Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Over the opening credits, cameras show a Southern California crime scene. The presence of a coroner confirms the arm we see is attached to a dead body...Five days earlier, grumpy high school student Nicole Gale Anderson (as Bianca) is mad because she can't go to a party and meet her boyfriend. Instead, she must have dinner at home with her mom Cynthia Gibb (as Jacqui) and a future step-father. While Anderson is at home and bored, boyfriend Reiley McClendon (as Chad) is charmed out of his pants by trampy Lindsay Taylor (as Dory). Anderson learns about the rum-fused incident and is understandably irked. Anderson, best friends Janet Montgomery (as Fallyn) and Stella Maeve (as Sarah) get into their skimpy bikinis, sit by the pool and decide to get even...She looks a little too old to be in high school, but Ms. Montgomery shows that, as usual, the villain gets the best part. Montgomery also looks like she could be Ms. Gibb's daughter. Anderson must look like her father. The characters are all stereotypes and there is no new ground to be found in "Accused at 17". The asthmatic best friend and African-American confidante are true to form. Men are attractive and secondary. The story is meant to fill space in an assigned TV Movie slot. Some of these formulaic dramas throw in subversion or go deliciously over-the-top. This one doesn't do anything unusual.**** Accused at 17 (12/5/09) Doug Campbell ~ Cynthia Gibb, Nicole Gale Anderson, Janet Montgomery, Stella Maeve

4/25/13 This movie was based on a true story. Some teenage girls actually did take another girl out and ended up killing her. The movie is a takeoff from the true story. Two girls, jealous of the dead girl because of her physical attractiveness and her grades and her boyfriend, and etc. did kill her. The first part is right if I remember. One of the murderers did seduce the dead girl's boyfriend but the murderers actually just invited the dead girl to a party and took her out in the desert in California and killed her. They are both in prison for life, now, I think. The acting is all right although I don't know the name of the actor who plays the mother of the accused. I think Robert Moses, the father of the murderer in the movie, is a very good actor. I've seen this movie twice.Jean

If horrible lifetime movies are a go-to on a sick day, please don't miss this one! It is standard lifetime crap, but very entertaining nonetheless. If you watch this with others you will get a great peanut gallery going--there are just too many things to laugh about. The dialogue is corny, the plot is unrealistic (I mean really, who would kill someone for chucking a rock at them?), and the acting is pretty over the top. Despite all of this, you will find yourself laughing at the ridiculousness that seeps out of every scene.What I love most about this movie is Fallyn--the girl looks EXACTLY like Val from "Brink". It is hard to take her seriously when all you can think about is her skating for "x-blades" and getting a milkshake thrown in her face.

"Accused at 17" seems like slow going at first — an incomprehensible set of opening shots, a title reading "Five days earlier," and a plot that for the first half-hour seems like yet another yawn-inducing tale of high-school rivalries and a put-upon heroine (Nicole Gale Anderson) who idealizes her dead father and can't stand the new boyfriend (Jason Brooks, better looking than the anonymous tall, lanky, sandy-haired guys Lifetime usually casts in these parts) of her mom Jacqui (Cynthia Gibb, top-billed). We that at some point the daughter, Bianca, is going to be accused of murder but we don't know whom she's going to kill until one day at a party — which Bianca can't attend because her mom's boyfriend is throwing an elaborate dinner party for them at his home — Bianca's boyfriend Chad (Reiley McClendon) is vamped and seduced by school slut Dory (Lindsay Taylor), giving us the sort of soft-core porn scene that makes a lot of otherwise lame Lifetime movies watchable. Bianca and her friends Fallyn (Janet Montgomery) and Sarah (Stella Maeve) work out a bizarre revenge plot that ends with Dory being bashed in with a rock in a remote canyon. As silly as much of "Accused at 17" is — one gets the impression through much of the first hour that it could just as well have been called "Valley Girls Go Bad" — it takes on power and force when (here comes the spoiler) Fallyn, Dory's actual killer, not only allows Bianca to take the rap but actively frames her for it and, in the film's most chilling scene, murders Sarah by depriving her of her anti-asthma medication just as Sarah is about to go to the police and implicate Fallyn. Janet Montgomery turns in an absolutely chilling performance as a teen girl who quickly descends from adolescent angst to criminal mania; if she keeps this up she'll be a good candidate for modern-day femme fatale roles as she grows up (watch for her!).