Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

juneebuggy This was a watchable enough TV movie in a train derailment sort of way. A Lifetime movie with a message. Actually it reminded me of those "after school specials" that were all the rage when I was growing up. Addictive but cheesy, over the top dramatizations of teens making bad decisions and then dealing with the consequences. Here we follow promising track star and mama's girl Jessie Brenner as she heads off to college. Trying to fit in and be one of the cool kids she soon starts partying with her dorm-mate and before long slides into binge drinking and debauchery while lying to her mother about her constant partying and late hours. Promiscuity, car wrecks, topless internet videos, failing grades and general bad decisions soon follow.Despite being a bit hard to take seriously, I enjoyed Nancy Travis as the Mum and Sara Paxton did a decent enough job as Jessie. Some of the party scenes were pretty hilarious and there were some continuity issues. I also found the ending predictable as Lifetime gives one last desperate attempt to drive the "bad drinking" message home to young and influencable viewers. 4/6/15 *Victoria BC as somewhere college town USA.

evening1 As the parent of a 12th-grade boy I found this movie credible and scary.The plot twists are easy to spot but that didn't bother me much. I knew that pretty Jessie Brenner (Reese Witherspoon-lookalike Sara Paxton) would party too hard, go to bed with users, wind up topless on the Internet, and find her debauched roommate Shanna (Chelsea Hobbs) dead from alcohol. I also foresaw that Jessie's mother, well-played by Nancy Travis, would finally make an embarrassing visit to campus.I think this movie nails the unpleasant conflicts that can erupt between parents and kids nearing adulthood. The elders have good reason to mistrust their children and boy, do the offspring resent them! I wondered whether the party atmosphere as depicted in the film was a little over-the-top, but that may reflect the fact that I am now 57 years old. I liked how Mrs. Brenner finally put her foot down, telling Jessie that if she made any grade under a C she wasn't going to pay the tuition. Excellent! From my current vantage point, it's scary to think of teenagers becoming alcoholic as they room together without supervision. Yet I must have faith that many undergrads realize they're in college for a reason.I watched this Lifetime movie with my 11-year-old son and it gave us an opportunity to look up on the Internet the penalties for being caught with a forged ID. (He wasn't thrilled about the discussion.) That research in itself was educative. Now, if I can only get my older son to listen while I (try to) explain...

plowerman2 The star of the film is a beautiful blonde who is usually a goodie-two-shoes but is pressured to binge drink by her manipulative best friend. Watching this my own memories of college came back to me and I remembered my former best friend who also pressured me into similarly compromising situations. That being said and without giving away too much I was really pleased by the ending of the movie! It's also nice to think that girls as beautiful as Sara Paxton would actually experience adolescent angst and go for the slightly less attractive guy. The hilarious part of this movie is how it takes a G-Rated approach to such topics as underage drinking, drinking and driving, and public nudity. The result is this kind of clunky accidental comedy. For example, Sara Paxton's character states that she would never expose herself for a "Girls Gone Wild" type video, and you don't believe it but suddenly you KNOW that is exactly what will happen, and you even feel a little guilty for suddenly getting excited!

Nicholas Rhodes The least one can say about this film is that it is artificial and a bit moralistic ! A young lady is sent to university, obviously from a wealthy family and spends all of her money on drinking herself sick. How interesting ! NUmerous passages of the film shown young idiots drinking themselves silly ! Funny thing is, no one is smoking either tobacco or marijuana ! It doesn't ring true. In my experience, all these activities are generally practised concomitantly by students. In addition to this you have a real pain-in-the-neck mother who is wasting the family money on frequent telephone calls to her daughter ! It is absolutely laughable. When I went to university, I had a phone call from my parents about every 2 months, so I do not really understand the carryings-on in this film. Perhaps you need to be a USA student to understand. I found many sequences pretty repetitive and the end most predictable though I actually had forecast Jessie's friend to die whilst falling from the roof during a binge drinking session. In the event, she died a little later at a binge drinking session at a friends house. All in all this is not really very serious, I cannot imagine where these students get all the money from to be able to spend so much on drink so I have doubts about the veracity of the film. Students generally have difficulty paying for their lodging and books and hardly have money to squander away on liquor ! Not a film to be really taken seriously.