Accused at 17 (2009)
About
A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate, insists she was framed by her best friend, and leaves her mother to prove it.
Bianca Madler is arrested for the killing of a fellow student. She maintains that she had nothing to do with it and that she has been deliberately set up by her best friend, Fallyn Werner, but the evidence against her is strong and few people believe her.
With her daughter facing a murder charge, Jacqui Madler begins her own investigation into what happened, and into the girl Bianca says is responsible.
Accused at 17 (2009) is part of Christine Conradt's long-running "at 17" cycle of Lifetime television films, each a self-contained story about a teenage girl whose life is derailed by a single event.
Where to Watch
- Premiered on Lifetime (United States), 2009
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Details
Director: Doug Campbell
Writer/Screenplay: Christine Conradt
Producer: Ken Sanders, Robert Ballo
Running time: 90 minutes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 2009
Music Composer: Michael Burns, Steve Gurevitch
Cast
- Cynthia Gibb as Jacqui Madler
- Nicole Gale Anderson as Bianca Madler
- Janet Montgomery as Fallyn Werner
- Stella Maeve as Sarah Patterson
- William R. Moses as Michael Werner
- Barbara Niven as Claire Werner
- Linden Ashby as Detective Reeder
- Reiley McClendon as Chad Voyt
- William Stanford Davis as Detective Gilson
- Shirley Jordan as Ellen Walterson
- Timi Prulhiere as Rita Patterson
- Mark S. Porro as Clinton Thane Esq.
Franchise
One of nine Lifetime films written by Christine Conradt under the "... at 17" title pattern:
- Dead at 17 (2008)
- Accused at 17 (2009)
- Betrayed at 17 (2011)
- Stalked at 17 (2012)
- Missing at 17 (2013)
- Guilty at 17 (2014)
- Pregnant at 17 (2016)
- Murdered at 17 (2018)
- Zombie at 17 (2018)
Related
Trivia
- The film is the second of nine Lifetime titles written by Christine Conradt whose names follow the pattern "... at 17".
- Sources differ on the release date. Both IMDb and The Movie Database list the film under 2009, while IMDb separately records a release date of May 1, 2010.
- Janet Montgomery went on to lead the television series Salem and to a regular role in New Amsterdam.
- It is the first entry in the series produced by Ken Sanders and Robert Ballo, the pairing later responsible for Double Daddy (2015).
Critical Reception
Accused at 17 is among the better known entries in the cycle and has attracted more audience votes than any other film in the sequence apart from Stalked at 17 (2012). On IMDb it holds an average user rating of approximately 5.3 out of 10 from around 1,460 votes.
Reviews
- IMDb users give the film an average rating of approximately 5.3 out of 10 from around 1,460 votes.
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Production
Accused at 17 was directed by Doug Campbell from a screenplay by Christine Conradt, and produced by Ken Sanders and Robert Ballo with Pierre David as executive producer. Editing was by Keith Croket, with music by Michael Burns and Steve Gurevitch.
Ken Sanders and Robert Ballo are the same producing pair behind Double Daddy (2015), which gives the two clusters a direct production link rather than only a thematic one.
The "at 17" series
Christine Conradt wrote nine Lifetime television films sharing the "... at 17" title pattern, running from Dead at 17 (2008) through to Murdered at 17 (2018) and Zombie at 17 (2018). The films are not a continuing story and share no characters; what links them is a common formula, in which an otherwise ordinary teenage girl makes one decision, or suffers one piece of bad luck, that exposes her to adult danger.
Accused at 17 is the second in the sequence, following Dead at 17 (2008). It is the first of four consecutive entries directed by Doug Campbell.
