Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

wes-connors Sexy blonde high school senior Kirsten Prout (as Catherine "Cat" Hardy) seems to have everything a young woman could want. Besides being drop-dead gorgeous, she's smart enough to be re-elected student council president and is planning on attending an Ivy League college. She lives in an immaculately furnished Los Angeles mansion with her fantastically wealthy single mom Daryl Hannah (as Susan Hardy). Rounding out Ms. Prout's perfect life is best girlfriend Chloe Bridges (as Emily Hargrove) and cuddly kissing partner Brandon Smith (as Daniel). As if all this wasn't enough, nobody wiggles around a pair of shorts like Prout. Nobody. Naturally, her wonderful world comes crashing down. The avenue for evil is social media and the offending cast member is revealed by re-titling this TV Movie "Mother" for home video release. The attempts to drive "Social Nightmare" into most awful rating territory fail as this one amuses by being insanely predictable.**** Social Nightmare (8/31/13) Mark Quod ~ Kirsten Prout, Daryl Hannah, Chloe Bridges, Brandon Smith

U n The idea that someone could use your over shared personal data in nefarious ways is one that when presented well, can create a nail biting, edge of your seat experience with a poignant and current cultural message.This movie took that premise and confused it by mashing together parts from a bunch of different genres to create a movie without any identity.**SPOILERS IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH** It started out well. The characters were familiar, realistic and easy to identify with. Then as the star's life went downhill the realism followed suit. The initial reaction of her BFF was refusal to accept she might not be responsible...?!? Huh?!? This A+, very popular student, elected class president and given a full scholarship to a good college suddenly started doing really nasty things to everyone around her on the internet when she had everything to lose and nothing to gain and everyone's first reaction was to choose not to believe her?!? WTF?!? The final straw was the girlfriend not remembering that it would have been IMPOSSIBLE for the main character to take the photos FROM INSIDE THE CUPBOARD WITH HER BOYFRIEND!?! Even if, suspending disbelief as much as I could, people around her started to think she'd gone off the rails due to stress, this possibility wasn't even hinted at in the movie. As the evidence mounted up the only remaining suspect became so obvious that it irked me further the characters couldn't see it. **END OF SPOILERS**With a better script this could have been an A grade movie with the same budget rather than a TV special.I was very disappointed by this movie which sucked me in with it's opening but if you've got a spare 90 minutes and are very good at suspending your disbelief, it'll pass the time.

Lorace Dem This film wastes a potentially interesting subject (an abusive mother who intentionally sabotages and destroys the life of her daughter and friends) by falling into lifetime movie clichés. It was actually disgusting to see all of the shallow, unbelievable and lazy plot points that come up, for instance someone emails a blurry picture of a girl drinking a wine cooler (but it could be a bottle of lemonade for all we know) to admissions at Yale, and they not only open the email and read it, but they revoke a student's admission as a result? It's so bad, though maybe there was some amusement in seeing what actors agreed to slum it for this production; such Rachel True's role as a (vice principal? teacher? counselor?--apparently all three) which she didn't even bother to phone in, and it's always fun seeing Tuvok from star trek voyager. But not only was the depiction of events unbelievable and impossible, so was the end scene ultimately infuriating. Her daughter tells her she's not responsible for leaking naked pictures of her daughter online, drugging her, physically assaulting people and slandering, defaming dozens of students at her daughters school, and she replies that "I know, that's what my therapists told me too, it's just a chemical imbalance." When no, it isn't; you're a criminal and should be in jail, you don't have a right to abuse your daughter or other young people. This kind of abuse is a deep seated pattern that you do need to take responsibility for in order to change. No qualified therapist or mental institution would say "it's not your fault" after all of that. I hate lifetime!

LAlawMedMBA This film could have tackled a contemporary issue: The problems of hacked internet accounts and social media. Instead, the most innocent and least likely suspect erupted as the villain--a patently ridiculous ploy used by an utterly incompetent mystery writer. The only clue was the use of psychopharmaceuticals, which are known to be laden with side effects and to vegetate minds. Another horrendous failing was that individuals who appeared to be the culprits, some of whom were admitted to top Ivy League schools, proved instead to be moronic, as did school administrators. Rather than believing that an AP student, elected class president, was innocent, and that she was the victim of hacking, everyone unanimously despised, distrusted, and humiliated her, including her closest friend. Such a social scenario might happen if everyone were developmentally handicapped, but not in any real-world setting.