A popular female high school teenager Amanda Walker (Bella Thorne) who thrives on posting her cheerleader dance moves on social media platforms dislocates her knee which leads her into a fast paced downward spiral of first taking pain medication, to hard drugs. As a teenager girls/boys all make a decision whether to become leaders or followers. In this case the once popular cheerleader Amanda becomes a follower to a more popular girl who leads her into sex, drugs and alcohol.
Of course her parents are oblivious to the warning signs that Amanda displays and they chalk her mood swings and periodic illnesses up to her cheerleading accident and a more recent eating disorder.
Further along going into a downward spiral Amanda befriends a few other drug abusers and she comes face to face with a life or death situation with her new found friend.
Of course this Lifetime movie is attempting to teach teenagers what can happen rather quickly if you get mixed up with the wrong crowd of friends, drink alcohol and take unknown drugs, but I thought they glorified the process as Amanda loses her virginity and enjoyed being high. In my humble view this Lifetime movie failed miserable and sent the reverse message that drugs and sex can be glamorous and there will always be someone there to save you before you go too far overboard with the drugs and/or alcohol. As for the sex? Lifetime seems to chalk that up to just being a normal teenager. Both sad and wrong again.
Too bad Lifetime missed the opportunity to take drug abuse, alcohol abuse and free sex more seriously then they did. Miss Thorne only helped glamorize these issues. There will certainly be no Emmy's for this tripe.
I give it a 3 out of 10 IMDB rating.
