Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern (Rolling Vengeance, The Park Is Mine) and written by Iris Friedman, Petru Popescu and its star, Yvette Mimieux, this is about Linda Foster. She isn’t just a viewer of TV; she’s a resident of her favorite soap opera Savage Hills in her own mind. While the rest of the world sees flickering pixels, Linda sees a soulmate in Glen Stevens (Simon MacCorkindale). Her apartment isn’t a home; it’s a temple dedicated to a man who doesn’t exist.

So she does what any of us would: she gets a movie makeover, goes to Hollywood and does more than meet Glen. She carefully constructs a persona that mirrors his TV love interests to secure a one-night stand.

Of course, she doesn’t see him as a himan being. He’s Michael to her.

She can do just about anything. She systematically dismantles his marriage, positioning herself as the only person who truly understands him. Meta alert: She then works their true story into the actual show that she loves and makes everyone fall in love with her.

Who cares if she’s crazy?

Well, Glen, maybe.

The tension peaks when the real world and the soap world collide. When Glen realizes he isn’t being loved, but consumed, he uses the only weapon an actor has: the script. By demanding his character be killed off, he attempts to kill Linda’s reality.

Well, Glen does. He discovers the truth, then gets his character killed off. This upsets Linda so much that she goes back to the insane asylum. She falls in love with another character and that’s that.

You’ll want more violence and sex, as well as Linda to actually, you know, be mental. But she isn’t. She’s just in love. And this is a TV movie.

But it’s still fun and you can laugh at how much the shopping montage in Pretty Woman steals from this movie.

You can watch this on Tubi.