Being popular in highschool isn’t worth it. Most of them stay the same after highschool. A lot of the unpopular kids end up surpassing them. Be yourself
@@user-ef7zm2yk8oi think she was just nuts but of course Angela was feeling guilty so she presumed the old woman saw something.. well thats my theory. It was stupid though
This movie should be shown to teens out there in order for them to see the cruelty of materialism, peer pressure and bullying. If you can't be pretty, popular and rich, then focus on your studies and be satisfied with what you have. Everyone is special in their own way.
Though I agree, I must be realistic and say that it's not that easy as you put it. Children can't just 'focus on their studies and be grateful for what they have'. They are going through deep rooted emotional problems that needs to be addressed through counselling (not peer counselling, btw).
1st time I ever hear of this story but I'm not surprised! The popular thing with teenagers's too much in the states's highschools....to my opinion, where the most popular bully the other kids.
@@HaramXLI am adding this one to my playlist "Based on True Story". I also have a "Truthful Fiction" playlist. Lots of great movies on them both, and I'm still adding to them, check them out❤
I don't understand why Angela was so fixated on becoming friends with Stacey when she had a genuine friend like Gill. Angela even minimised Stacey's bullying of Monica, "oh, she's just being funny." I wonder, if Stacey had have accepted Angela fully as her friend, would she have been happily coerced into bullying Monica as well?
This was the 80s, where topics like the excesses of materialism and competitivity, as well as bullying, were not as discussed and known as they are today
Angela was so obsessed because in the teenagers world, you sometimes happen to take bad examples and admire the wrong persons...Stacey was the typical popular bitchy badass Miss Popularity queen I feel there are popular girls like Stacey, and they are dominant, so the majority of shy girls wants to act like her, be like her etc.... bad society prototypes and at that age you see them as Gods , but after 20 yrs maybe u remember them and u laugh
I have seen this movie more times than I can count. Also followed the actual case that inspired this movie. It's so sad how this young girl ruined her life all in an attempt to belong.
Teenage pressure is the worst type of pressure because you don't know better. I put myself under such demanding academic pressure to please my father that I nearly ruined my life. When you make a mistake it feels like the sky is falling in. It feels like the world is ending. I had a friend in the same high achieving class who attempted suicide because she didnt get the score she wanted.
Didn't realize it was based on real events, but no surprise...yes, pressures are enormous - ironically enough - Switzerland and Japan has highest percentage of suicides by young adults, students...
Seen this film so many times over the years. I first watched it as a teenager and could relate to Angela so much because I was a bit of an outcast myself not having the latest brand name items and not having much money. High school can be really tough. The scene where Angela's mother comes to get her at school always gets me. It always gets me when she says ''Don't hate me Mom''. It's a very good movie and I think a lot of teenagers would benefit from watching it. I wish I could tell teens that are going through bullying and feelings of being cast out, that high school doesn't last forever and you will be out of that situation and moved on to better things.
@@izzydeadyet7336 The 27 popular lies of this world: lets analyse the lies which are world wide believed and origin from masons: lie: schools are of use (fact. schools keep slavery alive and stands for dumbing down the population of mankind) lie: moon and mars landings, (fact: even masons know they cannot leave - earth is closed system, unless you want to drown, there is no other place created for us to live in.) lie: news channels share truth (fact: these are for politic propaganda) lie: voting matters (fact: politic propaganda) lie: money has a value of its own (fact: it is just a tool of this world, which value has been agreed upon world wide, it should be not loved, only used as needed.) lie: NASA lies (globe and all....) (fact: NASA stands for TO DECEIVE and 2 members expose their own lies, one is still alive, the other (Wernher Von Braun) place a clear clue on his own gravestone) - you havn´t searched - have you? lie: the lgbtq++++ propaganda (fact: it is a part of masonry depopulation agenda, 500 000 000 souls, thats their goal - Georgia Guidestones! - who said it be worthy to forget?) lie: Evolution and the dinosaurs. (fact: mankind is not hybrid kind) to keep stating that there was an evolution, then we ain´t humans, we aint then mankind, we are then hybrids. Are you a hybrid? Lie: holidays (xmas, Halloween, new year eve and so on) (fact: PAGAN HOLIDAYS, to praise BAAL, the god of this world) lie: U.F.Os (fact: they are demons/evil spirits in high places, against whom we fight daily = spiritual warfare) lie: rules and laws rule the world (fact: signs and symbols of masonry do) lie: believe in being educated (fact: found daily living with the lack of knowledge) lie: religions are ways to heaven (fact: JESUS CHRIST is only way to heaven. Religions, no matter its name = masonic garbage) lie: our dead loved ones stay around to “ghost” (fact: hunting and ghosting is job of demons, not of humans. We, humans, come from GOD and return back to HIM and all the stories of having been seen a ghost - terrifying, scary, dark, cold - again no job of analysing been done here by you- right?) Lie: Humans have no immune system and we need vaccines as these save lives (fact: humans HAVE IMMUNE SYSTEM and vaccines are created for one or two purpose: to kill or to cripple. If you took all their poison shots then later in life comes all kinds of medical diagnoses = vaccines crippled you - remember that) lie: there is no GOD (fact: There is GOD, who redeems sinners and created us directly from the dust of the earth: Psalms 139:14 (KJV) I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.) to keep claiming that there is no GOD and we aint created directly from the dust of the earth, we soon run out logic, regardless to we place “evolution” in our claims or not and our dead, whats happening to them as they sleep in their graves? - they decay away, becoming the dust form which they were taken, if it ain`t so then we are simply reality deniers. lie: 911 was terror attack (fact: 911 was an inside job, meaning the work of your loved government) lie: TV watching is of use (fact: television (TV) = tell a lie vision, a weapon for our minds, keeping it under MK ULTRA) half lie/half truth: earth is a stage where everyone plays rolls (fact: earth is stage, a freemasonry checkerboard, where both side, black and white are masons and humans both in politics and regular souls = the naive public gets daily played) lie: children are government to raise (fact: children are parents to raise, it takes 2 to make them, it takes 2 to raise them). Lie: we live already in the matrix (fact: we live since birth in BABYLON which is to become “matrix” as Man - us, must merge with machine aka take the mark of the beast and then matrix aka false reality becomes to be 100%) lie: humans are not intelligent enough (fact: it is forgotten fact, we all are intelligent, many have suffered the illness from this world, being indoctrinated by masons, cause who give us the school system which we have? masons did, because they need slaves). Lie: love is low standard and = lust (fact love is high standard as love means> John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Lie> do what thy wilt there is no body who has the right to judge you (fact> GOD SHALL JUDGE YOU AFTER YOU HAVE DEPARTED ON EARTH and Christians are also called to give out righteous judgment, therefore repent * born again * go and sin no more) lie: slavery is over (fact: slavery was never over, it just changes a little as we are no longer buy`d or sold, still prepared through school systems for our future slavery, succumb to our slave lives based on our free will) lie: BIBLE is man written and a fairytale (fact: BIBLE is written by GOD, through man, bible is not fairytale. BIBLE IS: BASIC INFORMATION/instruction BEFORE LEAVING EARTH = BIBLE. A book - yes, book which we all need as it is only one filled with information and instructions we all need for life on earth. Lie: Miss beauty contests around the world is about beauty of FEMALES (fact: these contests are about beauty of MALES IN DRAG) lie: Medical “virus” known as COVID 19 (facts: real VIRUSES are in Hollywood and kept secret: - THE TTM virus = being tare, trans, mason. 27 lies, should i go on? This world ain´t deceived, out there to deceive?
I’m sorry but the cheerleader and her friends weren’t the nicest but Angela was an unhappy lost soul who seemed validation from the wrong people. Normal bully victims can’t even go on with their day without being attacked for being them. Angela was forcing herself into crowds when all she needed to do is be content with her life and the wonderful people around her. She’s a pyscho
The actors did an amazing job! Great message with valuable lessons to learn and take away. To be popular doesn’t mean that you have to be an abusive bully, parents, teachers and principal should have been more aware but kids don’t make this easy; kids keep secrets to avoid humiliation from their school peers, they are afraid to be their true selves to avoid being bullied. Toxic behaviour is deadly and it needs to stop!
@@BriaBarrowstrue they take it with them their whole life I also was been bullied and discriminated on high school and I still think of it and how bad I want to hurt them being so mean to me and it bothers me because it happens still to other innocent teenagers
Angela was extremely insecure and wanted to be liked by Stacey so bad.! I wish she just dealt with her insecurities instead of killing that girl . Just a sad situation over all
I thought she was a writer in the movie. Maybe she could have written her feelings out in a journal. When I was a teenager I wrote songs about feeling unpopular (and sung them while playing the guitar also).
I was so the Ange of high school, didnt get into a play i auditioned for & the sports team i wanted to be in, my parents did their best but didnt have alot of money so was made fun of my clothing & wanted desperately to fit in with the popular girls who just rejected me. Im not saying theres any excuse for murder but completely understand the frustration, being disheartened & feeling like a failure. I would love to go back in time and tell my young self none of that stuff mattered!
This movie was part of the frog in the water affect. The beginning of passing the blame. Yes, she lived with pressure to fit in. Millions of kids have. But she went too far. She killed someone in anger. Her actions were wrong and she had to face the consequences. Millions of kids chose NOT to kill despite facing similar or worse situations,
Exactly. Especially when Stacey didn't do anything wrong. It's Angela that was obsessed with popularity. Can't believe some people make killer out to be a victim
I think we all experienced this kind of separation of the “popular” and “unpopular” in school, but nah this was 😩 Angela honestly never stood a chance because they put so much emphasis on popularity and beauty in the school. She felt like a loser. There needed to be more clubs for students who weren’t popular, but the school didn’t help because they set the standard for what they thought was “the best”
Very sad movie... But the reality is that the society puts such pressure on the kids... It should not be to be the best, but do your best. That should be the emphasis. Kids should be taught that each one is gifted in some way and they must be encouraged to find their gifts and capitalize on them. They must be taught to respect everyone and not bully them. This is our responsibility as the community, society, school, church and home.
Yeah depending on where shes horrible or nice, the popular girl at my middle school was a bully, so people would try and be her friend so as not to the target of her “jokes” even now in my 40s I remember it vividly…….. girls can be very cruel
Kellie Martin was one hell of an actress in this movie. I think Tori Spelling was perfect for her role. My two favourite characters were Jill, the bohemian type and Monika the individualist. In Canada where I live, the two latter characters are usually academics or involved in the arts. They are not seen as weirdos.
Kathryn Morris was brilliant in the role of Monica. Even earlier in her career she made an impact even with limited screen time. Superb actress. Monica was for me the most attractive, compelling and interesting of the girls there because she had her own personality.
I was so happy to read that Kellie Martin (47) has been happily married for 25 yrs w/two children. She has a degree in Art History, owns & operates a toy store, has authored a book and is very involved in animal causes. I saw a picture of her w/her family, surrounded by what must be their pet goats and they are a beautiful family.💓
Tbh I don't quite like Angie's demeanor. Everyone has a specific vibe, style and body type but Angie is obviously dorky, with a grandma fashion sense and timid body language. I'm not saying she is inferior and the other girls are better. I'm just saying there is room for improvement for Angie and it takes time and effort (to learn about style, and to be fit). She is forcing herself to a circle that she doesn't belong to. And when she doesn't get what she wants, she lashes out? She is not all that innocent. Also the way Angie is obsessed with Stacey is alarming. You can be angry, disappointed and all that but when you stab someone who is defenceless, you are a monster. Don't tell me she is not secretly jealous of Stacey. Just providing a different perspective.
Unfortunately UK schools are going the same way as US schools…proms were not a thing here back in the 70s/80s…now it’s all about the ‘prom’ nothing about the hard work… it’s all about being pretty and popular 😢
No one deserves to die for being a bully, but they sure deserve to be put in their place. The girl from the true story was a bully, but that usually comes with being pretty and popular. She should have faced the consequences of her actions, death was not the answer. But everyone also knows that attitude first comes from what you see at home, the parents in this movie sure think highly of themselves and of Stacey, they believe that no rules apply to them or their daughter because they are rich, beautiful and successful. Think again.
such the biggest bully, the best ending would of been put in her place as it looks like no one wanted to stand up to her, if you think to Mean Girls she was put in her place finally by Katy and Janice, they all agreed not to back stab and just accept each other
@@CurvyCass1982 Unfortunately for the most part they are, it just comes with being praised and thus thinking that you are better than everyone else. I have met a few though who were really kind but that is a minority nowadays.
The character of Angela was so well played. You start to feel sorry for her. Because deep down we've all struggled with wanting to be accepted. But you then forget. The evil crime she actually committed and continued to make excuses for. And I'm so sure Kirsten's actual family don't see her as this poor little girl.
Omg, I needed a lot of time to process that this is the reality of social order in American high schools and colleges. So superficial, primitive, sad and shocking...🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Right! Jill was a better friend to her than she was to her, Jill always tried to build her up and support her and all Ang did in return was sulk in self pity and talk about Stacey and conspire, and try to force her way in to a place she didnt belong, she wasnt a friend to Jill at all, she'd dump Jill so quick without a thought if her opportunity to be apart of Stacey's circle came up, Ang is incredibly self centered, I feel the most sorry for for the parents on both sides and Jill and Monica
Everybody going on about poor Angela’s family being skint etc and her not having the best of things .. jeez ! What about the other girl they refer to as “witch” that poor girl probably took crap every day. Personal and disgusting abuse , yet she doesn’t plunge a knife into a girls back. Monica took the crap for the murder for a while and if Angela could have gotten away with it she probably never would have came clean. She knew the cops were homing in on her . Whilst bullying is vile and Stacy’s mind and childish behavior is not acceptable , murder is not to be sympathized . Angela had a loving family , nice home and her health. Love these movies though!
which one? Kelly or Toni? They were pretty well known at the time. Valerie Harper is playing a bit part as mom, but she was way more famous that any of them! Tori Spelling just had a rich daddy, who tried to make roles for her to play.
@@lisawentworth6831 I assume they meant Kelly. Tori (not Toni) was in the movie just at the beginning of the movie...so I wouldn't call her a main girl.
Brilliant movie, loved it. Great cast and acting !!! 1:02:37 James Avery known as Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, great actor / legend. RIP ❤️🙏❤️ Thank you for downloading this. (03/06/2023)
A movie about acceptance into the popular group in school...oh dear...I remember it all as well..but this was real nasty stuff and pathetic, too. Pity, popularity doesn't mean stepping on someone's toes. Did she deserve to die? Hmmm ..some say yes.....but who are we to be judge, jury and executioner?! Think about it. The world is a horrible place only if you let the world get to you. Be yourself, love yourself. That's important. Respect yourself then only will others respect you.
I was never popular in high school, but I've always blended in with the popular girls for some reason, & we weren't mean to other peers. They're still my friends, even though we're miles apart. I think being confident & loving yourself is one of the keys 😅
Yes when I look back and think of popular girls from my youth they weren’t mean just a confidence I wish I had . I was friendly with them but not one of them . Having confidence from young age is a huge help
The truth is: Angela (Bernadette Protti) planned the murder of Stacy (Kristen Costas) from the beginning. Bernadette made an anonymous call to Kristen's mother from a public phone and told her she wanted to invite Kristen to a party. It was an ambush. Bernadette was wearing a t-shirt and pants the night she killed Kristen because she had no intention to go to any party. She drove to a church station and then said or did something that scared Kristen, and Kristen run out of the car. Then, Kristen got a house and knocked asking if she could use the phone. The family guy offered to drive her home. Bernadette followed them. When Kristen was alone again Bernadette killed her with a knife of 45cm that she purposely brought with her. Bernadette was envious and jealous because Kristen was everything she wanted to be.
@@karlheinz4265This is based on a true story and that is a very harsh thing to say. The family of the real victim has to live with that loss every day.
I rather have a true friend who is loyal, compassion and honest to me then having so called fake friends! Her best friend is a loyal friend stay being friends with her those’s girls will not stay loyal for long!
This was so sad. Kellie Martin nailed it in her performance. She made you feel sorry for her and i adored her family. So sweet. Felt sorry for Angela as well as the girl who died. Such a sad sad story. I hope there was forgiveness at some point in their lives both families that is.
This is so much better than these stupid re makes.. like The Elm films… NOTHING could beat the originals.!! Apprently Tori Spelling hated her looks and had real bad issues with it despite herdads fame and riches., bless her. I adore Marley Shelton too
This is such a thoughtful film about the agonies of being a teenager. That angst to be in the "in crowd" doesn't always disappear even when people leave their teenage years behind. It's such a good thing when people finally stop caring about all that stuff. I didn't agree with the judge's view about the court case being unnecessary because no matter who (or how unpleasant) the murder victim was, like all victim's families, their family deserve answers.
He didn't say it was unnecessary in that way - he meant that the sentence was the same for 1st degree as it was for 2nd degree so there was no point in going to trial. she confessed so waste of money to hold the trial for same sentence
She was but Angela was incredibly annoying at the beginning and then transformed in a disturbed and obsessed individual that needed psychiatric help... You don't just kill someone because they do not want you as their friend! You also do not stalk them and scare the bejesus out of them. Nowaday she would be considered a stalker.
@@kitty_s23456it unfair hold something against someone for something they did as a teen. I don't condone this behavior but it is typical teen behavior. At a ceartin age you are immature and don't know any better . Had Kirsten not been robbed of a chance of growing up she might have matured and realized that behavior was not right
That girl for me had everything (Angela)..good parents..an amazing friend (Jill)who needs more? she was smart, beautiful..she didn't need that girl with the bad attitude(maybe her parents should teach her to be more kind with the other people)ofc I don't think anyone wanted her to die),..it's so sad😢 Angela could do so much with her life...
i hate the message the headteacher was sending to the students you can imagine he had his prime time in high school and he was reliving his glory years as head teacher
Yeah, being second best isn't good enough? So, a kid comes home from school and tells him mom he got a "B" in math and his mom says, "Good for you" and the son says "Nah ma, I'm a loser, the principal said second best isn't good enough."😢🙄
People always say Stacy deserved it because she bullied Angela. The irony is, Stacy never really bullied Angela. She just tolerated her but aside from as few snide comments, Stacy didn't do anything to Angela. She even accepted Angela's fake invitation. Angela rarely stood up for Monica when she was being bullied, she allowed Monica to take the blame and be harassed out of school. And if Stacy had accepted Angela, she'd be happy to be part of the cool clique and laugh at Stacy's nasty comments. She's no saint.
Oh, my, the story of being popular at the cost of those who arent. My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered from a situation like this. What a sad story.
Yep, she went from playing sweet and kind hearted popular girl in Beverly Hills 90210 to a bitchy popular girl in this film, though I think Tori recorded this film whilst in Beverly Hills 90210, judging from the year this film was made
I was the most popular girl in my high school and I ended up a junkie for 12 years. But even though I was popular, I never ever ever bullied anyone or made fun of ppl. I was very good looking in school and had a lot of lads that fancied me, so In Order for them to get in my good books lol, I would make them hit bullies or a least threaten the bullies not to be mean to other kids. I wasn’t a bitch popular girl I was popular and nice to everyone, everyone used to say, Jess is so nice and pretty. Yes I was nice but also naive and after meeting an older boy wen I was 16, he got me into heroin and crack. And took me 12 years to get off it. I’ve been clean 2 years but I’m still on 60ml of methadone daily and probably wil be for rest of my life. I once walked into my pharmacy and the new pharmacist was a quiet girl i went to school with, she showed me nothing but respect wen she knew what I was there, because I was kind to her in school. Xx
@@katiecurrie9709 It's a sad fact that bullies operate in groups of 3 or more --- get a bully in a corner on his/her own and they'll crumble because they're cowards.
I’m sorry but the cheerleader and her friends weren’t the nicest but Angela was an unhappy lost soul who seemed validation from the wrong people. Normal bully victims can’t even go on with their day without being attacked for being them. Angela was forcing herself into crowds when all she needed to do is be content with her life and the wonderful people around her. She’s a pyscho
I feel they casted based on personalities not really looks. Kellie comes across as naive , impressionable while tori has this obnoxious air around her.
I just finished the 2019 remake of this movie and I’ve come to watch the original. I still feel so bad for Kirsten Costas I can’t imagine what she must of been feeling in that moment 😢poor girl didn’t deserve that at all may she rest in peace just shows what pressure some teens are under to be “perfect” I do feel sad for for Bernadette Protti she seemed like a very sick kid that needed help and had so much pressure to be perfect but that doesn’t give her the right to kill an innocent kid such a heartbreaking case ALL OF IT
This was a good film. I remember those school days when being popular was everything. This was just a sad state of affairs. I wonder what she's doing with her life now.
I watched this movie when I was really young with my mom and last year I watched a french youtuber explaining the Kirsten Costas case and I know it seemed familiar but I couldn't remember it. I really loved this movie but watching the murderer getting portrayed as the actual victim kinda make me mad because she wasn’t and she should still be in prison...
SPOILER ALERT !!! The only person who was responsible for what happened here was the girl who took a life. It's understandable that she was humiliated & that she could certainly look forward to brutal teasing once she returned to school. None of that mitigates what she did. She made the decision to use that knife, she made the decision to kill that girl, she followed her home when a perfect stranger was attempting to help. She had plenty of time to think through her actions. If she was capable of planning the murder & seeing it thru to avoid the humiliation of that bully then she was with it enough to make another plan & just drive herself home. She stabbed her repeatedly with the intent to kill & them ran away without attempting to help at all.She was unbalanced, incredibly intense & knew at all times that she'd done wrong.
For heavens sakes u dont have to kill, just dont fall in with the wrong crowed. Tis all. I fell in with so many wrong crowds and im happy i did because now i understand more about how personalities work and now i can recognise very easily who is right for me and who is completely terrible and the worst i ever did to my annoying loud and mean "friend" was dumping her and ive grown happier and i think so has she, and nobody was hurt in the long run. Simple.
@clearsky4003 this is what my perspective was of her. She probably also had her other perspectives about me. I'm not saying I'm perfect. All I was pointing out, was that she was bad for me. I didn't say she was bad. And I was probably bad for her, I don't know at all how she saw me. I'm not in her shoes. However the reason y I broke up with her was precisely because I didn't want to be around her anymore. I'm not just saying she was terrible and I was completely right as a friend. I'm just saying, she hurt me alot and I was exhausted and unhappy around her, so rightfully so, I dumped her. I don't have to stay with someone I'm unhappy with.
I hate how inaccurate this movie is. A lack of respect to the victim and her family. It has been proved that Kirsten (the victim, the cheerleader) was not a bully! The bully was Bernadette (the killer), she was OBSSESED with the victim and she bullied her constantly. This was constatated by their classmates. This movie is a SHAME.
Let's say it was your daughter or realative that was killed ,would you still feel sorry for this WICKED teenager killer? There is no excuse! Eye for an eye!
Couldn’t agree with you more. I think people forget that the actual victim’s in this are obviously the girl herself but also her family who will always suffer because they’ll never get to see their daughter/sister etc again. As a mother I also can’t imagine how many times her parents would have tortured themselves with imagining how much pain their child went through being stabbed several times. The Stacey character was definitely a class A bitch and I could definitely understand people not having any sympathy if she’d been given a good beating by someone she was bullying or had bullied in the past, but to stab someone over and over and take their life because they don’t particularly like you or want to be your friend is a pretty extreme reaction that thankfully not many of us would or could ever do to another person no matter how angry, let down or humiliated we felt. For most of us it’s just not in our make up. (Unless my children were under threat of harm from someone🐻) As much as I detest bullying I don’t think the punishment here in any way fit the crime. Also remember that not long before she stabbed and killed her Angela had just been telling Stacey how much she admired her and really wished she was like her. She knew how badly Stacey treated people so why would she idolise her and what kind of person did that make Angela? She didn’t lose it with her due to anger over the merciless bullying of Monika or any other girls she killed her because of her own rage that she couldn’t force Stacey to like her and knew she would never accept her as a friend or an equal. Sad story all round but there’s only one person from it who will never get the chance to have possibly changed and became a better person.
No one has mentioned the disgusting twisting of words and threat and accusation to have Angela labeled as a lesbian which at that time was a social death sentence to which I'm sure many teenagers have committed suicide because of that. Angela saw that accusation however false it was as a death sentence at that minute and really went insane when unfortunately her hand fell on the handle of the knife. Her rage at the cruelty of this girl actually mostly to others and Angela's immature comprehension of subtle rules and in the end not realize that the friend she sought was not worth her time. It is most unfortunate that she was not accepted to the staff of the school newspaper.
I was shocked when i found out that this movie was based on a true story. The fact that Bernadette Protti (Angela) was released, changed her name and started her own family is so unfair. Kirsten Costas (Stacey) is still dead and she will never get her second chance.
Maybe in her next life she won't be a bully karma gets you in many shapes and form. People alt to teach their kids not to bully. Not that I condone what this girl did to this bully but karma can get ya
I didn't feel sorry for Angela in the slightest. She had a wonderful friend in Jill and a loving supportive family. Yet she was obsessed and admired the awful bitchy cruel nasty Stacy and her followers. Stacy was a total cow but didn't deserve to die, Angela should have cherished Jill and ignored the mean girls. The fact she only served 7 years was an abomination. ( Based on the murder of Kirsten Costas by Bernadette Protti ).
I think Stacey was jealous of Monica, they were friends at one point because at the beginning while sitting on grass and Stacey is telling that stupid story, they asked Stacey what happened to her and Stacey says idk and looks sad, so at some point Monica went goth and had the freedom and courage to step outside the norm and look how she wanted while Stacey clearly had to stay bound to social standards of HS heirachy and expectations of her rich parents, and she doesnt want lose her top dog position to one of her minions, that wouldn't end well that would mean exile from the popular group and then you got Ang who was so deperate to be a minion, to the point of being annoying and forcing a friendship thats never going to happen, she's everywhere Stacey goes, she's obsessed and stalkerish
When evil people chose to be cruel, they make the choice, the people their cruel to don't make the choice, I have no sympathy for bullies when the get karna. Their victi s are affected for life.
Yes, kids can be mean - I was relentlessly teased throughout my childhood about a lot of things I wasn't pretty confident or popular and the mean kids mentally scar you for the rest of your life! I was picked on from age 4 - 17 and it doesn't leave you I'm 48 now and still think of cruel kids and sometimes I get weird looks off people in the street now but I have learnt to ignore it, I am a sweet person is all that matters not my looks!!🙂
@@angelasmithson5291I was bullied from a very little girl until I left school I wasn’t invited to the parties chosen in sports and you can guess the rest and I now and again like you think of how the bullies lives are now I don’t hate them I just hope that none of their children get such treatment because then they’d know how we felt and I wouldn’t want that for any child if I see any of my childhood bullies I ignore them because they aren’t worth my time but if they was to say sorry I would forgive them because I’m the bigger person I’m 52 and rebuilt my life and it’s a happy one with a wonderful husband and children and yes I taught my children never to be bullies else they would have me to deal with and they never have I hope you are well and doing alright now
@@mytye Hey!! I am doing great thanks - hope you are well too and thankyou for your kind words!! I am so pleased you have a nice family and yes, I too have learnt to be a bigger person and try to focus on the good people I meet - they are out there not everyone is cruel, we should treat each other with dignity and respect!!🙏😀
@@angelasmithson5291 absolutely we should else we make ourselves just as bad I’m glad your alright and are getting on with life I totally understand where your coming from bullying effects us both mentally and emotionally doesn’t it but because we’ve lived it we can talk about our experiences and how to deal with it to others and make new friends as we go yes there’s a lot of lovely people out there and by the sounds of it your one of them!! 🤗
Great movie! There was a story of a young asian girl who killed her friend because she kept insulting her calling her fat. The lesson, watch what you say, there is danger in speaking nasty words.😮
Why is this movie so quick to want to paint Angela as victim? Like yes Stacey wasn't the best person (though throughout my years of watching mean girls in movies her actions are somewhere near the lower middle in terms of cruelty) but she didn't deserve to be murdered especially in that way. The Larks had very understandable if intense reactions to her death and this movie acts like they're hades hounds. Also Monica wasn't a suspect because she was a goth but because she threatened to kill her multiple times in public.
Hace poco la productora Lifetime saco una versión de lo que ocurrió en el año 1984 se llama igual que la película una chica que mata a una compañera en el colegio basada en un caso real y Kelly Martín es la detective del caso fue muy impactante el caso de la chica no se lo merecía
I can realte to Angela very much during my HS years. I understand her being hurt and well she was mean. What she did was very wrong well i can understand people do things under a moment but she got off very easy. But she did seem like she felt very bad for what she did. Knew what she did was wrong. Being popular isn't everything.
Being popular in highschool isn’t worth it. Most of them stay the same after highschool. A lot of the unpopular kids end up surpassing them. Be yourself
I agree!!!
What about the old lady that saw Angela Dellvecchio at the hospital. What's that all about
Life goes on and they stay the same
Agree. All they ever are is fluff
@@user-ef7zm2yk8oi think she was just nuts but of course Angela was feeling guilty so she presumed the old woman saw something.. well thats my theory. It was stupid though
This movie should be shown to teens out there in order for them to see the cruelty of materialism, peer pressure and bullying. If you can't be pretty, popular and rich, then focus on your studies and be satisfied with what you have. Everyone is special in their own way.
Though I agree, I must be realistic and say that it's not that easy as you put it. Children can't just 'focus on their studies and be grateful for what they have'. They are going through deep rooted emotional problems that needs to be addressed through counselling (not peer counselling, btw).
As someone who had a couple counselors through my years of education, I can safely attest that it does not help. Therapy is what is needed.
Too much pressure on yuong people Even olet people are humans so...
@Donnell Okafor exactly. And prioritise your education.
This should be shown to the Kardashians and their kids . That family has single handily botched an entire generation of morals and physically
I’ve seen this movie so many times I can’t get enough of 90s lifetime movies
The best
One of the best Tori Spelling movies from the 90s.
Any others you could recommend?
1st time I ever hear of this story but I'm not surprised! The popular thing with teenagers's too much in the states's highschools....to my opinion, where the most popular bully the other kids.
@@HaramXLI am adding this one to my playlist "Based on True Story". I also have a "Truthful Fiction" playlist. Lots of great movies on them both, and I'm still adding to them, check them out❤
I don't understand why Angela was so fixated on becoming friends with Stacey when she had a genuine friend like Gill. Angela even minimised Stacey's bullying of Monica, "oh, she's just being funny." I wonder, if Stacey had have accepted Angela fully as her friend, would she have been happily coerced into bullying Monica as well?
This was the 80s, where topics like the excesses of materialism and competitivity, as well as bullying, were not as discussed and known as they are today
Maybe she would have turned on Gill too.
Angela was so obsessed because in the teenagers world, you sometimes happen to take bad examples and admire the wrong persons...Stacey was the typical popular bitchy badass Miss Popularity queen I feel there are popular girls like Stacey, and they are dominant, so the majority of shy girls wants to act like her, be like her etc.... bad society prototypes and at that age you see them as Gods , but after 20 yrs maybe u remember them and u laugh
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I have seen this movie more times than I can count. Also followed the actual case that inspired this movie. It's so sad how this young girl ruined her life all in an attempt to belong.
Teenage pressure is the worst type of pressure because you don't know better. I put myself under such demanding academic pressure to please my father that I nearly ruined my life. When you make a mistake it feels like the sky is falling in. It feels like the world is ending. I had a friend in the same high achieving class who attempted suicide because she didnt get the score she wanted.
I didn't understand it as this girl had a loving family which is very important when growing up.
Didn't realize it was based on real events, but no surprise...yes, pressures are enormous - ironically enough - Switzerland and Japan has highest percentage of suicides by young adults, students...
she was so maddening in this, like a Stacy stalker..Kelli M..sometimes get those parts were it makes her look like a real idiot!
@@Ace-ke7fqThank you! I found Kellie M completely irritating in this movie! Happy to know that it's not just me with this opinion...x
Seen this film so many times over the years. I first watched it as a teenager and could relate to Angela so much because I was a bit of an outcast myself not having the latest brand name items and not having much money. High school can be really tough. The scene where Angela's mother comes to get her at school always gets me. It always gets me when she says ''Don't hate me Mom''. It's a very good movie and I think a lot of teenagers would benefit from watching it. I wish I could tell teens that are going through bullying and feelings of being cast out, that high school doesn't last forever and you will be out of that situation and moved on to better things.
Yup, as soon as I left school and went to work most of my insecurities I had in school went away!
@@izzydeadyet7336 The 27 popular lies of this world:
lets analyse the lies which are world wide believed and origin from masons:
lie: schools are of use (fact. schools keep slavery alive and stands for dumbing down the population of mankind)
lie: moon and mars landings, (fact: even masons know they cannot leave - earth is closed system, unless you want to drown, there is no other place created for us to live in.)
lie: news channels share truth (fact: these are for politic propaganda)
lie: voting matters (fact: politic propaganda)
lie: money has a value of its own (fact: it is just a tool of this world, which value has been agreed upon world wide, it should be not loved, only used as needed.)
lie: NASA lies (globe and all....) (fact: NASA stands for TO DECEIVE and 2 members expose their own lies, one is still alive, the other (Wernher Von Braun) place a clear clue on his own gravestone) - you havn´t searched - have you?
lie: the lgbtq++++ propaganda (fact: it is a part of masonry depopulation agenda, 500 000 000 souls, thats their goal - Georgia Guidestones! - who said it be worthy to forget?)
lie: Evolution and the dinosaurs. (fact: mankind is not hybrid kind)
to keep stating that there was an evolution, then we ain´t humans, we aint then mankind, we are then hybrids. Are you a hybrid?
Lie: holidays (xmas, Halloween, new year eve and so on) (fact: PAGAN HOLIDAYS, to praise BAAL, the god of this world)
lie: U.F.Os (fact: they are demons/evil spirits in high places, against whom we fight daily = spiritual warfare)
lie: rules and laws rule the world (fact: signs and symbols of masonry do)
lie: believe in being educated (fact: found daily living with the lack of knowledge)
lie: religions are ways to heaven (fact: JESUS CHRIST is only way to heaven. Religions, no matter its name = masonic garbage)
lie: our dead loved ones stay around to “ghost” (fact: hunting and ghosting is job of demons, not of humans. We, humans, come from GOD and return back to HIM and all the stories of having been seen a ghost - terrifying, scary, dark, cold - again no job of analysing been done here by you- right?)
Lie: Humans have no immune system and we need vaccines as these save lives (fact: humans HAVE IMMUNE SYSTEM and vaccines are created for one or two purpose: to kill or to cripple. If you took all their poison shots then later in life comes all kinds of medical diagnoses = vaccines crippled you - remember that)
lie: there is no GOD (fact: There is GOD, who redeems sinners and created us directly from the dust of the earth: Psalms 139:14 (KJV)
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.)
to keep claiming that there is no GOD and we aint created directly from the dust of the earth, we soon run out logic, regardless to we place “evolution” in our claims or not and our dead, whats happening to them as they sleep in their graves? - they decay away, becoming the dust form which they were taken, if it ain`t so then we are simply reality deniers.
lie: 911 was terror attack (fact: 911 was an inside job, meaning the work of your loved government)
lie: TV watching is of use (fact: television (TV) = tell a lie vision, a weapon for our minds, keeping it under MK ULTRA)
half lie/half truth: earth is a stage where everyone plays rolls (fact: earth is stage, a freemasonry checkerboard, where both side, black and white are masons and humans both in politics and regular souls = the naive public gets daily played)
lie: children are government to raise (fact: children are parents to raise, it takes 2 to make them, it takes 2 to raise them).
Lie: we live already in the matrix (fact: we live since birth in BABYLON which is to become “matrix” as Man - us, must merge with machine aka take the mark of the beast and then matrix aka false reality becomes to be 100%)
lie: humans are not intelligent enough (fact: it is forgotten fact, we all are intelligent, many have suffered the illness from this world, being indoctrinated by masons, cause who give us the school system which we have? masons did, because they need slaves).
Lie: love is low standard and = lust (fact love is high standard as love means>
John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Lie> do what thy wilt there is no body who has the right to judge you (fact> GOD SHALL JUDGE YOU AFTER YOU HAVE DEPARTED ON EARTH and Christians are also called to give out righteous judgment, therefore repent * born again * go and sin no more)
lie: slavery is over (fact: slavery was never over, it just changes a little as we are no longer buy`d or sold, still prepared through school systems for our future slavery, succumb to our slave lives based on our free will)
lie: BIBLE is man written and a fairytale (fact: BIBLE is written by GOD, through man, bible is not fairytale.
BIBLE IS:
BASIC
INFORMATION/instruction
BEFORE
LEAVING
EARTH
= BIBLE. A book - yes, book which we all need as it is only one filled with information and instructions we all need for life on earth.
Lie: Miss beauty contests around the world is about beauty of FEMALES (fact: these contests are about beauty of MALES IN DRAG)
lie: Medical “virus” known as COVID 19 (facts: real VIRUSES are in Hollywood and kept secret:
- THE TTM virus = being tare, trans, mason.
27 lies, should i go on?
This world ain´t deceived, out there to deceive?
I feel sorry for her because she really felt lonely and invisible.
I’m sorry but the cheerleader and her friends weren’t the nicest but Angela was an unhappy lost soul who seemed validation from the wrong people. Normal bully victims can’t even go on with their day without being attacked for being them. Angela was forcing herself into crowds when all she needed to do is be content with her life and the wonderful people around her. She’s a pyscho
@@clearsky4003 I’m commenting on a murderer I did not make these comments before that and I am also not a criminal lol
The actors did an amazing job! Great message with valuable lessons to learn and take away. To be popular doesn’t mean that you have to be an abusive bully, parents, teachers and principal should have been more aware but kids don’t make this easy; kids keep secrets to avoid humiliation from their school peers, they are afraid to be their true selves to avoid being bullied. Toxic behaviour is deadly and it needs to stop!
And it sometimes doesn’t stop after highschool
@@BriaBarrowstrue they take it with them their whole life I also was been bullied and discriminated on high school and I still think of it and how bad I want to hurt them being so mean to me and it bothers me because it happens still to other innocent teenagers
@@BriaBarrows It's my case.The shit race of Rufus Sewell didn't stop to bully me. He will be punished a day, yes I believe 😁
Well said.
Nope, that bush was CRAZY from the start. Ppl are wired from birth and she was set on pleasing other and not herself.
Even the teachers favoured the popular and pretty.
Even the teachers favoured the popular and pretty and rich! 🤷♀
@@jihanamir3199looooooool 🤣
Angela was extremely insecure and wanted to be liked by Stacey so bad.!
I wish she just dealt with her insecurities instead of killing that girl .
Just a sad situation over all
I thought she was a writer in the movie. Maybe she could have written her feelings out in a journal. When I was a teenager I wrote songs about feeling unpopular (and sung them while playing the guitar also).
I was so the Ange of high school, didnt get into a play i auditioned for & the sports team i wanted to be in, my parents did their best but didnt have alot of money so was made fun of my clothing & wanted desperately to fit in with the popular girls who just rejected me. Im not saying theres any excuse for murder but completely understand the frustration, being disheartened & feeling like a failure. I would love to go back in time and tell my young self none of that stuff mattered!
This movie was part of the frog in the water affect. The beginning of passing the blame. Yes, she lived with pressure to fit in. Millions of kids have. But she went too far. She killed someone in anger. Her actions were wrong and she had to face the consequences. Millions of kids chose NOT to kill despite facing similar or worse situations,
No, a lot just kill themselves. So why aren't the ones responsible for that punished? The ones who drive them over the edge.
Exactly. Especially when Stacey didn't do anything wrong. It's Angela that was obsessed with popularity. Can't believe some people make killer out to be a victim
Agree! unfortunately she only faced seven years. I'm not hard core for life long imprisonment of 'crime of passion' teen killers but come on
I think we all experienced this kind of separation of the “popular” and “unpopular” in school, but nah this was 😩 Angela honestly never stood a chance because they put so much emphasis on popularity and beauty in the school. She felt like a loser. There needed to be more clubs for students who weren’t popular, but the school didn’t help because they set the standard for what they thought was “the best”
If the principal of the school is lecturing the student body that being 2nd best isn't good enough, he's in the wrong profession.
@@isabellind1292 Seriously! That wouldn't go nowadays.
Very sad movie... But the reality is that the society puts such pressure on the kids... It should not be to be the best, but do your best. That should be the emphasis. Kids should be taught that each one is gifted in some way and they must be encouraged to find their gifts and capitalize on them. They must be taught to respect everyone and not bully them. This is our responsibility as the community, society, school, church and home.
True. Do your best. Not be the best. 🙏💯
Also most people don’t actually like the popular girl their just scared to be disliked by her
Seriously
Yeah depending on where shes horrible or nice, the popular girl at my middle school was a bully, so people would try and be her friend so as not to the target of her “jokes” even now in my 40s I remember it vividly…….. girls can be very cruel
Kellie Martin was one hell of an actress in this movie. I think Tori Spelling was perfect for her role. My two favourite characters were Jill, the bohemian type and Monika the individualist. In Canada where I live, the two latter characters are usually academics or involved in the arts. They are not seen as weirdos.
Tori played this role a little too well, lol
Kathryn Morris was brilliant in the role of Monica. Even earlier in her career she made an impact even with limited screen time. Superb actress. Monica was for me the most attractive, compelling and interesting of the girls there because she had her own personality.
I was so happy to read that Kellie Martin (47) has been happily married for 25 yrs w/two children. She has a degree in Art History, owns & operates a toy store, has authored a book and is very involved in animal causes. I saw a picture of her w/her family, surrounded by what must be their pet goats and they are a beautiful family.💓
@@BriaBarrowsbecause she was known to be a bitch irl- esp when she was younger. Mainly because of who her dad was.
True.
Tbh I don't quite like Angie's demeanor. Everyone has a specific vibe, style and body type but Angie is obviously dorky, with a grandma fashion sense and timid body language. I'm not saying she is inferior and the other girls are better. I'm just saying there is room for improvement for Angie and it takes time and effort (to learn about style, and to be fit). She is forcing herself to a circle that she doesn't belong to. And when she doesn't get what she wants, she lashes out? She is not all that innocent. Also the way Angie is obsessed with Stacey is alarming. You can be angry, disappointed and all that but when you stab someone who is defenceless, you are a monster. Don't tell me she is not secretly jealous of Stacey.
Just providing a different perspective.
Nicely said. I totally agree ❤
It was a great movie and very good lesson to our children and I hope they will watch this movie. ....thanks for sharing 👌👍👍👍
Unfortunately UK schools are going the same way as US schools…proms were not a thing here back in the 70s/80s…now it’s all about the ‘prom’ nothing about the hard work… it’s all about being pretty and popular 😢
T.v. Has a LOT to answer for!
Brattishness and American invention infecting UK through t.v.!
No one deserves to die for being a bully, but they sure deserve to be put in their place. The girl from the true story was a bully, but that usually comes with being pretty and popular. She should have faced the consequences of her actions, death was not the answer. But everyone also knows that attitude first comes from what you see at home, the parents in this movie sure think highly of themselves and of Stacey, they believe that no rules apply to them or their daughter because they are rich, beautiful and successful. Think again.
such the biggest bully, the best ending would of been put in her place as it looks like no one wanted to stand up to her, if you think to Mean Girls she was put in her place finally by Katy and Janice, they all agreed not to back stab and just accept each other
Well not everyone who is popular or pretty is a bully
@@CurvyCass1982 Unfortunately for the most part they are, it just comes with being praised and thus thinking that you are better than everyone else. I have met a few though who were really kind but that is a minority nowadays.
@@kat.5927 true and same. A few of the popular girls were nice at my school, the rest...not so much.
It's wierd I'm so soft hearted but while watching this I didn't feel sorry for the death of Stacey at all
Absolutely amazing movie. The central themes run very deep and are more applicable today than ever before.
The character of Angela was so well played. You start to feel sorry for her. Because deep down we've all struggled with wanting to be accepted.
But you then forget. The evil crime she actually committed and continued to make excuses for.
And I'm so sure Kirsten's actual family don't see her as this poor little girl.
Omg, I needed a lot of time to process that this is the reality of social order in American high schools and colleges. So superficial, primitive, sad and shocking...🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
The movie teaches us a valuable lesson, never talk to the cops !!!
😂 You’re right.
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I cant blame Kristen for not wanting to be friends with Bernadette. She was crazy
She had a good family and a good friend.
Yes she did. A beautiful family and a truly good friend. I felt the pain for all involved
Right! Jill was a better friend to her than she was to her, Jill always tried to build her up and support her and all Ang did in return was sulk in self pity and talk about Stacey and conspire, and try to force her way in to a place she didnt belong, she wasnt a friend to Jill at all, she'd dump Jill so quick without a thought if her opportunity to be apart of Stacey's circle came up, Ang is incredibly self centered, I feel the most sorry for for the parents on both sides and Jill and Monica
Everybody going on about poor Angela’s family being skint etc and her not having the best of things .. jeez ! What about the other girl they refer to as “witch” that poor girl probably took crap every day. Personal and disgusting abuse , yet she doesn’t plunge a knife into a girls back. Monica took the crap for the murder for a while and if Angela could have gotten away with it she probably never would have came clean. She knew the cops were homing in on her . Whilst bullying is vile and Stacy’s mind and childish behavior is not acceptable , murder is not to be sympathized .
Angela had a loving family , nice home and her health.
Love these movies though!
The main girl is a good actress. Good movie, thank you
which one? Kelly or Toni? They were pretty well known at the time. Valerie Harper is playing a bit part as mom, but she was way more famous that any of them! Tori Spelling just had a rich daddy, who tried to make roles for her to play.
@@lisawentworth6831 I assume they meant Kelly. Tori (not Toni) was in the movie just at the beginning of the movie...so I wouldn't call her a main girl.
@@lisawentworth6831 I think Tori is a much better actress overall then Kelly was at that time.
Brilliant movie, loved it.
Great cast and acting !!!
1:02:37 James Avery known as Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, great actor / legend. RIP ❤️🙏❤️
Thank you for downloading this.
(03/06/2023)
I love James Avery! Always a class act..and funny as Uncle Phil! 💖
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These types of movies breaks my heart......
A movie about acceptance into the popular group in school...oh dear...I remember it all as well..but this was real nasty stuff and pathetic, too. Pity, popularity doesn't mean stepping on someone's toes. Did she deserve to die? Hmmm ..some say yes.....but who are we to be judge, jury and executioner?! Think about it. The world is a horrible place only if you let the world get to you. Be yourself, love yourself. That's important. Respect yourself then only will others respect you.
Real talk
Well said
welk said...and don't be obsessed with what others have
There is no excuse for murder no matter how you feel towards a person even thoure you are dealing with a bully u.k
think she was a very unstable person with mental issues and that is does not matter she would have killed someone sooner or later ,
We don't care !!!! @@divawendy
@@mariamyaka6363 nobody asked you to 🤣🤣
I was never popular in high school, but I've always blended in with the popular girls for some reason, & we weren't mean to other peers. They're still my friends, even though we're miles apart. I think being confident & loving yourself is one of the keys 😅
Yes when I look back and think of popular girls from my youth they weren’t mean just a confidence I wish I had . I was friendly with them but not one of them . Having confidence from young age is a huge help
The truth is: Angela (Bernadette Protti) planned the murder of Stacy (Kristen Costas) from the beginning. Bernadette made an anonymous call to Kristen's mother from a public phone and told her she wanted to invite Kristen to a party. It was an ambush. Bernadette was wearing a t-shirt and pants the night she killed Kristen because she had no intention to go to any party. She drove to a church station and then said or did something that scared Kristen, and Kristen run out of the car. Then, Kristen got a house and knocked asking if she could use the phone. The family guy offered to drive her home. Bernadette followed them. When Kristen was alone again Bernadette killed her with a knife of 45cm that she purposely brought with her.
Bernadette was envious and jealous because Kristen was everything she wanted to be.
No justification for murder. Movie was made to make us feel sorry for the murderer. The victims family must be devastated.
The parents were responsible of their daughter's education, they are responsible of her being killed as much as the killer
was....
@@karlheinz4265This is based on a true story and that is a very harsh thing to say. The family of the real victim has to live with that loss every day.
@@EmmaJC-ts9gu OK. Didn't know it was a true story. No matter what the victim was a bitch...
Well yeah should be sorry for the person that killed her , Stacey and her goonies led her to kill her
@@user-zt2nk9yr7t I’m talking about the actual case this was based on, not Stacey.
I rather have a true friend who is loyal, compassion and honest to me then having so called fake friends! Her best friend is a loyal friend stay being friends with her those’s girls will not stay loyal for long!
7 years, foe killing a girl. What a joke....
This was so sad. Kellie Martin nailed it in her performance. She made you feel sorry for her and i adored her family. So sweet. Felt sorry for Angela as well as the girl who died. Such a sad sad story. I hope there was forgiveness at some point in their lives both families that is.
I despise her ,she was miserable ungrateful and didn't appreciate her sister ,her friend nor family ,she is AWFUL
This is so much better than these stupid re makes.. like The Elm films… NOTHING could beat the originals.!! Apprently Tori Spelling hated her looks and had real bad issues with it despite herdads fame and riches., bless her. I adore Marley Shelton too
She hated her looks cause she is not pretty ,she simply knew that
Horse face
😂 but I was trying to be kind..
I liked Marley Shelton also - she performed well in A Secret Between Friends also.
America seems to have a very 'mean girl' school culture. Very sad.😢
This is such a thoughtful film about the agonies of being a teenager.
That angst to be in the "in crowd" doesn't always disappear even when people leave their teenage years behind.
It's such a good thing when people finally stop caring about all that stuff.
I didn't agree with the judge's view about the court case being unnecessary because no matter who (or how unpleasant) the murder victim was, like all victim's families, their family deserve answers.
Grosse, point blank.
Dufus.
He didn't say it was unnecessary in that way - he meant that the sentence was the same for 1st degree as it was for 2nd degree so there was no point in going to trial. she confessed so waste of money to hold the trial for same sentence
Stacy was a terrible obnoxious teenager omg.
I went to school with a Stacy. 40 years later she's still a Stacy.
She was but Angela was incredibly annoying at the beginning and then transformed in a disturbed and obsessed individual that needed psychiatric help... You don't just kill someone because they do not want you as their friend! You also do not stalk them and scare the bejesus out of them. Nowaday she would be considered a stalker.
Angela is s psycho
Stacy was the "Regina George" of mean girls. The queen bee at the time. Mean girl, but she didn't deserve to die.
@@kitty_s23456it unfair hold something against someone for something they did as a teen. I don't condone this behavior but it is typical teen behavior. At a ceartin age you are immature and don't know any better . Had Kirsten not been robbed of a chance of growing up she might have matured and realized that behavior was not right
That girl for me had everything (Angela)..good parents..an amazing friend (Jill)who needs more? she was smart, beautiful..she didn't need that girl with the bad attitude(maybe her parents should teach her to be more kind with the other people)ofc I don't think anyone wanted her to die),..it's so sad😢 Angela could do so much with her life...
Jealousy in highest order !!! Stupid jealous girl! And few days after she plays hurt and unstable.. no, she was not ! She was so jealous!!
I love you for saying this. Nothing worse than a jealous girl
Really I hate this Angela.
@clearsky4003 Lol but I don't care
i hate the message the headteacher was sending to the students you can imagine he had his prime time in high school and he was reliving his glory years as head teacher
Yeah, being second best isn't good enough? So, a kid comes home from school and tells him mom he got a "B" in math and his mom says, "Good for you" and the son says "Nah ma, I'm a loser, the principal said second best isn't good enough."😢🙄
People always say Stacy deserved it because she bullied Angela. The irony is, Stacy never really bullied Angela. She just tolerated her but aside from as few snide comments, Stacy didn't do anything to Angela. She even accepted Angela's fake invitation.
Angela rarely stood up for Monica when she was being bullied, she allowed Monica to take the blame and be harassed out of school. And if Stacy had accepted Angela, she'd be happy to be part of the cool clique and laugh at Stacy's nasty comments. She's no saint.
I think Angela would have also turned on Gill, had Stacey been more accepting of the friendship Angela so desperately wanted.
All the best actors came together here thank you for sharing this very important movie ❤
Oh, my, the story of being popular at the cost of those who arent. My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered from a situation like this. What a sad story.
Great movie with Tori Spelling👌🏼
Yep, she went from playing sweet and kind hearted popular girl in Beverly Hills 90210 to a bitchy popular girl in this film, though I think Tori recorded this film whilst in Beverly Hills 90210, judging from the year this film was made
That girl was nuts from the very beginning!
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I was the most popular girl in my high school and I ended up a junkie for 12 years. But even though I was popular, I never ever ever bullied anyone or made fun of ppl. I was very good looking in school and had a lot of lads that fancied me, so In Order for them to get in my good books lol, I would make them hit bullies or a least threaten the bullies not to be mean to other kids. I wasn’t a bitch popular girl I was popular and nice to everyone, everyone used to say, Jess is so nice and pretty. Yes I was nice but also naive and after meeting an older boy wen I was 16, he got me into heroin and crack. And took me 12 years to get off it. I’ve been clean 2 years but I’m still on 60ml of methadone daily and probably wil be for rest of my life. I once walked into my pharmacy and the new pharmacist was a quiet girl i went to school with, she showed me nothing but respect wen she knew what I was there, because I was kind to her in school. Xx
Well said, Jess. I hope you continue to do well. Take care.
Crazy the whole time Stacy saw angela as a threat as soon as she died she became the popular girl
A very good motivational movie to watch based on actual events...
I guess if she had key to go in her house she would be alive
Didn't realise this was a true story. All I can say is: There's no room for bullies on this planet.
I HATE BULLIES
@@katiecurrie9709 It's a sad fact that bullies operate in groups of 3 or more --- get a bully in a corner on his/her own and they'll crumble because they're cowards.
@@miladydewinter7770she wasn't a bully ,Angela was DEMENTED
I’m sorry but the cheerleader and her friends weren’t the nicest but Angela was an unhappy lost soul who seemed validation from the wrong people. Normal bully victims can’t even go on with their day without being attacked for being them. Angela was forcing herself into crowds when all she needed to do is be content with her life and the wonderful people around her. She’s a pyscho
I was bullied at school and it was horrendous.
Slight miscasting here, Kellie Martin is very pretty and Tori Spelling is as plain as they come.
The complete antithesis of the real event.
I feel they casted based on personalities not really looks. Kellie comes across as naive , impressionable while tori has this obnoxious air around her.
That stacey looks like she is 35 years old not in high school.
Don't Bully, eventually that person you are bullying will snap.
Seen this movie years ago, but good to watch again
I just finished the 2019 remake of this movie and I’ve come to watch the original. I still feel so bad for Kirsten Costas I can’t imagine what she must of been feeling in that moment 😢poor girl didn’t deserve that at all may she rest in peace
just shows what pressure some teens are under to be “perfect” I do feel sad for for Bernadette Protti she seemed like a very sick kid that needed help and had so much pressure to be perfect but that doesn’t give her the right to kill an innocent kid such a heartbreaking case ALL OF IT
She didn’t deserve it but she was evil as hell
What is the title of the remake?
@Bria Barrows she definitely was evil.
The remake was trash
@Bria Barrows yeah, I watched it yesterday. Utter rubbish.
Good film and I have to be biased to my Swedish Volvo 740. That make was so popular back then
This was a good film. I remember those school days when being popular was everything. This was just a sad state of affairs. I wonder what she's doing with her life now.
The parents 💔
I watched this movie when I was really young with my mom and last year I watched a french youtuber explaining the Kirsten Costas case and I know it seemed familiar but I couldn't remember it.
I really loved this movie but watching the murderer getting portrayed as the actual victim kinda make me mad because she wasn’t and she should still be in prison...
Was it McSkyz?
The principal was sick
i dont like the princeable very much he exspeceted to much from the kids in high school
This is just sad I pray that she rest in perfect peace
Tori spelling is such a good actress. I don’t know why she doesn’t continue to do lifetime movies
I agree! I like her in Beverly Hills too. I guess shes too busy in life with her husband and kids.
She has 5 kids, could be one reason why. Would be nice to see her act soon. Maybe on Netflix…
Probably because like many women in Hollywood they are passed over for younger versions of themselves.
She could use the work, her and her kids were living in a trailer shopping at walmart last news I heard of her
@@notimetodienttd1115they divorced and her and the kids are living in a trailer by the beach pretending they're on vacation! Google it
SPOILER ALERT !!!
The only person who was responsible for what happened here was the girl who took a life. It's understandable that she was humiliated & that she could certainly look forward to brutal teasing once she returned to school. None of that mitigates what she did. She made the decision to use that knife, she made the decision to kill that girl, she followed her home when a perfect stranger was attempting to help. She had plenty of time to think through her actions. If she was capable of planning the murder & seeing it thru to avoid the humiliation of that bully then she was with it enough to make another plan & just drive herself home. She stabbed her repeatedly with the intent to kill & them ran away without attempting to help at all.She was unbalanced, incredibly intense & knew at all times that she'd done wrong.
I honestly think she snapped and also had some underlying issues going on. Cause her obsession with Stacy was extreme
She was breaking down mentally
Nobody knows how this girl felt being humiliated buy this awful snob,but still no reason to murder
@@BriaBarrows both her and Tori Spelling's character had their own inner demons.
@@micoxlong5817she clearly had underlying issues which paired with bullying was a recipe for disaster
For heavens sakes u dont have to kill, just dont fall in with the wrong crowed.
Tis all.
I fell in with so many wrong crowds and im happy i did because now i understand more about how personalities work and now i can recognise very easily who is right for me and who is completely terrible and the worst i ever did to my annoying loud and mean "friend" was dumping her and ive grown happier and i think so has she, and nobody was hurt in the long run.
Simple.
Well explained 👏🏾👌🏾
@@JorgeDavid90. thank you
@clearsky4003 this is what my perspective was of her. She probably also had her other perspectives about me.
I'm not saying I'm perfect.
All I was pointing out, was that she was bad for me. I didn't say she was bad. And I was probably bad for her, I don't know at all how she saw me. I'm not in her shoes. However the reason y I broke up with her was precisely because I didn't want to be around her anymore. I'm not just saying she was terrible and I was completely right as a friend. I'm just saying, she hurt me alot and I was exhausted and unhappy around her, so rightfully so, I dumped her.
I don't have to stay with someone I'm unhappy with.
Tres bon film!Merci pour le partage! 😢🐞🦋🌹
I love this movie!!
I hate how inaccurate this movie is. A lack of respect to the victim and her family. It has been proved that Kirsten (the victim, the cheerleader) was not a bully! The bully was Bernadette (the killer), she was OBSSESED with the victim and she bullied her constantly. This was constatated by their classmates. This movie is a SHAME.
I would definitely switch schools cause this is hell
Tbf Stacey wouldn’t have even spoke to Angela if she had stopped trying to be around her, she had a lovely friend but was obsessed with being popular
James Avery RIP
Thanks for sharing this very good movie!
Let's say it was your daughter or realative that was killed ,would you still feel sorry for this WICKED teenager killer? There is no excuse! Eye for an eye!
Couldn’t agree with you more. I think people forget that the actual victim’s in this are obviously the girl herself but also her family who will always suffer because they’ll never get to see their daughter/sister etc again. As a mother I also can’t imagine how many times her parents would have tortured themselves with imagining how much pain their child went through being stabbed several times.
The Stacey character was definitely a class A bitch and I could definitely understand people not having any sympathy if she’d been given a good beating by someone she was bullying or had bullied in the past, but to stab someone over and over and take their life because they don’t particularly like you or want to be your friend is a pretty extreme reaction that thankfully not many of us would or could ever do to another person no matter how angry, let down or humiliated we felt. For most of us it’s just not in our make up. (Unless my children were under threat of harm from someone🐻)
As much as I detest bullying I don’t think the punishment here in any way fit the crime.
Also remember that not long before she stabbed and killed her Angela had just been telling Stacey how much she admired her and really wished she was like her. She knew how badly Stacey treated people so why would she idolise her and what kind of person did that make Angela? She didn’t lose it with her due to anger over the merciless bullying of Monika or any other girls she killed her because of her own rage that she couldn’t force Stacey to like her and knew she would never accept her as a friend or an equal. Sad story all round but there’s only one person from it who will never get the chance to have possibly changed and became a better person.
What if your daughter was the perpetrator at age 16 would you say eye for an eye still ?
Yes an eye for an eye
Good movie .
Cried watching this. Felt so sorry for Angela 🥺. I just wish she felt better about herself...
Great movie
Looking at the comments I can see a lot of people don’t know this is actually a true story. That’s what makes it even sadder. This is real
Tori spelling way back beverly hills 90210 great actress
No one has mentioned the disgusting twisting of words and threat and accusation to have Angela labeled as a lesbian which at that time was a social death sentence to which I'm sure many teenagers have committed suicide because of that. Angela saw that accusation however false it was as a death sentence at that minute and really went insane when unfortunately her hand fell on the handle of the knife. Her rage at the cruelty of this girl actually mostly to others and Angela's immature comprehension of subtle rules and in the end not realize that the friend she sought was not worth her time. It is most unfortunate that she was not accepted to the staff of the school newspaper.
I was shocked when i found out that this movie was based on a true story. The fact that Bernadette Protti (Angela) was released, changed her name and started her own family is so unfair. Kirsten Costas (Stacey) is still dead and she will never get her second chance.
Maybe in her next life she won't be a bully karma gets you in many shapes and form. People alt to teach their kids not to bully. Not that I condone what this girl did to this bully but karma can get ya
@@w_b_c3014Angela is a psycho and a demented person ,the popular girl WASN'T a bully
She was a bully but Angela is a murderer.
@@w_b_c3014 Telling a person you dont want to be friend with them does not make you a bully nor does it give a person a right to take youre life .
I didn't feel sorry for Angela in the slightest. She had a wonderful friend in Jill and a loving supportive family. Yet she was obsessed and admired the awful bitchy cruel nasty Stacy and her followers.
Stacy was a total cow but didn't deserve to die, Angela should have cherished Jill and ignored the mean girls.
The fact she only served 7 years was an abomination.
( Based on the murder of Kirsten Costas by Bernadette Protti ).
She was obsessed and inlove with Stacy
I think Stacey was obsessed with Monica.
I think Stacey was jealous of Monica, they were friends at one point because at the beginning while sitting on grass and Stacey is telling that stupid story, they asked Stacey what happened to her and Stacey says idk and looks sad, so at some point Monica went goth and had the freedom and courage to step outside the norm and look how she wanted while Stacey clearly had to stay bound to social standards of HS heirachy and expectations of her rich parents, and she doesnt want lose her top dog position to one of her minions, that wouldn't end well that would mean exile from the popular group and then you got Ang who was so deperate to be a minion, to the point of being annoying and forcing a friendship thats never going to happen, she's everywhere Stacey goes, she's
obsessed and stalkerish
When evil people chose to be cruel, they make the choice, the people their cruel to don't make the choice, I have no sympathy for bullies when the get karna. Their victi s are affected for life.
I agree. I never feel sorry for bullies.
Yes, kids can be mean - I was relentlessly teased throughout my childhood about a lot of things I wasn't pretty confident or popular and the mean kids mentally scar you for the rest of your life! I was picked on from age 4 - 17 and it doesn't leave you I'm 48 now and still think of cruel kids and sometimes I get weird looks off people in the street now but I have learnt to ignore it, I am a sweet person is all that matters not my looks!!🙂
@@angelasmithson5291I was bullied from a very little girl until I left school I wasn’t invited to the parties chosen in sports and you can guess the rest and I now and again like you think of how the bullies lives are now I don’t hate them I just hope that none of their children get such treatment because then they’d know how we felt and I wouldn’t want that for any child if I see any of my childhood bullies I ignore them because they aren’t worth my time but if they was to say sorry I would forgive them because I’m the bigger person I’m 52 and rebuilt my life and it’s a happy one with a wonderful husband and children and yes I taught my children never to be bullies else they would have me to deal with and they never have I hope you are well and doing alright now
@@mytye Hey!! I am doing great thanks - hope you are well too and thankyou for your kind words!! I am so pleased you have a nice family and yes, I too have learnt to be a bigger person and try to focus on the good people I meet - they are out there not everyone is cruel, we should treat each other with dignity and respect!!🙏😀
@@angelasmithson5291 absolutely we should else we make ourselves just as bad I’m glad your alright and are getting on with life I totally understand where your coming from bullying effects us both mentally and emotionally doesn’t it but because we’ve lived it we can talk about our experiences and how to deal with it to others and make new friends as we go yes there’s a lot of lovely people out there and by the sounds of it your one of them!! 🤗
Thankyou
I have always liked Valerie Harper...good movie thank you for the upload 😊
She should have just walked away, that's what I would have done!
looking back as an adult we think we should of done that but some kids are so desperate to fit in
Great movie! There was a story of a young asian girl who killed her friend because she kept insulting her calling her fat. The lesson, watch what you say, there is danger in speaking nasty words.😮
I watched Torry spelling in Beverly hills 90210 but I have never watched her in this movies
I hate jealous people.
Why is this movie so quick to want to paint Angela as victim? Like yes Stacey wasn't the best person (though throughout my years of watching mean girls in movies her actions are somewhere near the lower middle in terms of cruelty) but she didn't deserve to be murdered especially in that way. The Larks had very understandable if intense reactions to her death and this movie acts like they're hades hounds. Also Monica wasn't a suspect because she was a goth but because she threatened to kill her multiple times in public.
Something wrong with her from the start. Mental issues, emotional. Family structure maybe.
Hace poco la productora Lifetime saco una versión de lo que ocurrió en el año 1984 se llama igual que la película una chica que mata a una compañera en el colegio basada en un caso real y Kelly Martín es la detective del caso fue muy impactante el caso de la chica no se lo merecía
Recuerdo que vi esta pelicula en el año 1998 . Y hasta la vuelvo a vet
Thanks
I can realte to Angela very much during my HS years. I understand her being hurt and well she was mean. What she did was very wrong well i can understand people do things under a moment but she got off very easy. But she did seem like she felt very bad for what she did. Knew what she did was wrong. Being popular isn't everything.