Terror in the Family is a 1996 American television film directed by Gregory Goodell and starring Joanna Kerns, Dan Lauria, Andrew Kavovit, Adam Hendershott, Nan Martin, Beau Billingslea, Ryan Christopher Mouritsen, Kathleen Wilhoite, and Hilary Swank.

He is distant, preferring his sideline of manufacturing wooden bowls to spending time with Cynthia, who drinks too much and has turned to Deena for companionship.

The next day Todd demonstrates to Cynthia how effective his approach is, informing her that Deena went to class, and that he's obtained all her missing assignments and done some research about Garret.

When Todd insists on seeing Deena's supposedly completed homework when she gets home, she erupts violently and slams her bedroom door on his hand, breaking his fingers.

Deena recklessly climbs the local radio tower, saying she can't go back home, but Garret convinces her to run away to California with him when the weather is warmer for hitchhiking.

When they find marijuana and tests with failing grades in her bedroom, Todd grounds her, telling her he is removing her stereo and phone and forbidding her from seeing Garret again.

Todd initially refuses until Deena has completed her missing schoolwork, but relents when Cynthia starts to open a bottle of wine.

When Deena tells her she's not supposed to be there, she drunkenly drops the pizza, calling her ungrateful, claiming she is just like Judith, who she blames for leaving her with the responsibility of caring for their mother.

Cynthia denies it, stating that a bad mother couldn't have terrific kids, and that Deena was a wonderful child until she met Garret.

She tries to get him to return to bed to hide his drinking problem, but he shoves her into the wall, hard enough to break the glass in a family photo.

En route by bus to therapy, Garret tells Deena that his previous girlfriend had pursued him, and he'd only had sex with her to make sure the relationship was still over.

Garret is at Deena's hearing, when the judge excuses any jail time, but still puts her on a year's probation with community service and anger management classes.

He expects her to go to California with him, and when she tells him that things have changed, that Cynthia is in a treatment program and that her father and brother need her help, he reacts angrily to her rejection and nearly slaps her before stalking off.