Betrayed At 17 Movie Review

Betrayed At 17

                                                   

Betrayed At 17 is a drama thriller TV movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Christine Conradt and Ken Sanders and directed by Doug Campbell. The major characters of this film are played by Amanda Bauer, Alexandra Paul, Jake Thomas, Andy Fischer-Price, Katie Gill, Paula Trickey and Joe Penny. Betrayed At 17 gives a message to the immature teens, like what we saw in the movie Girl Fight.

The movie Betrayed At 17 is about a teen girl, who’s sex tape has been released by one of her classmate and the consequences leads to her death. Then her mother and brother tries to find the one who is guilty for this and then tries to bring that person to justice.

A scene from the movie Betrayed at 17

Plot:

Lexi is a shy teen girl who lives with her mother. Her father has passed away and her brother is living with his friends after her mother has kicked him out of the house for his drug problems. Lexi has a very good relation with her mother and brother. In school, she is regularly bullied by a girl named Carleigh.

One day, Greg, a popular guy and football player from Lexi’s school asks Lexi out for a dinner and Lexi agrees. Greg used to date Carleigh, so this make Carleigh jealous. After the date, Lexi and Greg go to Greg’s home and there they have sex. But what Lexi didn’t know was, Greg is taping their session, although he had no intention to circulate it.

Next morning, Greg shows a part of that video to his friend, who is currently dating Carleigh. Then his friend tells about this tape to Carleigh, who then goes to boy’s room and sends the video to other students from Greg’s phone without telling him.

At a party on that night, Greg and Lexi get to know about the spreading of that video. After knowing Greg has taped her and the tape is out now, Lexi runs out from the party in shame and then gets killed by getting hit by a car.

All the evidences put Greg as the only suspect. The police tell Lexi’s mother that as Lexi was 17, so according to the law, they cannot charge Greg with strong accusation. But Greg gets expelled from his school. Although he says Carleigh has done is, but no one can prove her involvement so she stays innocent by law. At one time, Greg accuses her in the school, but she lies in front of everyone.

Lexi’s death brings her mother and brother close again and they try to find who is responsible for it. Lexi’I brother beat Greg, but Greg swears that although he has recorded it, he has not sent the video to anyone.

Greg then finds a way to prove that Carleigh has done it. He manages to record his conversation with Carleigh where she says she has done it out of her jealousy for Lexi. But his mistake was, after Carleigh’s confession, he shows the recorder to her.

Carleigh gets mad to get the record and at one point, she kills Greg. Then she frames Lexi’s brother for the murder and the police arrest him.

Now, both of Lexi’s and Greg’s mothers get determined to find a way to get the killer of their children, to prove her involvements and to bring her to justice.

My review about the movie Betrayed At 17:

Although Betrayed At 17 was not a perfect pleasure to watch, but still it seemed as a good movie, specially considering its plot.

The plot of Betrayed At 17 is very good and realistic. It also gives a strong message to the young people about what the consequences of their action may lead to. The screenplay and the direction are also good.

I didn’t like the acting of Amanda Bauer, who is one of the leading characters of Betrayed At 17. Other than that, the acting of almost everyone else seemed natural and fluent.  The dialogues and makeups are also good in this movie.

At most of the parts of Betrayed At 17  the lighting and the camera effects didn’t seem proper at all. To me, this was the biggest flaw of the movie. Sometimes, the lighting seemed really poor, much like a B grade movie. This thing has ruined my total viewing experience of Betrayed At 17. This is the only issue for which I couldn’t completely like this movie, although everything else was pretty good.

Although the plot circulates around a sex tape, but Betrayed At 17 does not contain any direct nudity, so its totally safe to watch this movie with kids.

So, finally, Betrayed At 17 has an excellent plot, good acting and good screenplay. It could be a perfect movie if only the lightings and the camera effects were better. Still I enjoyed watching this movie. This movie also has a good IMDB rating of 5.0/10 while I’m writing this review. I’d recommend watching Betrayed At 17 to all drama movie lovers. But if you are fan of all genres of movies (like me), I don’t know how much you will enjoy watching this one (although I liked it).

To know more:

In some websites, I’ve seen that the plot of Betrayed At 17 is based on some true stories. You can search on google to know more about those stories.

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