When it comes to all those Made-for-TV movies, some are really good, others not so bad, some you can take or leave and some that are just plain awful! Mistress falls into that last one.
Why Victoria Principal would agree to star in this is beyond me, maybe she felt sorry for the (crummy) writer, and thought being a TV star might be a help? Not even Barbra Streisand or some other famous name could help this!
The whole idea that a mediocre "actress/singer/dancer/whatever" (as her character, Rae phrases it) who was obviously getting nowhere professionally, would be a longtime mistress to a wealthy married, man and NOT demand some financial security is just plain ridiculous! She didn't want to cheapen their relationship??? Newsflash: being mistress to a married man with children hardly gives things a moral ground.
She goes on like this for years, not making demands, just assuming one of these days he'll get around to a divorce (sell this gal the Brooklyn Bridge) and then BOOM!! He croaks while they're having fun in the sheets. (Talk about coming and going!) Of course, he left her nothing in his will (did she really think he would???) and of course, she can't even attend his funeral (what would Wifey think) and of course she ends up down and out and not knowing what's next.
A trip home's no good, as her mother lives in some LaLa Land, where her baby girl's going to be a star! There's an ex-boyfriend who's never forgotten her, who lives in a fantasyland of his own (must be something in the local well) and assumes she's famous (so how come no one's heard of her?), then gets a rude awakening when he learns of her mistress past and dumps her.
In between all this, she gets a job but goofs it up, auditions for acting/singing roles but goofs them up too, picks up (not one but) two guys in a bar and takes them home, sleeps with one, and then goes ballistic when he pays her for her services!! Well, gee, she just met the guys, takes them home cavorts in the pool with one while the other watches, then sleeps with the guy (maybe the other watched that, too?), and is all offended because he thought she was a working girl? She should have thanked him; at least she's good at something!
In the end, she becomes the mistress of another married man, only this time she wises up and makes sure she gets something out of the deal.
The End. (Thank you God!)
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