A Killer Among Friends
A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.
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- Cast:
- Patty Duke , Margaret Welsh , Tiffani Thiessen , David Cubitt , Loretta Swit , Ben Bass , Chad Todhunter
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People are voting emotionally.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Being a young female, I think back to my high school days and it's horrifying to think that a teenager could be murdered by people she loves and trusts and that the victims own mother could let a killer move into the house without knowing it. I would say this movie is about 90 percent accurate. Many of the things in the movie happened in real life, except that the real Ellen was not thrown out of the house by Patty Dukes character. This was a shocking movie because the mother defended and loved her daughters killers but also because Jenny did nothing wrong. Jenny was very innocent; she didn't know how disturbed her "friends" were and I don't believe the real girl slept with their boyfriends;the real Carla and Ellen were just upset and jealous because things in lives didn't work out for them.Carla and Ellen made bad choices and blamed Jenny because her life was going great; she was pretty, popular, and about to go off to college,while Ellen had a baby she couldn't support and later we find that Carla used drugs.Both Tiffany Theissen and Patty Duke do a wonderful job in this very sad movie. Patty Dukes performance as a heart broken mother is tear jerking and the murder scene is heart wrenching. I love the last scene where Patty Duke says," We love you Jenny Sleep with the angles" It was a beautiful way to end the movie.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen never fails to make an excellent TV movie and A Killer Amongst Friends is proof that the pretty blue eyed brunette can act superbly as Jenny Monroe,the attractive,and adored teenage girl who is envied by her friends,particularly Ellen Holloway played by Margaret Welsh who nailed the performance as a conniving and deceitful teenager whose jealousy leads her to brutally murder her best friend.Holloway only becomes more hated throughout the plot when she fools Jenny's heartbroken mother Jean (Patty Duke) into believing that someone else killed her daughter,leading her on a wild goose chase for a killer who doesn't exist.Patty Duke's performance was so captivating that you can feel her pain and her grief from the time she was told her daughter had been murdered,to when she discovers the horrible truth about the killer. A gripping,emotional,and brilliant movie that doesn't leave you disappointed.
Another made-for-TV movie inspired by true events, this movie is rerun on lifetime quite often. It's scary to contemplate a person treating another human being like the girls in this film. This movie is better than most "women in jeopardy, inspired by the story of" television flicks of the late 80s/early 90s. Patty Duke is excellent as bereaved mother and Loretta Swit (Hot Lips from M*A*S*H) lends solid support as the investigating detective who tries to keep Duke's character from jeopardizing the case. A very sad disturbing film.
This one of the most disturbing TV Movies I have ever watched. Ellen is a completely disturbing psychopath and you might get scared to watch her. When the truth comes out about Jenny's murder, you aren't going to be shocked about who did it (you know from the second it happens), but you will be shocked about how it was done. A horrible scene to watch was Jenny's death scene. It was a shame because this girl (Jenny) did nothing wrong and these girls' reasons for killing her were complete misunderstandings about what they thought they saw.