Chris Noth plays a maniac who wrote a children's book as a young lad, posing as a doctor who menaces a community in order to push his sister's son into the position as his school's genius. The only man that can stop him is a cop who plays by his own rules, and is forced to go undercover with the help of his mute father who communicates via oujii board. Will Rick Springfield find out whats up? Or will somebody sabotage his recording studio! Does the mentally retarded boy who operates the book mobile have clues? Watch to find out! I'm not making this up!