Redundant and unnecessary.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Blistering performances.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

For the first time, I agree with the current rating of which I gave a 7 mainly because of the lead actor(Chuck Hittinger) in the role of Chad. I felt despite the poor casting of Jamie Luner & Linda Purl, two of the finest actresses in Hollywood, Hittinger's performance "saved" what otherwise is weak writing and casting, especially Taylor Spreitler. Hittinger, one of the best young actors, as with "Bad Tutor", again was worth watching. His acting skills shine through and was well cast in the role, the type of which he's best suited. I always enjoy watching his movies, most of which tend to be full of suspense and thrilling! He is very capable of "carrying" any movie as a lead!!

"Inspired by true events," this story begins with a young mother being "Stalked at 17" by a hooded young man. He pulls a gun on her and orders Taylor Spreitler (as Angela Curson) to get the baby and go somewhere… One year earlier, we flashback to how the stalker met the stalked. Academically very smart, Ms. Spreitler is touring her prospective college. There, she meets the young man from the opening teaser. Without the gun and hood, Chuck Hittinger (as Chad Bruning) looks cute and charming. Invited to his party, Spreitler is quickly carrying Mr. Hittinger's baby...While effectively engaging the audience, the opening gives away most of the story. This is a common way for TV Movies to grab your attention and help you decide to watch their movie. It can be intriguing, but not when the plot falls into place so quickly. An hour is spent going through what we pretty much know is going to happen. A mysterious bit of background involving imprisoned Jamie Luner (as Toni Marshall) is likewise easy to predict. Although the "adopted" Hittinger and Spreitler have similar features, they are not brother and sister. That would be too complicated.*** Stalked at 17 (2012-10-27) Doug Campbell ~ Taylor Spreitler, Chuck Hittinger, Linda Purl, Amy Pietz

Taylor Spreitler, as Angela Curson, is a high school girl of seventeen and is pregnant. But that's not where the problem lies. A few words of admonishment from her parents -- nice performance from Amy Pietz as the concerned mother -- and the middle-class Curson family happily sets about buying baby doo-dads and fixing up the spare room for a nursery, little pink figures in the wall paper and whatnot. Oh, the family presumably still wishes that their little girl hadn't gotten knocked up at sixteen, but let's put that behind us. Everything is hunky-dory.Except for one thing. The young college student, Chuck Hittinger as Chad Bruning, the father-to-be. The writers have no intention of challenging the viewer. They spill the beans about who's right and who's wrong right off the bat with those names. Now, I ask you, the experienced viewer, the perspicacious assessor, who is good and who is bad -- someone named "Angela Curson" or someone named "Chad Bruning"?Actually Hittinger looks a little like the late Patrick Swayze, and he's all enthusiastic about the pregnancy. Apparently a nice young man, he tries to pressure Spreitler into marrying him so they can live together happily. But by this time the young girl and her family have rethought things. Hittinger is just not their type. So they tell him to bug off. Little did they know that tragedy lay just around the corner.Hittinger had been adopted as a somewhat wayward child by the morally upright Linda Purl. Hittinger's real mother had been a junkie and had wound up in the Crowbar Hotel, but she'd been Purl's housekeeper and, out of kindness, Purl accepted the orphaned Hittinger. (I hope you're following all this.) Now the real mother shows up and begs Purl for her old job back. She's clean and ready. Purl rudely throws her out for no discernible reason.Hittinger's miscreant mother is played by Jamie Luner. She's the most impressive performer in the movie. Deglamorized to the point of homeliness, she exudes pathos and passion. The scene in which Luner politely begs Purl for her old job, while Purl folds her arms across her chest and frowns down at this wreck of a woman may be the only moving moment in the entire story.I think the rest is predictable enough not to need too much description. Hittinger becomes obsessed with "his" child. His importunings become more obvious and more demanding. There is a fist fight with Spreitler's father in a parking lot. Her father is a middle-aged white collar professional but has little trouble decking a larger and younger college student. Finally, with the help of his real mother, Hittinger kidnaps Spreitler and the baby. Tragedy ensues.It's a terrible movie. I watched it fascinated, to see how low it would stoop, how fantastic the plot had to become, to end the way it did. Poor Taylor Spreitler. She's a cute blond but cannot act. And when she's supposed to be pregnant, waddling around wearing that prosthesis under her jersey, the sight is preposterous.The movie embodies two not entirely unpleasant fantasies: (1) Being made a victim so everyone is on your side, and (2) being so desirable that a man would be willing to kill for you. Watch it if you're really curious about this genre.

This is not going to win any awards, but it passes time. The girl, played by Taylor somebody, is not a good actress, but seems to have improved some since her time on Days of our lives as Mia, a pregnant teen who was with a boy named Chad. That's strange, since she plays a pregnant teen here and the father's name is...Chad. Jamie Luner is totally wasted in this movie. She doesn't get a chance to do anything, and I'm used to her having the lead in TV movies. She was pretty much a zombie here. I didn't like how the girl seemed to be leading Chad on at points. You either don't want him around or you do. If you don't, stop letting him talk you into listening to him and following him places, just don't bother with him if he shows up at your school. What does she think following him around the corner for a little talk is going to do? Honestly, the girl just didn't seem upset at Chad in a realistic way, it was like she was only being slightly annoyed.