Michael Scott Movies

A frazzled widower (James Van Der Beek) hires a nanny (Doris Roberts) to reign in his rambunctious twins. Mrs. Miracle, as she's dubbed by the kids, has a profound effect on the boys and also lends her magic to their dad, who needs some help of his own. Based on the novel by Debbie Macomber. ~ Brie Hearn, Rovi

With "best friends" like Claudia (Claudette Mink), suburban housewife-mother Beth (Megan Gallagher) certainly doesn't need any enemies. Unbeknownst to Beth, the psychotic Claudia has always envied her lifestyle, and indeed is desirous of "becoming" Beth. Using secrets and intimate details known only to the two women, Claudia systematically ruins Beth's life and steals away her husband and children--while trusting Beth has no idea who among her circle of friends has been undermining her! But the worst is yet to come, as Claudia demonstrate that she will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. . .not even murder. A typical entry in the Lifetime Channel's Monday-evening TV movie package, Best Friends premiered on November 13, 2005. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Suggested by a real-life homicide case which occurred in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1986, the made-for-TV Murder at 75 Birch gets underway when the wife of dentist Rick Todson (Gregory Harrison) is killed. According to Rick, his late spouse Pat (Wendel Meldrum) had been murdered by a burglar, a story the police find hard to swallow. One person who is willing to stand by Rick is his sister-in-law Gwen (Melissa Gilbert)--and when Gwen's own husband Dave (Vyto Ruginis) dies in a car accident, she turns to Rick for comfort and solace. Ultimately Gwen falls in love with Rick, but their relationship begins to unravel after a series of strange incidents which suggest that the authorities' suspicions concerning Rick's involvement in his wife's death were not entirely groundless. Reaching a tense climax as Gwen and the police work together to crack the case, Murder at 75 Birch first aired February 9, 1999 on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The made-for-TV Before He Wakes is based on the novel by Jerry Bledsoe),which in turn was inspired by the true story of convicted murderer Barbara Stager (who at the time of the film was slated for her first parole hearing in 2006). A small North Carolina town is shocked when popular high school baseball coach Ron Michaels (Timothy Carhart) is killed in his sleep. The killer turns out to be his wife Bridget (Jaclyn Smith), a successful career woman who is widely loved and respected in the community. Bridget insists that she shot her husband by accident, and the police are willing to believe her story--until members of Ron's family, joined with the relatives of Bridget's first husband, raise a number of disturbing questions. Ultimately it is revealed that Bridget has been leading a double life, posing as a pillar of the community while mounting huge debts to maintain her sumptuous lifestyle--and it is determined that Bridget killed her first husband, who died under similar circumstances as the hapless Ron Michaels. All of the character names are changed for various reasons, and a great deal of dramatic license is taken with the sequence of events (in real life, the cops weren't quite as slow on the upstake as they're shown to be here!) Before He Wakes made its first CBS appearance on December 1, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

When the courts fail to protect her daughter from her pedophilliac father, a recent divorcee takes the child and joins an underground network that protects mothers and abused children from their abusers and the unsympathetic court system by secretly shuttling into different towns and providing them with new identities every time her relentless husband tracks them down. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

When he is accidentally left behind by his owners, a devoted dog sets off on an incredible journey across Canada to find them. Though Heck the dog doesn't know it, he must hurry, for the family is about to leave Vancouver, British Columbia and move to Australia. Heck is helped out along the way by a friendly hobo. Trouble comes in the form of a dog catcher who is determined to send Heck to the pound. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

In this thriller, only a determined psychiatrist can save a traumatized, catatonic girl from going to prison for the murder of her parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Lauren Holly plays the hasn't-got-a-clue heroine of the made-for-cable melodrama Dangerous Heart. When her policeman husband is killed, the grieving wife seeks comfort and companionship. She falls for the line dispensed by slick Timothy Daly, never dreaming that her new beau is the man responsible for her husband's death. Daly is only after the money stolen from him by Holly's late husband, and he isn't particular as to how to get it. The suspenseful denouement of Dangerous Heart helps one to forget the conspicuous lack of logic in the establishing scenes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this made-for-cable thriller, Mimi Rogers portrays a cop who, burned out by her work, transfers to the forensics staff as an evidence photographer. While investigating a string of killings, the trail of evidence leads to the married man with whom she's having an affair. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

An orphaned white teen and a Cree Indian boy must put their differences aside to survive when they get lost together in the Canadian wilderness. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi