chrisblossom09
Elizabeth Berkeley played a cool chick for a teacher. The one flaw is that it ended too soon. What we should have seen was whether Josh Gaines eventually makes it to school or ends up in juvenile hall and black- balled. However, most importantly of all, as Ken Bowden says, if you put a cool, attractive chick and Josh Gaines in front of a jury, "they're gonna look stupid. They know it". Even though it was Rochester and not Blue Bay, I still opine Ken Bowden would have done a far better job compared to the attorney hired. Anyone who watched Wild Things would see through Josh Gaines. In addition, the school administrators should have kept Wild Things in mind as well as Mary Kay Letourneau. If they did and they had half a brain, they would have seen straight through Josh Gaines' statement.
DylanEF1996
This movie all and all is not bad. But most of the time you can guess what will happen. One thing that really caught my attention is that some of the evidence that was/wasn't used. For one the phone call. Why didn't she mention it? He during the call admits what he dis and police could trace the call or listen to recorded conversations. Another things is that if someone really tried an questioned this boy they could get the story out of him. At times this story wasn't realistic but at other times it was. But the actors were great. I really felt bad and concerned when I was suppost to be.In the end I give it a 6/10 if you got free time see it if not then don't.
caa821
There are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick's abundance of clichés throughout -- and I agree completely, both with regard to the characters AND the dialog.I'd read about Elizabeth Berkly's awful performance in the equally-awful "Showgirls," which I've never seen - and her performance here, while not awful, is barely up to the standards of Lifetime's worse fare. There was not a hint of depth to her character, but then there probably shouldn't have been. If so, it would have placed the film completely out-of-balance, since there wasn't a hint of depth or charisma - not a trace - in any one character, performer, or portrayal.The principal's handling of Liz's initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable. Her husband's initial reaction and advice were likewise (Forrest Gump, attacking Jenny's boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic, intelligent action, and, hell, he was mentally-challenged).The smarmy, unctuous lawyer (excuse the redundancy) father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance: he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time, no mean feat. Her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd, also not unknown in the profession.Finally (and frankly, I rather enjoyed this part), the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs, that you'd rather depend upon Barney Fife, without Andy, to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community. I know that most real-like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness, intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the "Law and Order" series', and the like -- but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on "Lifetime."Finally, I found a kind of "story within a story" fascination with Josh's concoction of his being the "victim" of his teacher. This scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story. This was something of an achievement, like going from "F" to "F-minus."This whole lame situation should have been resolved - in real life - in about 15 minutes, following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities, with husband involved. But then that would have precluded the contrived drama following, and left an hour's blank film in the camera. But the writer(s) here, proved with their ending, they could do even worse. When the situation was finally "resolved" and "righted," this was accomplished in all of about 45 seconds, with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any "real world" context for the perpetrator and his parents, or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption.This one's a 2* presentation; the second "*" because it does have some mild "fascination."
sallygub
This movie was OK but I think it took too long. I saw it for the first time today and it didn't make much sense. All I know is there was an A-Student that helped the teacher in trial. The boy "wanted" the teacher and it was very inappropiate. It was too boring for me and I switched to another channel. When I went back to the channel, the teacher was pregnant! Through the whole movie, I said to myself, "Hey ... I know that person! Oh, yeah, she was from Showgirls!" Well, that's all I have to say about the movie. I guess you have to see it yourself!
