I'm trying to think of all the Lifetime movies that are geared towards and based on teens. I really like them...Help add to my list please ?
Odd Girl Out
She's Too Young
Mom at Sixteen
Mom, Dad and Her
Girl, Positive
Too Young to Marry
A Champion's Fight/Shattered Hearts
Sorority Wars
The Tenth Circle
Speak
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal
Fat Like Me
Cyber Seduction with Jeremy Sumpton
Oh what marvelous things but they are, they are, they are giving me the creeps.
Perfect Body
Odd Girl Out is the most realistic and honest depiction of how Bad bullying gets that I've seen in any teen fiction.
"It's not about money.... It's about sending a Message..... Everything Burns!!!"
"Secret Cutting",also known as "Painful Secrets"
There's something wrong with Esther.
I loved No One Would Tell with the oldest girl from Full House.
You listen, bitch. You threaten my son, you threaten me.
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-Augusta,Gone Excellent Film
-She's Too Young
-Gracie's Choice
-Christie's Revenge
-Death Of A Cheerleader
-Fifteen And Pregnant
-Hurt(2003):About three teens who meet at a party- who all come from broken homes.Excellent Film!!
-Street(2010)Takes you on a journey with "Lexi" as she seeks to escape her overbearing mother.About Street Kids.However this movie is not out yet,it is in production however it looks really good!!
-Mini's First Time
-My Daughter's Secret
-New Best Friend(2002)
-Natalee Holloway(based on a true story..Very good movie)
-No One Would Tell (Starring Candace Cameron Bure)
-Normal Adolescent Behavior
-Secret Cutting (2000)
-Perfect Body (1997)
-Between Truth and Lies (2006)A psychiatrist tries to protect her daughter from an obsessive psychopath.
-She Fought Alone
-Student Seduction (2003)
-A Teacher's Crime (2008)
-Mean Creek
-Thirteen (2003)
-White Oleander
-The Pregnancy Pact (2010)
-Elephant (a movie about a high school shooting) an independent film
-The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) an independent film
-Homeroom (2002) an independent film
-Homeless To Harvard
-Speak
Some of these movies mentioned in this thread were originally made for NBC back in the 90's. Lifetime obtained the airing rights to a lot of them.
NBC, ABC and CBS during the 90's made some good movies involving teen issues. In recent years Lifetime has picked up the torch. Some of teen related movies Lifetime has made have been bad. Cyber Seduction was pretty awful.
I thought Odd Girl Out, To Be Fat Like Me, Natalee Holloway, Gracie's Choice, Homeless to Harvard and Augusta, Gone have been the best ones so far.
Lifetime get bashed on a lot but I think Lifetime puts more of a decent effort into their movies and they cover some gritty issues. The cable network that makes awful movies is the Hallmark Channel. Everything on the Hallmark Channel is syrupy.
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Hallmark can be more faulted than Lifetime sometimes, though.
Great lifetime movies for teens besides this one: "Queen Sized", "Reviving Ophelia", "Speak".
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I will have to check them out.
shareI think Little Girls in Pretty Boxes was pretty good. It wasn't bullying, but the pressure to be beautiful and tiny and having the "perfect body" in athletics.
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