Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life | |
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Directed by | Tom McLoughlin |
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Distributed by | Lifetime |
Release date
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June 20, 2005 |
Running time
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87 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life is an original Lifetime television movie which was first broadcast on June 20, 2005. It was directed by Tom McLoughlin and written by Wesley Bishop and Richard Kletter. The movie stars Jeremy Sumpter, Kelly Lynch, and Lyndsy Fonseca. It is now available on DVD. The film is meant to be a cautionary tale about the alleged affects of internet pornography addiction on teenage boys.
Justin Petersen is a popular 16-year-old high school student and a successful swimmer with a steady girlfriend, Amy. Justin's coach announces that Justin has made the All-State team, which pleases his parents, particularly his mother Diane, who used to swim as well.
Justin is introduced to internet pornography when a friend sends him a link to a softcore webcam site featuring Monica, a fellow student who has a crush on him. Captivated, Justin is then exposed to a porn film at a party, and later browses more explicit pornographic websites, only to be caught by his mother. It is easy for Diane to be aware of her son's behavior, as Justin does little to make his activities clandestine. Throughout the film, Justin's severe addiction to porn escalates and he views it in increasingly public places, making little effort to cover his tracks.
Justin's late nights in front of his computer and escalating addiction soon impact his lap times. He betrays Amy's trust by downloading porn onto her PDA, and exposes his younger brother Alex (who's only 11) to porn, leaving Alex queasy. Justin begins to gain a reputation at school of being a "porn freak" after showing his friends S&M porn. Eventually, his pornography addiction causes him to almost miss the All-State swim finals, where he places third. Later that night, while Diane puts away Alex's neatly folded laundry into his top drawer, she then discovers a CD-R titled Virgin Vaginas (which Alex had stolen from Justin's bedroom earlier). Eventually, Diane confronts both of her sons and moves Justin's computer into the living room, much to Justin's dismay.