Basically if you saw that one, you know how this turns out. Plots are virtually identical.
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Poor cheerleaders what next?
phd_travel18 September 2019
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A college student cheerleader has some financial difficulties paying her tuition. Some wealthy older men who support the school get cheerleaders as escorts. The lead actresses are pretty and they cheer well. Although it deals with sleazy subject matter it's feels okay.
The ending feels a little too neat for her. Everyone is so okay with sleeping with a guy for money. Did she pay him back? I Guess is isn't high school. So she can do what she wants.
Great!
BandSAboutMovies25 March 2021
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This is closer to what I wanted out of a cheerleader movie from this set. Again, a new girl, a new school, an instant admission to a cheerleading team and then, the new girl can no longer afford to go to college, so she gets into a prostitution ring that's run by her coach and a bunch of alumni who she trusts until its too late. I kind of love that this movie is shot in around three locations with a minimal budget to the point that the basketball game looks like the least athletic sporting event you've ever seen. Big points for the giallo like scene and killing off one of the cheerleaders by shooting her up with drugs, as well as the main girl deluding herself into thinking that the scummiest man you've ever seen could possibly love her and even the other guy more age appropriate to her also has a girlfriend and she still keeps giving him signals like she wants him. Everyone in this movie is either a moron or a horrible person except for the roomate who never ever leaves her room and seemingly only exists to be a sounding board and the only sign of ethnicity in this entire movie. This movie also has more Canadian accents than an 80's slasher.
Mom says "we all make mistakes, but we learn from them" Duhhhh????
Ed-Shullivan23 September 2020
There is a hilarious commercial where a bunch of teens are looking for a place to hide so they decide to run into an open garage door where there is nothing but a bunch of chain saws hanging from the ceiling and the killer is lurking inside the garage in anticipation, and yet these dummies still run into the garage.
The above commercial's scene is what this Lifetime made for TV film reminded me of throughout. This innocent young girl named Cassie Talbot (Alexandra Beaton) joins the cheerleader team on her very first day of arriving on her college campus with her best friend and her life experience as a new cheerleader is so overwhelming when her team mate tells her that one of the alumni is very generous so she is going to take her out on the town (still on her very first day of arriving on campus) and get a complete re-do, hair, makeup and a whack of expensive clothing. What college would this ever happen at for a bloody cheerleader recruit?
The film just gets worse and worse as Cassie ignores all the warning signs of getting into prostitution by meeting middle aged men, and of course her mother is spiraling into financial stresses as her husband and Cassie's father is delinquent on his child support, spousal support, and his $20,000.00 cheque for Cassie's tuition bounced. So what's a young girl to do eh?
I think this storyline must have been written in less than a day, and filmed by the end of the same day, just as quickly as Cassie came on Campus and became a paid for virgin cheerleader escort.
Do not waste your time on this poorly written story line. Avoid it as Cassie should have avoided becoming a cheerleader escort. No brains, no story here. I give it a 2 out of 10 IMDB rating.
The above commercial's scene is what this Lifetime made for TV film reminded me of throughout. This innocent young girl named Cassie Talbot (Alexandra Beaton) joins the cheerleader team on her very first day of arriving on her college campus with her best friend and her life experience as a new cheerleader is so overwhelming when her team mate tells her that one of the alumni is very generous so she is going to take her out on the town (still on her very first day of arriving on campus) and get a complete re-do, hair, makeup and a whack of expensive clothing. What college would this ever happen at for a bloody cheerleader recruit?
The film just gets worse and worse as Cassie ignores all the warning signs of getting into prostitution by meeting middle aged men, and of course her mother is spiraling into financial stresses as her husband and Cassie's father is delinquent on his child support, spousal support, and his $20,000.00 cheque for Cassie's tuition bounced. So what's a young girl to do eh?
I think this storyline must have been written in less than a day, and filmed by the end of the same day, just as quickly as Cassie came on Campus and became a paid for virgin cheerleader escort.
Do not waste your time on this poorly written story line. Avoid it as Cassie should have avoided becoming a cheerleader escort. No brains, no story here. I give it a 2 out of 10 IMDB rating.
Did she just say that? Really?
haroot_azarian6 August 2021
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Those who claim the word exploitation particular to this movie are wrong, and are frankly insulting all the millions of women victims of real exploitation. These cheerleaders knew what they were doing and were willing to provide services to live the life of luxury and college fees. The funniest moment of the movie was what Cassie said to Terry after she found the pink panties. "I never wanted your money?! Oh really?? Um you got your mother's dance studio's 2 months rent paid by him, you got 5 grand paid towards your college tuition by him and knew damn well where the money came from and you never wanted his money? Oh puh-leez! PS I can't stand Damon Runyan!
Cringe
nightroses11 May 2021
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A sleazy racket going on in a college, the corrupt coach prostituting out cheerleaders to rich older men. It was kind of a disgusting story. The scene when the audience can hear the coach admitting to it without knowing and then when she returns is the best in the entire movie.
not graphical enough
NijazBaBs29 May 2020
I hated this movie for being boring for most of the time until near the end when twist happened. The most boring was annoying usual talk in form of greeting, saluting, lieing, faking, and doing things out of fear or just to get something. There are completely skipped scenes of attacks, unlike in better lifetime moves. The topic is not that good - extortion and doing all for money and using girls as slaves, but other things are more interesting such as possible pedophilia or at least something very close to that such as prostituion. Ending is bit good because of the twist, but still talk only, so this is one of worse lifetime movies. Makeup and look of people at least show that actors put in some effort, so not the worst movie.
An enjoyable flic and a warning to young women
DrWallyII28 September 2019
This film succeeds as a warning to young women about being exploited by others and not just older men who might have their own ulterior motives. The pressure of adolescence and coming of age have their challenges. But sometimes the dangers lurk in the role models most close to them (female coach) who often put their own needs first before their responsibilities as adult mentors. If the film succeeds on this level it has greater value than mere entertainment and that makes it worth a view.
Let that be a lesson to you freshman girls!
Chartreuse118 August 2020
Fresh-faced Alexandra Beaton plays freshman Cassie Talbot who needs money to pay her college tuition. Enter Gabby, who suggests that she try out for cheerleading. Cassie makes the squad and receives all the perks that come along with it! Good girl gone wrong but it does have a happy ending! Definitely recommend!
Hanging Up the Pom Poms
lavatch5 July 2020
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Young Cassie Talbot has just been accepted to Tate Riley University in Philadelphia, where she has tried out and been accepted into the cheerleading squad. But the cheerleading is a front for an escort operation run by the coach, Stephanie Dodger. Cassie is being groomed as a new attraction for the wealthy, powerful men in the ring.
Growing up in small-town Doyleston, Cassie is naive in every way. And when her deadbeat dad loses his job, goes back to gambling, and is unable to pay his daughter's tuition, Cassie takes up the offer of one of the cheerleaders, Gabby (Gabs), to have a drink with Terry Dunes, a powerful defense attorney. After their coupling, Mr. Dunes pays $5,000 towards Cassie's tuition. But Terry Dunes will be Cassie's first and last trick.
After Gabs mysteriously dies from an apparent drug overdose, the resourceful Cassie moves into action to learn the truth about her fellow cheerleader. It turns out that Gabs became pregnant by one of the johns, then became what for him was a "stage-five clinger" who had to eliminated. Steph Dodger facilitated the death of one of her "girls."
In the grand finale, Steph is set up through the efforts of Cassie, her bestie Alyssa (Lys), and her friend from calculus class, Kyle. Steph is exposed as the madam in front of a large university gathering. Cassie decides that it's now time to hang up the pom poms and return home to live with her dear, financially strapped mother.
The incident of cheering for the Tate Riley Tigers has been part of Cassie's learning curve about what a $30,000 freshman year can buy you at an American university.
Growing up in small-town Doyleston, Cassie is naive in every way. And when her deadbeat dad loses his job, goes back to gambling, and is unable to pay his daughter's tuition, Cassie takes up the offer of one of the cheerleaders, Gabby (Gabs), to have a drink with Terry Dunes, a powerful defense attorney. After their coupling, Mr. Dunes pays $5,000 towards Cassie's tuition. But Terry Dunes will be Cassie's first and last trick.
After Gabs mysteriously dies from an apparent drug overdose, the resourceful Cassie moves into action to learn the truth about her fellow cheerleader. It turns out that Gabs became pregnant by one of the johns, then became what for him was a "stage-five clinger" who had to eliminated. Steph Dodger facilitated the death of one of her "girls."
In the grand finale, Steph is set up through the efforts of Cassie, her bestie Alyssa (Lys), and her friend from calculus class, Kyle. Steph is exposed as the madam in front of a large university gathering. Cassie decides that it's now time to hang up the pom poms and return home to live with her dear, financially strapped mother.
The incident of cheering for the Tate Riley Tigers has been part of Cassie's learning curve about what a $30,000 freshman year can buy you at an American university.
A reality of today captured by Lifetime
jdarcy_199917 October 2020
A sad reality of today as rising college costs drive young women to sugar daddies and the like - this is a good movie that, as Lifetime often does, goes a wee tad over the top. But better than most LMs and insightful. This stuff goes on!
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