Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life

2005 "What happens when simple curiosity turns into addiction?"
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Released: 20 June 2005 Released
Producted By: Lifetime
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A high school kid develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.

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Drama, TV Movie

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Tom McLoughlin

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Wordiezett So much average
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Lmaoeverytim3 Honestly, Lifetime has a habit of making after-school-specials unintentionally funny. I just watched this movie for the first time with some girlfriends, and this is by far the dumbest/funniest Lifetime movie ever made.. Followed by the movie ' Born Bad '. I can't even begin to explain the movie without laughing hysterically. Every other person I was watching it with took it too seriously, all of the 'Omg'(s) and 'Who does that'(s); hence why it came off as a hilarious comedy to me.-MAJOR SPOILER ALERT- A sixteen year old Justin Peterson makes all-state at his high school swim team and suddenly goes from the kid no one gave a crap about, to cool enough for the school- ditching party-goers and a few football jocks to want to have him in their clique. He ends up getting invited to one of the guy's parties and brings along his religious girlfriend, Amy, to see people at the party getting hopped up on beer (probably lite) and albeit, SOFTCORE porn. Girls and guys watching it. Who has parties like that? Justin seems to fancy girls strutting in front of the camera for minutes twisting the laces of their corsets. Then he takes a peek at Monica, the school slut whom has a site of her own where she strips and does 'naughty' things in front of her webcam, is sitting across the way, making goo-goo eyes at him. Of course Justin stares at her for a moment and then is being pulled away from the party by his girlfriend. Naturally the camera then shoots back to Monica whom has already looked away, giving her boytoy, Dooly, the impression that virgin little Justin's trying to jump on his girl. On Justin and Amy's walk home, she explains to him that she wants their first time with each other to be special. However, Justin feels they should just do it and get it over with. That same night he gets sent a couple of links to some shitty porn sites from Timmy, one of the jocks. From then on, he begins his unhealthy addiction of porn and, what Lifetime substituted for masturbation, binge drinking energy drinks.First, can someone please tell me why a sixteen year old boy would watch any kind of promiscuous videos with his door open? And his mom... If she was so concerned for son watching porn, why the hell wouldn't she confront him on the spot? Instead, she rushes to her bedroom and wakes her husband (at 1:09 in the morning) to say their 16-year-old son is looking at porn and asks if they should have a talk with him. This part, I found myself dead from laughing. The father is such a dweeb, he gives such an answer as " About what? Naked women? ". When the mother asks if he talked to Justin, his first reply is " I told him there's more to life than big boobs ". Justin's life then goes on a downward spiral as he's staying up super late on nights before his swim meets, even watching porn on his girlfriend's PDA and drinking other caffeinated beverages during a swim tournament, that he came in fourth place at. He even shows some footage to his much younger brother, Alex, whom soon mimics his brother's porn addiction. The young brother is even lame enough to take a disc burned with footage of pornos labeled " Virgin Vaginas ". --And gotta love the fake Lincoln Park song in the movie too. His mom attempts to completely block porn sites from her sons and eventually even takes away Justin's computer, he still manages to get his fix by going to cafés with internet access and blowing off his girlfriend to hang out with Monica.Once Justin loses all access to the Internet when his mother finally gets a smart idea to restrict him from leaving the house, he goes to Amy's for a study date and tries to get her to give it up, pinning her down, trying to take off her clothes. He creates all hell for himself and his parents as they receive notice that his grades are slipping and he's been suspended from his swim team after an outburst directed at his coach and teammates, banned from using the school computers for hacking into the facility's firewall- all to watch grown women twirl around in their bra and panties. To make matters worse, he starts to buy more shitty Internet porn using his mom's credit cards. (The hell was she thinking leaving her wallet by the family room computer all night anyway?) Justin ditches class to meet up with skanky Monica at her house and discovers she has sick fantasies and realizes she's too experienced for him. When Justin rejects her, she literally scares and rushes him out of her house in a psychotic way. Cue to the scene when she deliberately bashes her head against her bathroom counter. The same afternoon, Justin's parents arrive home and get a call from one of their credit card companies about suspicious activity.. I knew this part wasn't intended to be funny.. Just the entire family argument was so terribly acted, I had to bury my face into my pillow to laugh shamelessly. His parents, after an awkwardly silent dinner session, allow him to go and make amends with Amy. Afterward, Justin practically gets kidnapped by the jocks from school, who believe he's physically assaulted Monica. Guess you can safely guess that girl has major issues with rejection that she had to go tell Dooly and his friends that bullshit lie. They beat him senseless and the movie ends with an bruised up Justin jumping into the school swimming pool, and starts reminiscing good times in his life. A cliffhanger as usual. The funniest line in this movie was " I SAID I WAS LOOKING AT PORNOGRAPHY! ".Thanks a heap, Lifetime.
blondehrtbreakr First of all, I don't know what people were expecting when they sat down and turned on a Lifetime movie named, "Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life". Were you looking for a blockbuster? The title tells you up front, that this will be an after-school-special type of flick. Add in the fact that it is shown on Lifetime Television For Women, and you know it's going to be anti-porn.As a TV movie, it wasn't that bad. No worse than the rest of the movies they play on LMN. It kept me entertained, which was the point. Then again, I love Lifetime movies. Sometimes it's nice to just put your mind in neutral and enjoy a silly or cheesy movie on a lazy afternoon.Go into it with that attitude and you'll probably enjoy it. If you want a thriller or an action flick, look elsewhere (obviously!). This was cute, cheesy, and not a horrible way to spend an hour and a half.5/10
halfburnttoast Well one thing is for sure: to this movie, porn is the most evil thing in the universe. More evil than Hitler.Looking at a single nak.... well actually, they aren't even naked in the photos, so it isn't porn in the first place. But a single look at a scantily clad woman is enough to SERIOUSLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARM YOUR CHILD and HE WILL BECOME A STARK RAVING SEX ADDICTED PSYCHOPATH... AND it will destroy your family too... and he will go on to cause world war 3.... and he will end up causing the human race extinction!!! oooOOOOOooooo... Give me a break.What's funny is the f***ed up hypocrisy with the parents. The parents allow both their sons to play GTA, a game which requires extreme violence to play. Stealing cars, blowing people up, spraying crowds with a minigun, robbing stores, etc... But god forbid they see something NATURAL, such as a woman's figure (sense remember, in the movie, it's not actually porn), they might get an ADDICTION and go insane!!!!! But GTA, nah they can handle that, nothing wrong with it at all. Go kill some more tourists little Timmy, but don't you dare go and do anything natural! And the fact that he's "addicted" to it... Heh, if you can get addicted to that, you might as well be addicted to anything: candy, sports, television, pogo sticks, yodeling, FARMVILLE, whatever.I wish I could laugh at all this, but I know people hold those same viewpoints. It never made any sense to me when I was his age, and it still doesn't as an adult. Now, I'm not encouraging anyone to break the law, but my point is that it's just about as ass backwards and stupid as you could get.I also think it's funny how nobody knows how to use computers. At all. No one. I'm surprised the parents weren't beating the keyboard with their head shouting, "DUUUURRRRRRRRR" at that scene with the popups. Honestly, my grandmother knows how to use computers better. This whole movie is a joke. In fact, I think I'm going to go hit my head with a brick for a while to try and dislodge the stupid implanted by this movie..
DrWillHatch There are numerous(far, far too many to count) films, pieces of literature, art, music or otherwise, that are mediocre. They are pieces with admirable qualities balanced out by bad ones. The job of a film critic is to analyze the worth of the film through whatever proscription's are appropriate. As a lover of film, I am sadly kind to many to many films that I would call mediocre, and reserve my most scathing criticisms for those films which are either truly awful , or those with something that I deem has no redeeming value. Cyber Seduction:His Secret Life is an all around failure from what it set out to achieve(at least from what I think they were trying to achieve), and I am so glad that they did. This is one of the funniest, most laugh a minute films I've ever had the pleasure to watch. Seriously, it's like the director watched a Monty Python marathon for inspiration before making the film. For those who don't know, the film concerns the trend of pornography addiction among teenagers. I'm not sure of the actually studies done, but this film is comparable to "Reefer Madness" in its exaggeration of the "problem"(though much funnier). Jeremy Sumpter is a teen who has a bright future ahead of him. He is a talented competitive swimmer, has a "proper" girlfriend, and is a good example to his younger brother. Through some sort of plot contrivance(I haven't seen it since it came out- minor details aside, it left a big an impression on me), he discovers the joys of stimulation, which eventually leads to his, and several others lives ruined in the process. A lot of the humor comes through sheer absurdity. First of all, the porn he discovers couldn't be more tame(later on, in one of the funniest moments of the movie, his swim mates receive pda images of people wearing latex, which we are supposed to interpret to be bondage porn). It is mostly a bunch of plain looking women dancing around unsexily in bras and panties. Secondly, you never actually see him masturbate. Actually, it is more likely that he is a zombified addict due of the energy drinks like Red Bull that he excessivly consumes. You might blame his stupidity(he never closes the door) on his mother, who is played by Kelly Lynch with absolute zero knowledge of even the most basic concepts of sexuality. It could be a genetic trait. Eventually his younger brother becomes addicted to pornography as well and he leaves his private disc("Virgin Vaginas") to be easily found in his dresser drawer(which was totally unnecessary, he could of hid it easily from his illiterate mother and doofus father on his PC). Did I mention that he loses all interest in his girlfriend and causes his family to crumble?The film wouldn't be nearly as successful had I not been drawn in by the characters. I have to give credit to the two main actors. I saw this film almost directly after I saw Jermey Sumpter in "Peter Pan", which I loved him in. In this film he is very likable, and portrays the idiotic character with such seriousness and earnestness that you can't help but like hima little . It's not his fault that he was born in such a strange alternate reality where, honestly, red blooded teenage boys lament over the dangers of bondage(which isn't really bondage), and slutty girls try to commit suicide after the first "date". Kelly Lynch is fun to watch, as she plays the entirely overzealous and nonsensical crusader with a straight face, and it adds another level of irony that she apparently has no problem with "doing nudity"(I wouldn't know, I've never seen her in another picture). The whole film plays this way, the characters act so out of proportion with how people in real life act, but with such likability and seriousness that you can't help but laugh. I can't really describe how ridiculous this movie gets without telling you about that the film is bookmarked by two instances of tragedy. The aforementioned scene where a slutty girl Jeremy met off the internet bangs her head on a marble sink after Jeremy realizes he's in over his head, and two instances of him looking like hes committing suicide. Whether it was intentional or not, this film actually managed to be somewhat intelligent in its commentary. Through all the absurdity, I think viewers might get the message that you shouldn't be espousing the dangers of something or someone without first doing the proper research. If you don't, you'll end up looking like a complete fool(like the mother). You might say that nothing tragic would of happened had she just followed her husbands initial advice, and let him do his own carnal explorations(which he should of been doing which he was much younger). I gave this a 9 because it truly made me laugh, the IMDb bottom 100 should be reserved for films with no talent in stimulating anything, except my revile.