Lifetime’s assortment of new summer films includes stories of hoarding, a woman who packs up her husband’s body in suitcases, and the tale of a woman who plots a jailbreak. The network’s summer movie lineup will kick off on June 11, 2022 with Dirty Little Secret – the one that involves hoarding – starring Melissa Joan Hart (No Good Nick).
Candice King (The Originals) takes on the lead role as a nurse who commits murder in Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story airing June 18th. He’s Not Worth Dying For premieres on June 25th and stars Robin Givens. The summer movie schedule finishes up on July 2nd with the debut of Jailbreak Lovers starring Catherine Bell.
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET STARRING MELISSA JOAN HART AND LIZZIE BOYS
Inspired by true events, Dirty Little Secret follows seventeen-year-old Lucy (Lizzie Boys) who has been painfully isolated from her peers for years, refusing to let anyone near her house in order to hide her family secret – the overwhelming mountain of items filled in every crevice of space in her home. She quietly plans her escape to college while managing her mother Joanna’s (Melissa Joan Hart) hoarding disorder. Outwardly, a highly functioning nurse, Joanna maintains the dysfunction in their home with an obsessive grip but after a tragedy, Lucy must decide if she will hide her mother’s secret, or expose it to the world.
SUITCASE KILLER: THE MELANIE MCGUIRE STORY STARRING CANDICE KING, MICHAEL ROARK, JACKSON HURST AND WENDIE MALICK
Based on a shocking true story, Melanie McGuire (Candice King) was an exceptional fertility nurse, married to her ex-Navy husband Bill (Michael Roark) and doting mother of two boys. When she falls for Brad (Jackson Hurst), a doctor at her clinic, and gets entangled in a steamy love affair, Melanie does the unthinkable. After drugging and murdering Bill, she dismembers him and places the body parts into three suitcases, throwing them into Chesapeake Bay.
But when the suitcases are found on the shores of Virginia Beach, an investigation is launched leading to Melanie as the prime suspect. Led by the efforts of assistant attorney general Patti Prezioso (Wendie Malick), authorities eventually bring Melanie to justice, who despite being convicted, continues to maintain her innocence.
HE’S NOT WORTH DYING FOR STARRING ROBIN GIVENS, HILDA MARTIN, RACHEL BOYD,LACHLAN QUARMBY AND LOCHLYN MUNRO
Inspired by true events, He’s Not Worth Dying For follows the intertwined real and social media lives of Isla (Rachel Boyd), a 19-year-old girl who has established herself as a beauty and fashion influencer and Grace (Hilda Martin) the expected valedictorian of her class with hopes of a veterinary career. Though both are very different, they unknowingly share one thing in common – Jake (Lachlan Quarmby) – who is dating them both without their knowledge.
When Isla and Grace discover that Jake was cheating on them, the girls turn on each other in a jealous rivalry and use their arsenal of social media platforms to badmouth and attack one another. While their followers take sides and pit them against each other, their hatred for one another escalates into a real life fight that ultimately turns deadly.
JAILBREAK LOVERS STARRING CATHERINE BELL AND TOM STEVENS
Inspired by a true story, Jailbreak Lovers follows Toby (Catherine Bell), a woman who always played by the rules. Toby never ran a red light, married the only boy she ever dated, raised a family and went to church. She did everything she was supposed to do. When Toby loses her job and starts a non-profit to rehabilitate abused, rescued dogs at the local prison no one could have anticipated that she would end up on the run, shacked up with her younger lover John (Tom Stevens), a convicted murderer. The star-crossed lovers hatch a plan to break John out of prison by smuggling him out in one of the dog crates, sparking a federal manhunt.
