Daniel Adepo News Today

Good melodrama has a whiff of prurience with a shimmer of moralizing. Bad melodrama is schlock that thinks it has something to say. The Violent Heart – a teetering pile of coincidences masquerading as a story – barely passes muster as even the latter. Cassie (Van Patten, crippled by an atrocious script) is appalling, a spoiled middle class brat with daddy issues revolving around her belief that her father, who is also her English teacher (Haas), is having an affair with one of his fellow s...