Harper Valley PTA (1978)

An attractive fun loving woman (Barbara Eden) receives a note from the local PTA stating that they find her behavior and her dress undesirable and that she is not a fit mother. Furious, she walks into the next PTA meeting and denounces the hypocrisy of the PTA board and the town itself. But it doesn't end there! Based on the 1968 hit country song sung by Jeannie C. Reilly and directed by Richard Bennett (credited) and Ralph Senensky. The song's story is played out in the movie's first 20 minutes and from then on, it's stuff invented for the movie. This is drive in fodder and that's where the movie did most of its business. It did well enough for a TV series (with Eden recreating her film role) to air in 1981 but it lasted only one season. As to the film itself, it's mildly amusing as Eden gets revenge on the townspeople in various ways but it's essentially a one joke act that can't sustain itself for 90 minutes. With Nanette Fabray, Ronny Cox, Louis Nye, Audrey Christie and Ron Masak.