Harper Valley PTA is a 1978 comedy movie starring Barbara Eden. The movie was inspired by the country music song of the same title written by Tom T. Hall. In 1981 it was adapted into a television series, with Barbara Eden reprising her role. Stella Johnson is a beautiful widowed single mother who lives in the town of Harper Valley, Ohio, and sells cosmetics door-to-door. Her fourteen year old daughter is named Dee . Dee brings her mother a letter from the school's Parent Teacher Association board, which was led by the pompous and snobbish Flora Simpson Reilly . The letter denounces her for... her not following the societal mores of the day and community and further stating that if she didn't change her ways more to their liking, Dee would be punished for her mother's sins by being expelled from school. Infuriated by the board's supposed superiority and their glaring hypocrisy, Stella storms to the PTA meeting and proceeds to tell most of the PTA members off by exposing their hidden skeletons for the town to see.
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| Release date: | 1978 |
| Directed by: | Richard C. Bennett |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Adapted from: | Harper Valley PTA |
| Genre: | Comedy |