Joanna Kerns
Celeste Cooper
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- Drama Thriller A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
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Apr 13, 1997 · Mother Knows Best: Directed by Larry Shaw. With Joanna Kerns, Christine Elise, Grant Show, Jessica Walter. A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Larry Shaw
- 1997-04-13
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Rich-bitch Momma Celeste (Joanna Kerns), buys naive nice-kid Laurel (Christine Elise) everything she could ever need or want -- a college education, a condo, a car, you name it. But wait . . . something is terribly wrong here . . .
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Mother Knows Best is a 1997 American television thriller film directed by Larry Shaw which aired on April 13, 1997 on the ABC network.
Celeste Cooper finds a husband for her daughter, Laurel, but when she later decides that he's not good enough for her, she hires someone to murder him.
•Joanna Kerns as Celeste Cooper
•Christine Elise as Laurel Cooper Rogers
•Grant Show as Ted Rogers
•Jessica Walter as Joan
•Sherman Augustus as Dale Cutler
•David Spielberg as George Cooper
Filming for "Mother Knows Best" took place in Salt Lake City, Utah.
John Ferguson from Radio Times said:
A woman (Joanna Kerns) finds a husband (Grant Show) for her daughter (Christine Elise), then decides he's not good enough and must be killed.
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- Larry Shaw
- TV-PG
- Joanna Kerns
Mother Knows Best. 1997 · 1 hr 30 min. TV-PG. Thriller · Drama. An obsessed and over-controlling mother drives her daughter away, and then turns towards deadly measures to win back her affection. Subtitles: English. Starring: Joanna Kerns Jessica Walter Christine Elise Grant Show David Spielberg Kristen Dalton Jeanette O'Connor Sherman Augustus.
- Larry Shaw
- January 1, 1997
- 89 min
Celeste, a wealthy socialite, opposes her daughter Laurel's marriage to Ted, a young man with a blue-collar background whom Laurel met through a personal ad. The couple proceed with their wedding, despite Celeste's threats to cut off her daughter completely.
Mother Knows Best - Full Cast & Crew. Joanna Kerns plays a stylish yet disturbed socialite who concocts a murder-for-hire scheme to get rid of her socially...
