Some Reviews
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (8-10 p.m., LIFE) Jeremy Sumpter turns in a pretty decent performance as Justin, a 16-year-old seduced by Internet porn. Since this is Lifetime, the original movie tries to keep it as tame as possible while still showing an addiction's consequences, which in this case is the fall of a relatively good kid who simply lets his hormones get the best of him. A more provocative and timely subject might have been the dangers surrounding, say, Justin's dad. The incidence of older men -- husbands and fathers -- getting hooked on Internet porn is rising. Lifetime.
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Ruin is just a click away in Lifetime flick
By Kevin McDonough
Monday, June 20, 2005
Actress Kelly Lynch first got my attention as a stone cold junkie in the 1989 film “Drugstore Cowboy.” Now she’s playing the mother of a teenage jock with a very serious problem in the cautionary TV drama “Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life” (8 p.m., Lifetime). Teenage swimming champ Justin Petersen (Jeremy Sumpter) has it all. He’s going to the state finals and is on track to get a huge scholarship. He’s got a sweet girlfriend, Amy (Lyndsy Fonseca), who’d be ever sweeter, thinks Justin, if she wasn’t so hung up on church and abstinence.
But Justin soon has other problems. While attending a party with a rougher crowd than he’s used to, he is exposed to Internet pornography. But while the other guys seem to take this rough material in stride, Justin develops and all-consuming interest. His mother, Diane (Lynch), notices, and demands that her husband have a talk with him. But Justin’s dad sees this as a normal rite of passage and even recalls the hidden Playboys of his youth.
Since this is a pretty predictable and didactic film, we soon learn that Dad’s boys-will-be-boys approach is outmoded. Internet porn is a pervasive multibillion-dollar industry designed to entice and seduce, and it’s all just a keystroke away. What we never learn here is just why Justin goes bonkers over the smut while his friends remain so blase. In quick succession, he loses interest in school, family, his sweetheart, the swim team and life itself.
Internet pornography may just be a 21st-century plague, but “Cyber Seduction” proves that the formula for movies like this really hasn’t changed much since “Reefer Madness.”
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Tom Dorsey
Lifetime's 'CyberSeduction' should put parents on Web alert
Even at the height of the Dot.com disaster, pornography sites were raking in money as fast as they could.
They are easily the most-profitable addresses on the Internet, and there are far more of them than any other kind of sites.
Why?
Because sex sells. Always has. Always will.
Some people are literally addicted to pornography sites and run up huge credit-card bills to access them.
Among those who are obsessed with sites offering sexual delights are teenage boys -- which brings us to "Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life," a Lifetime movie at 9 tonight.
Lifetime likes to make films about problems faced by women. This story is about a mom who discovers that her model son has fallen victim to the lure.
Justin has a computer in his bedroom to help with school. One day a message pops up inviting him to sample some sexy photos. He's human, so he takes a look -- and the first thing you know he's hooked. The more he sees, the more he wants to see. It takes over his life.
When his mother first discovers this, she wants his dad to have a talk with him. Dad says boys have always been interested in pinups. He recalls hiding a Playboy under his mattress when he was 16. But Justin's problem goes way beyond sneaking a peek at a centerfold.
The film, while a bit trite in spots, makes some good points about things like keeping computers in living or family rooms and installing content filters. It also shows how smart kids can get around the obstacles.
The movie is worth seeing as an alert to parents to patrol the cyber world invading their homes.
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