Fantastic!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Jessie Brenner (Sara Paxton) is a shy track athlete and the first college student in her family. Her loving mother (Nancy Travis) is a single widow. Shanna (Chelsea Hobbs) is her new roommate. She joins Shanna's party life gaining confidence with alcohol. She is befriended by straight-arrow musician Colin. Shanna introduces her to hunky Keith who she loses her virginity to on the first date. It turns out that he has other girls. Her academics and track suffer. She's avoiding her mother until she visits. Shanna convinces her to party in San Diego where she joins a wet T-shirt contest. Her flashing gets on the internet and even her little sister Sadie is affected.These kinds of movies used to be called afterschool specials. The writing is very broad and somewhat bland. The narration is bad. Everything is done without subtlety. Nevertheless, the movie is exactly what it was always suppose to be. Sara Paxton is a charming enough lead. It could be a lot worst.

As the parent of a 12th-grade boy I found this movie credible and scary.The plot twists are easy to spot but that didn't bother me much. I knew that pretty Jessie Brenner (Reese Witherspoon-lookalike Sara Paxton) would party too hard, go to bed with users, wind up topless on the Internet, and find her debauched roommate Shanna (Chelsea Hobbs) dead from alcohol. I also foresaw that Jessie's mother, well-played by Nancy Travis, would finally make an embarrassing visit to campus.I think this movie nails the unpleasant conflicts that can erupt between parents and kids nearing adulthood. The elders have good reason to mistrust their children and boy, do the offspring resent them! I wondered whether the party atmosphere as depicted in the film was a little over-the-top, but that may reflect the fact that I am now 57 years old. I liked how Mrs. Brenner finally put her foot down, telling Jessie that if she made any grade under a C she wasn't going to pay the tuition. Excellent! From my current vantage point, it's scary to think of teenagers becoming alcoholic as they room together without supervision. Yet I must have faith that many undergrads realize they're in college for a reason.I watched this Lifetime movie with my 11-year-old son and it gave us an opportunity to look up on the Internet the penalties for being caught with a forged ID. (He wasn't thrilled about the discussion.) That research in itself was educative. Now, if I can only get my older son to listen while I (try to) explain...

This movie was an incredibly unrealistic view of college life and alcohol use. It is true that college students drink. To assume otherwise would be ignorant and naive. However, this movie was blatant holier-than-thou propaganda trying to spark fear into the hearts of parents sending their babies off to college for the first time. I mean, honestly, the ending was so ridiculous that I laughed out loud. It was like an hour long public service announcement containing the same quality of material presented in 1985.Instead of this movie presenting a non-biased view of alcohol use in college settings, it completely went to the extreme, making any use of alcohol seem like it would only lead to unsafe sex, failing grades, and even death! I would have liked the ending to have shown this girl being able to drink a couple of beers, or some wine with responsible and mature friends without taking off her top and driving drunk. This would have shown that yes, it's OK to drink, as long as it's in moderation, with people you can trust. All this movie did was show that college students will either only drink extreme amounts, in extreme settings, and fail in life, or not drink ever again and live life happily ever after. Ridiculous! Horrible Horrible movie. Don't waste your time.

The least one can say about this film is that it is artificial and a bit moralistic ! A young lady is sent to university, obviously from a wealthy family and spends all of her money on drinking herself sick. How interesting ! NUmerous passages of the film shown young idiots drinking themselves silly ! Funny thing is, no one is smoking either tobacco or marijuana ! It doesn't ring true. In my experience, all these activities are generally practised concomitantly by students. In addition to this you have a real pain-in-the-neck mother who is wasting the family money on frequent telephone calls to her daughter ! It is absolutely laughable. When I went to university, I had a phone call from my parents about every 2 months, so I do not really understand the carryings-on in this film. Perhaps you need to be a USA student to understand. I found many sequences pretty repetitive and the end most predictable though I actually had forecast Jessie's friend to die whilst falling from the roof during a binge drinking session. In the event, she died a little later at a binge drinking session at a friends house. All in all this is not really very serious, I cannot imagine where these students get all the money from to be able to spend so much on drink so I have doubts about the veracity of the film. Students generally have difficulty paying for their lodging and books and hardly have money to squander away on liquor ! Not a film to be really taken seriously.