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The theme song to "Desperate Lives" was written and sung by Rick Springfield. Some of the movie was filmed at William S. Hart High School in Newhall, Santa Clarita, California. Home media. Desperate Lives was released on DVD on April 21, 2010. Keyboard Cat meme. A Keyboard Cat video featuring clips from the film was uploaded to YouTube in 2009.
- Drama
A high school counselor wages a one-woman war on drugs in Desperate Lives, starring Diana Scarwid, Diane Ladd, Sam Bottoms and future Academy Award® winner H...
- 3 min
- 22.3K
- Warner Bros.
"Desperate Lives" has a great cast. Scott Cameron,played by Doug McKeon(On Golden Pond), is a kid who hangs around with kids who do drugs. Sandy Cameron, Scott's sister, Sandy, played by the beautiful Helen Hunt(Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Mr. Saturday Night, and Mad About You)is dating a boy named Steve, played by Grant Kramer(Hardbodies and ...
Brief Synopsis. High school brother and sister Helen Hunt and Doug McKeon (in this second TV-movie in as many nights) get involved with drugs. Tom Atkins and Diane Ladd are their parents, Diana Scarwid their student counselor, and Sam Bottoms the local pusher.
- Robert Michael Lewis
- Norman Alden
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An absolutely insane anti-drug made-for-TV movie from the early 1980s, Desperate Lives ushered in the Nancy Reagan era of moral hypocrisy with a bang. A film that's well meaning and good intentioned to the point of annoyance and ignorance, it's little surprise that Desperate Lives has gone on to become a very minor cult classic among those that ...
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Desperate Lives (TV Movie 1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
