Betrayed at 17 (2011)
About
A mother sets out to get justice after her daughter's life is destroyed by a private video that goes viral.
Lexi Ross is a teenager whose reputation collapses when intimate footage of her is passed around and then spreads online. What follows is not a single act of cruelty but a sustained public humiliation, at school and beyond it, that she has no way to stop.
Watching her daughter's life come apart, Michelle Ross refuses to accept that nothing can be done, and sets out to hold the people responsible to account.
Betrayed at 17 (2011) 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), October 9, 2011
- Search Amazon for Betrayed at 17
Details
Director: Doug Campbell
Writer/Screenplay: Christine Conradt
Producer: Ken Sanders, Robert Ballo
Running time: 88 minutes
Genre: Drama
Released: October 9, 2011
Music Composer: Steve Gurevitch
Cast
- Alexandra Paul as Michelle Ross
- Amanda Bauer as Lexi Ross
- Jake Thomas as Shane Ross
- Katie Gill as Carleigh Taylor
- Paula Trickey as Brenda Garrett
- Galadriel Stineman as Brooke Brandeis
- Christopher Kriesa as Detective Vincent
- Andy Fischer-Price as Greg Nickels
- Derek Phillips as Detective Morris
- Joe Penny as John Taylor
- Blaise Godbe Lipman as Jared Fostmeyer
- Nicole Cannon as Gina Wilson
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)
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Trivia
- The film is the third of nine Lifetime titles written by Christine Conradt whose names follow the pattern "... at 17".
- At 88 minutes it is one of the shorter entries in the series.
- Robert Ballo served as both producer and director of photography, as he did on several films in the cycle.
- Alexandra Paul is best known for playing Stephanie Holden in Baywatch.
Critical Reception
Betrayed at 17 is the entry in the cycle most directly built around online humiliation, and it arrived as that subject was becoming a regular theme in television drama. On IMDb the film holds an average user rating of approximately 5.4 out of 10 from around 930 votes.
Reviews
- IMDb users give the film an average rating of approximately 5.4 out of 10 from around 930 votes.
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Production
Betrayed 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. Robert Ballo also served as director of photography. Editing was by Bob Joyce and music by Steve Gurevitch.
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.
Betrayed at 17 is the third in the sequence, following Accused at 17 (2009).
