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**SPOILERS** Suzanne Boxer, Jennifer Blanc, had it in for Heather Romley, Shannen Doherty, since she was 12 years old when Heather won first prize over her in a local talent contest. In fact Suzanne didn't even finish in the running freezing up on stage while singing off key "Beautiful Dreamer".

It's now some five years later with Heather the singing sensation of the local collage group "Dead Pink" and on the verge, her and her group, of breaking into the big time in the Rock Music business. It's then out of nowhere this mosey and gigging young girl enters Heather's life named Zanne Amstrong. Zanne it turns out has been institutionalized for some two years with a mental breakdown and is in fact the girl that Heather beat in that talent contest Suzanne Boxer.

The movie is about revenge pure and simple with Zanne at first getting very friendly with the unsuspecting Heather and then worming herself into both Heathers professional and personal life. Zanne does this by stealing Heather's not so on the ball boyfriend, a guitarist in the group "Dead Pink", "Simple" Simon, Jason London. This happened after Zanne got picked, against the advice of her fellow "Dead Pink" musicians, by Heather to be her back up singer.

The cunning and somewhat unstable, to say the least, Zanne also goes so far as to get Heather in trouble at school in the English Literature class she attends. Zanne jeopardizes Heathers collage scholarship in planting a fake report that leads her teacher English Prof. Gunderson, Harry J. Lennix, to suspect that she plagiarized it from the works of author Joyce Carol Oates.

With her life now in shambles Heather quits the "Dead Pink" rock group and goes solo with the only friend she has left writer and music arranger as well as guitarist Nick, John Livingston. It's then when a person out of Zannes past shows up and is about to screw up all her plans, thats until she murdered him, former boyfriend Brad Stern, Rafer Weigel.

It's when Heather finally finds out the truth about Zanne from peaking into her scrapbook and later from her estranged mother Mrs. Boxer, Harriet Sansom Harris,that she finally puts two and two together! Zanne is the girl whom she beat in a talent contest some five years ago ,Susanne Boxer, and never forgave her for doing that!

Now pumped up and ready to go into action Heather, knowing who she's up against, together with her singing partner Nick takes on Zanne and her former singer group "Dead Pink" in a dramatic battle of the groups contest at a local nightclub. Zanne at first seeming up to the challenge, in battling Heather for the first place prize, suddenly falls apart and goes into a complete meltdown mode. It's then that all the horrors and sins of her past life, that she kept secret from the world, catches up with her.

Unable to continue as she just loses it on stage Zanne breaks down, in her mothers arms, into a sobbing and scared little girl knowing that her big chance to be #1 has passed her by for good. Zanne also knows that, in the murder of her former boyfriend Brad, she'll very likely never see the outside of a prison or mental institution for the rest of her life.

This movie is basicaly "Single White Female" meets "The hand that rocks the cradle" meets "Poison ivy" meets "Fatal Attraction"....I'm sure you've got the general idea. A movie that's been done so many times it's not even funny, the only thing I liked about it at all was that rather then nanny,roommate or scheming mistress oriented this was focused on music. That didn't make it a good movie but it does garner it maybe half a point on the rating scale.

But the movie is very predictable and after seeing this type of movie over nad over again, it just wears a bit thin. Though the One thing in it's favor is that it is a bit better, I must admit then pretty much all of the above mentioned flicks except for Fatal Attraction.

The only time I'd recommend someone watch this Vh1 gem(not!) is if they have the flu and it's a choice between this movie and a trashy talk show and their really tired of sleeping and feeling sick. Then it might be worth viewing. Or if they just really like this genre of movie. Otherwise it's missable.