There's a lot to cringe at here, but I finished it. Truth be told, I only watched it for Ashley Jones who I know from B&B (the campiest soap still on tv). She's not the best actress, but her soap background fits right in with this over the top flick.
Lifetime has better movies with this theme, and the way Granny, Mom, and Whitney behave, and how rich they are supposed to be, this movie should have gone with a debutante pageant or something bigger than homecoming queen. It was just silly how serious they took freaking homecoming. A debutante ball would have made more sense given Granny and Mom's level of involvement. Mind you, this wasn't a private school; it was your basic Lifetime high school. Nothing about it warranted the extreme behavior. I kept asking myself who cares about this. Also, since Whitney apparently is a good student without her mother's interference, it could have been a debutante (or equivalent) pageant competition with a scholarship connected to it. Would have made Whitney a more gray area character and given this absurd movie some depth.
The character of Whitney was the standard mean girl. I think it would have been better had her bad behavior maybe been more under the radar? She wasn't exactly Taylor from She's All That. We can blame the adults in her life for spoiling her and teaching her terrible morals, but she was just a bad person. She was willing to do way too much to everyone for me to believe she'd actually win. But I get it, Lifetime churns and burns movies, so there will be some that are more of a farce than others.
As usual, the "police investigation" part of the movie was lame. Tired of movies having characters steal stuff and take to the police. Whitney's rich family's lawyer would have absolutely gotten that illegally taken DNA thrown out..which would blow the whole case. I get it's a movie, but come on.
Watch as background noise once while you're doing something else . I don't think this movie is worth making the focus of your evening.
Lifetime has better movies with this theme, and the way Granny, Mom, and Whitney behave, and how rich they are supposed to be, this movie should have gone with a debutante pageant or something bigger than homecoming queen. It was just silly how serious they took freaking homecoming. A debutante ball would have made more sense given Granny and Mom's level of involvement. Mind you, this wasn't a private school; it was your basic Lifetime high school. Nothing about it warranted the extreme behavior. I kept asking myself who cares about this. Also, since Whitney apparently is a good student without her mother's interference, it could have been a debutante (or equivalent) pageant competition with a scholarship connected to it. Would have made Whitney a more gray area character and given this absurd movie some depth.
The character of Whitney was the standard mean girl. I think it would have been better had her bad behavior maybe been more under the radar? She wasn't exactly Taylor from She's All That. We can blame the adults in her life for spoiling her and teaching her terrible morals, but she was just a bad person. She was willing to do way too much to everyone for me to believe she'd actually win. But I get it, Lifetime churns and burns movies, so there will be some that are more of a farce than others.
As usual, the "police investigation" part of the movie was lame. Tired of movies having characters steal stuff and take to the police. Whitney's rich family's lawyer would have absolutely gotten that illegally taken DNA thrown out..which would blow the whole case. I get it's a movie, but come on.
Watch as background noise once while you're doing something else . I don't think this movie is worth making the focus of your evening.