She Said No

I watched this film for the first time a year ago. I was lucky to acquire this from a good friend of mine who had it! It was an ok movie. A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA’s office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and slander leaving her feeling raped again.

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Baby Snatcher

Veronica Hamel and Nancy McKeon are truly great actresses and their films never get old, especially Baby Snatcher. A woman  (Nancy McKeon) is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman’s horror she finds out that it’s herself who is the main suspect.

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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

A Cry for Help is another one of my all time favourite Lifetime Movies that is quite rare to find the whole film. Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.

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Mom At Sixteen

Mom at Sixteen is about pregnant 16-year-old Jacey, whose well-meaning mother, after finding out she is pregnant, forces her to keep the birth a secret and both decided to give him on adoption when he is born.

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But the day the social services worker arrives to take him to his adoptive parents Jacey decides to keep him and she agrees that her mom will raise the baby as her own. A guidance counselor discovers Jacey’s secret and tries to get her to enroll in a program for pregnant and parenting teens.

Homeless to Harvard

I have seen Homeless to Harvard so many times and never gets boring. It is Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

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One Woman’s Courage

There is no other actress that does it like Patty Duke! She is my absolute favourite, in this film her husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps her to the hospital but does not want to be a witness in court because of Craig, thinking that he would lose his reputation.

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Only when the mother of the girl appeals to her, Grace puts herself in contact with Lt. Lawson from the police department. During the trial Grace identifies Bremer as the thug but at the same time she is being asked questions about her private life. When in the end Bremer is set free, he is out to chase Grace.

If Someone Had Known

Katie (Kellie Martin) marries her first boy friend and at first they are very happy together. But when their first son arrives he becomes nasty being jealous about the boy, beating her and hanging around with friends all day leaving all the work to her. When their second child is on its way things get even worse, so that Katie decides to leave the house; but when she packs her suitcase the conflict climaxes to him getting shot. A trial is about to find out what happened

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The Face on the Milk Carton

Kellie Martin is one of my favourite actresses, anyone else agree? She plays a teenage girl who sees a photograph of herself one day in the school cafeteria – on a Missing Persons column on the side of a milk carton. But her beloved parents would never kidnap anyone and there’s a deeper mystery ahead.

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A Friend To Die For

Kellie Martin did a masterful job playing the role of an awkward teenage girl desperately yearning for acceptance from the “In” crowd in high school. Two scenes that totally sold me on how convincing the role of Angela was played was when Angela was being dropped off for the ski trip and, in front of the other kids, Angela’s mother goes to clean Angela’s face with a handkerchief. Embarrassed, Angela moves her mother’s arm and storms off to collect her bag. As Angela lifts her bag, she looks back to her mother and gives her a classic “Why did you do that, mom?” look that I think only Kellie Martin can make convincing.

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Finally, after being initiated by the Larks, Angela and the other girls go off driving looking for guys to kiss. Angela gets snubbed as she attempts to kiss an elder gentlemen sitting in his car. Reflecting on her public humiliation, Angela has a heart to heart talk with her sister about her wanting to be someone else. Kellie Martin played the role masterfully! This is a 5 Star Lifetime Movie!