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When a cheer captain gets kicked off the squad for fake salacious videos, she must catch the culprit and prove her innocence.

So this movie was ok...it held my attention. The ending was unexpected. But one thing....it&#39;s 2022...most homeowners have some type of surveillance these days. So the police didn&#39;t think to ask any neighbors if they could check out their Ring footage or security cam footage??? Come onnn a murder was committed, and none of the neighbors looked at their footage? Just about everyone on the NextDoor App loveess posting cam footage of &quot; suspects&quot; so nobody in that neighborhood is on NextDoor huh. Oh ok lol. If someone had bothered to look, they would&#39;ve seen Olivia arrive home way before she told the police. But of course, it would have changed the ending.

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Deadly Cheer Mom

This was originally called Cheerleader Conspiracy which I think is a pretty wonderful title. It even starts with some drama, as Beth Hartford (Tommi Rose) gets named cheer captain of Bridgebay High School, which some see as fishy as her mother Den (Mena Suvari, whose career spans American Beauty to American Pie movies to the TV series American Horror Story and American Woman and then goes off to be the lead in The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson) is the coach. All of the girls are competing for a scholarship to Rossmore Carmel University and Beth is in the lead until a video of her underage drinking and slambooking her fellow cheer team members - yes, I have seen too many teen films and yes, my terminology is old and analog - and that&#39;s when this movie asks all of us to know what a deepfake is and believes that high school cheerleaders have the skills - or is it their parents? - to make one. By the time this is over, you&#39;ll wonder who the bad guy is. Is it rival Ashley (Jazzy Kae Williams) and her mother Marisol (Karla Mosley)? The way too nice Olivia (Alexa Sutherland) and her mom Rebecca (Ashley Scott)? Or are our leads horrible people who don&#39;t even realize just how much they&#39;ve made everyone else absolutely detest them? Spoiler warning - this movie has an astounding ending in which Beth goes to jail for murder and the killer - whose mother screams, I should&#39;ve aborted you the minute I had the chance!&quot; - gets the scholarship and steals Beth&#39;s boyfriend. That&#39;s the kind of weirdness that never happens on Lifetime, where it feels like this movie kind of should be. I was going to say that this is the kind of movie where people start worrying about deepfakes without knowing that they take a lot of effort to make, but this is based on a true story. Raffaela Spone, a Bucks County, PA cheer mom, was accused of making deepfake videos of her daughter Allie&#39;s cheerleading rivals vaping, drinking and posing nude, then sending them to coaches, along with texts that told the girls &quot;you should kill yourself.&quot; Raffaela was arrested on six counts of misdemeanor harassment and cyber harassment of a child. According to Cosmopolitan, Bucks County DA Matt Weintraub said to the press, &quot;This tech is now available to anyone with a smartphone. Your neighbor down the street, somebody who holds a grudge, we just have no way of knowing. It&#39;s another way for an adult to now prey on children.&quot; Except that, well, that wasn&#39;t true. The cops had made a judgment call and experts in deepfake started commenting online and in the media that there was no way that someone with no training could do this. And all those texts and threatening images - and even the videos - had no evidence of ever coming from Raffaela&#39;s phone. A digital-forensics expert who&#39;d made a complete copy of the confiscated phone testified that there was no way that that phone could create and had never sent any of the threats or media that implicated the girls. A detective even went on to admit - under oath - that he had never even bothered to look at Raffaela&#39;s phone. And then the officer who first said that it was all a deepfake, Matthew Reiss, got busted for possession of child porn yet his report remains on record. Bucks County DA&#39;s office dropped the deepfake accusation and finally convicted Raffala with three counts of misdemeanor cyber harassment n May of 2022. The media stories I&#39;ve found never point out that all of the police evidence against her doesn&#39;t even exist.

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She was never convicted with cyber harassment. They dropped the false chargesBut everything you else you stated was truthful. Before making this movie did anyone actually verify any facts???!!!!!! No and a persons life get destroyed over companies who want views and like and followers. Talk to people look at factual evidence. So we now live in A world that doesn&#39;t care about a false narrative they put out there they don&#39;t care to vet their sources or any informational facts. I wonder how outlets would feel if this happened to them people and their lives for stuff like this and putting out stuff like this, you should be held accountable, it&#39;s just not OK.

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In &quot;Deadly Cheer Mom&quot; (aka, &quot;Cheerleader Conspiracy&quot;), there was a satirical approach to a serious subject about cyberbullying and character assassination. In tackling these issues, the filmmakers achieved a unique approach to a familiar topic. Much credit belongs to actress Tommi Rose, who injects a sly undercurrent of humor into what could have been a melodramatic situation. In her portrayal of Beth, the captain of the cheerleading squad, who loses everything, the overriding approach is that of irony. The scripting was superb with lines of dialogue that were rife with ambiguity. The cast performed admirably in teasing out nuances to evoke strategic moments of genuine sinister behavior. As the daughter of the cheerleading coach, Beth seemed to have every advantage. In fact, however, she was in the most vulnerable position given the cutthroat nature of the other cheerleaders and their mothers. The character interactions were always engaging, and the ending was not so much a surprise as it was an organic conclusion to the lives of those who were governed not by competition and healthy rivalry, but by obsession.

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I thought this was actually a pretty solid movie that should&#39;ve gotten more hype. I feel like the ending would be the only thing that u would change since there wasn&#39;t any consequences to actions but despite that like I said the movie was good and honestly kind of relevant to what can happen in todays world. I thought this was actually a pretty solid movie that should&#39;ve gotten more hype. I feel like the ending would be the only thing that u would change since there wasn&#39;t any consequences to actions but despite that like I said the movie was good and honestly kind of relevant to what can happen in todays world.

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This one surprisingly I liked. It was very different to other LMN movies. Well there is another one with a similar ending. Called A Neighbor&#39;s Vendetta (2023) where the framed person is incarcerated and the real killer is free. To be honest I did not like. Either Deb or Beth. As I had guessed it Deb did have bias towards her daughter on the cheerleading team, and as she was the coach she selected Beth as cheer captain. And she did admit to Beth on the video conference that she used nepotism towards for her daughter. I did not much like the other characters either. All the girls seemed fake who given the opportunity would backstab each other without any qualm. I can and cannot blame Olivia for what she did, but her mom Rebecca, played by Ashley Scott was a total biatch. When we hear her say: I should have aborted you when I had the chance to Olivia, then for a moment, one cannot blame her for using the softball bat on her mother&#39;s head. I did not like Beth&#39;s boyfriend either, and for a good part of the movie he was the leading suspect of the deepfake videos.

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