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This film started out with a good premise in the story of a nerd who is bullied in high school by the pretentious and mean-spirited cheerleaders. We then meet her ten years later after she is out on her own and away from her domineering and abusive mother. But then, the film takes a strange turn for both the audience and the main character, Vicky Patterson.

Vicky is working at a Big Box outlet store, and she has a deadbeat boyfriend. But at least she is away from her oppressive mom. But she makes the fateful decision to steal the identity of a co-worker at Big Box and return to high school, impersonating a character ten years her junior.

The film struggled to make it credible that in changing from Vicky Patterson to Caitlyn Sparks, she could possibly pull off such a stunt. The character motivation was especially vague. Vicky wasn't attempt to improve herself or even to get a sense of completion with earning a high school degree. We never see her study, and it was difficult to believe she would have passed any of her courses. Rather, she wanted to experience the glory of being the head cheerleader, bag a football star named Liam, and, even more improbably, she wanted to emulate her superficial mom!

As the film progressed, our early sympathetic response to Vicky's character disappeared rapidly. The cheerleaders at Glendale High welcomed her and befriended her. In return, Vicky sets up the head cheerleader, Maddy, for a broken ankle, so that she can take her place. The murders of her greasy boyfriend Darren and the real Caitlyn Sparks follow.

At one point in the film, Heather, one of the young women who is kind to Vicky/Caitlyn, begins to learn the truth about her new friend. With a sigh, Heather exclaims, "No one really knows anyone." Vicky/Caitlyn is an example of someone who really doesn't know herself.

Despite the apparent true story on which the film was based, the situation was never made plausible by the filmmakers. Vicky Patterson was living in a fantasy world, and she was shamed by her overachieving mother. She was also bullied by her high school peers. But her response to those circumstances was not to pull herself up by her bootstraps and try to excel. Rather, it was to revert to the dark side of her nature and become even worse than the people she loathed.

During her senior year of high school, Vicky (Maiara Walsh, Zombieland) had to drop out and over the next decade, she's worked her way to rock bottom. Now, she wants to make her mother proud by stealing a teenager's identity and having the best senior year of her life, even if she has to take out anyone who gets in her way.

Writer Barbara Kymlicka was behind plenty of David DeCoteau films. This movie fits right into his made for TV look and it's directed by Christie Will Wolf.

Great movie! Very suspenseful. We really got to see how Vicky felt deep inside. The only thing is the ending seemed kind of hurried. The gym scene at the end looked like a set whereas the rest of the scenes looked more like a real school. And while Vicky did get her come uppance, her mother only looked mildly annoyed as she had a drink and listened to the news report of her daughter in jail. Maybe this was showing the audience how little maternal instinct she had? Plus, there wasnt any final comment on Vicky other than her being insane in her jail cell. I thought surely there would be a scene with the prison psychiatrist. Very good overall.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty" is a copypasta based on a fan commentary about the popular animated TV series in response to its critics, though it is more often used to mock the pretentious and self-congratulatory manner fans talk about the show.

I love the movie! I loved every single minute of it! This is a film that I highly recommend! However, something I didn't like is that the ending went to fast. Vicky gets arrested by the police, then it cuts to her mom watching news coverage of her daughter's trial and then it cuts to Vicky in jail saying some baloney quote about energy and balls or somethin' like that. It seems like Lifetime likes to rush the endings on these types of movies. And of course, a majorty of these cheerleader movies have happy fairytale endings (which i'm not complaining about). Meanwhile, some of the actors playing the roles of high school students are too old to play 18 year olds but at the same time they look exactly like 18 year old high students. Anyway, my favorite scene was when Vicky opens the trunk door of her car and the camera reveals her former co-worker, the girl she stole the identity from, deceased with her eyes open...kinda creepy and sad since she was planning to return to school but fricking Vicky had to kill her in order to keep her fake identity. Overall, I recommend the movie. You won't be disappointed! P.S: The guy who plays Liam is so hot!