Stalked at 17

Bland Lead Performances Derail A Fairly Typical Lifetime Network Presentation
Premiering as a Lifetime network original movie, "Stalked at 17" has all the trappings that you would expect from such a distinction. I can be critical of the Lifetime brand with movies that tend to veer between sensationalized instances based on real life and thrillers of fantastical proportions. While "Stalked at 17" starts out in a rather unassuming manner, it soon drives toward the latter category as any sense of reality evaporates and craziness takes over. It's not necessarily a terrible movie from an entertainment standpoint, but you've undoubtedly seen many comparable features that cover the same ground in a better way.

Before I get into the movie, though, has anyone else noticed that a lot of terrible things happen when you're seventeen on the Lifetime network? Thing's have gotten really rough for our teenage girls! At last count, we've been Dead at 17, Accused at 17, Betrayed at 17, and a Fugitive at 17! See, there are might be worse things than being...

Important Issues Raised in This Lifetime Drama
A typical Lifetime Channel movie, Stalked at 17, directed by Doug Campbell (Accused at 17, Walking the Halls), paints an interesting picture of teenage issues in American society today.

Angela (Taylor Spreitler) is a bright high school student. As most girls her age tend to do, she and her best friend Tenaya (Shavon Kirksey) meet Curt (Patrick Alan Davis) and Chad (Chuck Hittinger) while at school one day - although Curt and Chad are actually college students. Chad exhibits the 1-dimensional male creepiness of most Lifetime Movie Antagonists, and he and Angela begin a short romance.

Manipulating Angela with a childhood sob story (which, no surprise, we later find out is mostly made up), Chad manages to get into the young girl's pants, impregnating her in the process - on purpose.

Upon finding out, Angela and Tenaya are pretty distraught (well, especially Angela!), the two girls sitting in a bedroom with a multitude of home pregnancy tests - just to...

Worst acting EVER!!!
The only actors that showed any real emotion during the movie was the seventeen year old's parents.

The only thing that I could think of as to how the other actors got their parts was knowing someone in the movie business.

You would be terrified if someone pointed a gun at you and kidnapped you and your child not knowing what was going to happen next.

It might have been a better movie if the two leading characters had different actors to play them to show SOME kind of emotion.

I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. Keep your money in your pocket or use it to buy something else.

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