Missing at 17 (2013)
About
A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a dangerous man, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Candace is a teenager caught up with someone who means her harm, and when she disappears the search for her falls to the two women who each have a claim on her.
The film's distinguishing turn is that the adoptive mother who raised her and the birth mother who gave her up have to work together to find her, a pairing that forces both of them to confront what they owe the girl and each other.
Missing at 17 (2013) 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 19, 2013
- Search Amazon for Missing at 17
Details
Director: Doug Campbell
Writer/Screenplay: Christine Conradt
Producer: Ken Sanders, Robert Ballo
Running time: 90 minutes
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: October 19, 2013
Music Composer: Steve Gurevitch
Cast
- Ayla Kell as Candace
- Tricia O'Kelley as Shannon
- Ben Gavin as Toby
- Micah Alberti as Vance
- Gary Hudson as Mike Foster
- Jonathan Camp as Keenan
- Jacob Hopkins as Andrew
- Alex Carter as Kurt
- Marin Hinkle as Callie
- Brandi Glanville as Erica
- Brittany Beery as Avery
- Ramon Camacho as Pedro
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 fifth of nine Lifetime titles written by Christine Conradt whose names follow the pattern "... at 17".
- It holds the highest IMDb user rating of any film in the series.
- It is the first entry on which Christine Conradt is credited as an executive producer as well as writer, a role she kept for several later films in the cycle.
- Marin Hinkle is best known for playing Judith Harper in Two and a Half Men.
Critical Reception
Missing at 17 is the best rated film in the sequence on IMDb, where it holds an average user rating of approximately 5.8 out of 10 from around 545 votes. Its two-mothers structure gives it a more developed adult storyline than most entries in the cycle.
Reviews
- IMDb users give the film an average rating of approximately 5.8 out of 10 from around 545 votes.
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Production
Missing at 17 was directed by Doug Campbell from a screenplay by Christine Conradt, and produced by Ken Sanders and Robert Ballo, with Christine Conradt, Pierre David and Tom Berry as executive producers. Robert Ballo also served as director of photography, with editing by Gregory Hobson 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.
Missing at 17 is the fifth in the sequence, following Stalked at 17 (2012), and the last to be made by the Ken Sanders and Robert Ballo unit before the series moved to the Canadian production team that made the remaining four films.
