High School Lover

If you're like me and LOVE watching Lifetime movies then you'll like this one. Yes it's full of cliches, yes it's predictable BUT that's why people love these types of LMN movies lol

I guess the storyline is a 70s maybe 80s how-life-went-on.. nowadays unless in the rural areas, you're more jacked up than the movie suggests . Storyline is trivial and very predictible...acting is good at some parts but terrible at the argument/fighting/emotional ones.

Bottom line... if you're 10, you might learn... Otherwise ... don't bother!

Actually this happens in real life more than you know or more than we think. I won't give out any Spoilers. But my Suggestions would be. Try and live a Simply Lifestyle. Dating someone famous as well as a millionaire does not make your life necessarily Better. First sign of trouble in a relationship. RUN!!!

I'm old enough to remember when late 40 something Errol Flynn was dating 15 year old Beverly Aadland in the late 50s. Though the spread wasn't as big in High School Lover, I was kind of wondering who Francois Arnaud was channeling. Could it have been Errol Flynn?

James Franco's high school age daughter Paulina Singer gets comped into a private party with two of her friends Lana Gordon and Tyler Alvarez and she gets the hormones of late 20 something film star Arnaud in overdrive. As Franco is a director he's also in the business and his second wife Julia Jones and Arnaud have some history and it ain't good.

I don't need to tell you more. Arnaud gets some Flynn like publicity and a good deal more than that. Singer was legal so at least there aren't any rape charges.

What can I say High School Lover is as trashy as it gets. Although I can imagine a few years back it might have been the wish dream of any teen girl or gay teen boy to have say a Jonas brother waiting for school to let out on his motorcycle parked in front, these things truly don't happen in real life.

Speaking of gay boys Tyler Alvarez gives a nice positive performance of a gay teen. He's on the lacrosse team and apparently in this high school nobody really cares. Alvarez, Singer, and their friend Lena Gordon are like an R rated version of Lizzie McGuire and her two friends.

I liked how Alvarez played his role and how it was written. Too bad it's part of such trash.

Reminds me of the 90s version Fear. Loved the cast and Francois did fantastic!! Only criticism is wish there was more action in the film, maybe have the teen daughter more vulnerable. Other than that, I loved it!