Accused at 17 (2009)

I wanted to but couldn't!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

4/25/13 This movie was based on a true story. Some teenage girls actually did take another girl out and ended up killing her. The movie is a takeoff from the true story. Two girls, jealous of the dead girl because of her physical attractiveness and her grades and her boyfriend, and etc. did kill her. The first part is right if I remember. One of the murderers did seduce the dead girl's boyfriend but the murderers actually just invited the dead girl to a party and took her out in the desert in California and killed her. They are both in prison for life, now, I think. The acting is all right although I don't know the name of the actor who plays the mother of the accused. I think Robert Moses, the father of the murderer in the movie, is a very good actor. I've seen this movie twice.Jean

If horrible lifetime movies are a go-to on a sick day, please don't miss this one! It is standard lifetime crap, but very entertaining nonetheless. If you watch this with others you will get a great peanut gallery going--there are just too many things to laugh about. The dialogue is corny, the plot is unrealistic (I mean really, who would kill someone for chucking a rock at them?), and the acting is pretty over the top. Despite all of this, you will find yourself laughing at the ridiculousness that seeps out of every scene.What I love most about this movie is Fallyn--the girl looks EXACTLY like Val from "Brink". It is hard to take her seriously when all you can think about is her skating for "x-blades" and getting a milkshake thrown in her face.

Accused At 17 is a movie that I thought was going to be similar to a teen lifetime movie,it was not.It had a potentially great story line, but the acting in the movie was horrible, I didn't believe the actors at all, their emotions unbelievable and unconvincing. The entire story line was great! except I don't believe that Two Mothers (Fallons' and Sarahs') would ever do what they did in real life, Yes I know this is a movie and it's not "Real" But it's a movie that was made to try and make teenagers think twice about they're actions and the outcome of doing something wrong, which means you would want to make the movie as realistic as possible (Like lifetime movies)and with what the parents did, or rather Didn't do I think makes this movie unrealistic in a way. Whoever the Director is needs to seriously consider finding another career, He or She Put effects and different Odd things in this movie to help give the right effect of the particular scene, but it backfired and made the scene look amateur and cheaply made. Also the sound was horrible in this movie You could majorly tell that they had pre-recorded there voices and added them in.I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE TO ANYONE.

Accused at 17 is a story of three high school girls and how their lives intertwine when one of them decides to take revenge on a fourth girl (Dory, played by Lindsay Taylor). The underlying idea and theme are sound, unfortunately the movie is undermined by a weak plot, some marginal acting and lack of extensive character development. This could be a powerful film in Hollywood mode, and it certainly evokes a lot of emotions about family relationships, loyalties and friendships. But in many ways the plot gets too far-fetched with Bianca's mom doing the police work rather than the police themselves. When the film ends, Bianca and her mom seem happy, but where is the grief that two young girls have died, and one of the girls is Bianca's best friend Sarah.The plot is straightforward enough. Bianca (well played by Nicole Anderson)is a typical 17 year old, doing well at school, experimenting with partying and has a steady boyfriend. But when she discovers that her boyfriend cheated on her with another girl at a party, her "best friend" Fallyn decides they should get revenge on that girl by driving her out to a remote canyon, humiliating her and leaving her there to walk back alone. This act in itself could be considered felony kidnapping, with Fallyn as the mastermind and Sarah as the accomplice. Bianca, who arrives in her own car confronts Dory, but then leaves. She is unaware that a scuffle then ensues between Dory and Fallyn, and ends with an enraged Fallyn killing Dory by smashing a rock into her head. This is perhaps the most powerful part of the movie, as teenage girls often conflict but its not often they kill each other. While Sarah wants to do the right thing by calling 911 and we at least see her goodness, the evil Fallyn is only concerned with hiding the body and keeping herself out of trouble. Thus the players are cast with Fallyn becoming the villain. When the police start to investigate, Fallyn decides that the only way to keep herself out of legal trouble is to frame Bianca for the crime. Sarah, who is under Fallyn's control, goes along initially. But later she realizes who her real friend is and she defies Fallyn. The movie was spoiled somewhat by the sketchy police investigation and thin alibis cast by the two girls who were there when Dory died. Bianca's mom eventually sets a trap and Fallyn falls into it. The subplot of the movie is the relationship between Bianca, her mom and her mom's boyfriend, playing upon the vulnerability of a teenage girl who has to deal with the breakup of her parents marriage. The movie ends somewhat happily, whereas it should not have, it could have communicated much better the magnitude of what happened if they showed Sarah's funeral and Bianca breaking down at the loss of her friend. The truth is for a teenage girl, friends are everything and to lose your best friend would be completely devastating.