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The first of the three films Lifetime showed from 6 p.m. to midnight April 8 was "Girl Followed," an obvious pun on "Girl, Interrupted" but really a pretty conventional Lifetime tale of a young woman being the target of obsessive stalking and sabotage from a somewhat older man. This time around the girl was 14-year-old Regan Lindstrom (Emma Fuhrmann), who simply can't catch a break. Her parents Jim (Joey Lawrence) and Abby (Heather McComb) spy on her constantly and treat her with all the sensitivity and love of concentration-camp commandants. This is one of those stories in which the parents are so good at keeping tabs on their kids (not only Regan but her older sister Taylor, played by Gianna LaPera) one wonders why they don't make some real money with these skills by working for the CIA or NSA. They're particularly down on any boy she expresses even the slightest romantic interest in, and so of course Regan rebels at the earliest opportunity. When her crush object Austin (Jake Elliott) breaks up with her and goes with her cuter and richer best friend Sabine (Olivia Nikkanen) instead, Sabine tells Regan her secret was she sent Austin selfies of her in her underwear, and if she wants to get him back Regan should do the same. She does so, and Sabine critiques the photos, saying that she looks good in red (her bra was red) but she needs sexier undies to strike lust in the heart of her chosen male.

Accordingly, on a shopping trip for clothes with her mom, Regan shoplifts a hot, sexy bra and panties — we get the impression it's less because the family can't afford them and more because mom would never buy things like that for her in a million years — and her new set of sexted selfies gets spread all over the school and instantly earns her a reputation as a slut. Meanwhile, Regan frequently visits mom, who works as a nurse, at her hospital, where one of mom's duties is giving out tests and treatments for STD's (which may be offered by the writers, Christine Conradt, Chris Lancey and Melissa Cacera, as an explanation for why she's so otherwise inexplicably overprotective of Regan: she sees young people coming in with the wages of sexual experimentation every day!) — and she's attracted the lascivious attentions of Nate (Travis Caldwell), the STD clinic's 22-year-old receptionist. Nate is a young man who doesn't need to work — he lives in a big house and is pretty much alone because his super-rich parents spend most of their time on vacation (indeed, I recognized the house from a previous Lifetime movie, though I can't remember right now which one) — and he's also a suspect in the mysterious disappearance of Lana, another teenage girl from the same town.

Of course the moment we see Travis Caldwell, who's tall, dark-haired, baby-faced and drop-dead gorgeous, we know he's going to be the sinister stalker who's going to menace Our Heroine — and indeed he does, though he ramps up his campaign of revenge or obsession or whatever to attack her parents as well. Conradt's presence hints at a more interesting movie than the one that got made, and if she had been in charge of the whole project instead of just co-writing an "original" (quotes definitely appropriate!) story that got turned into a script by a third scribe, she probably would have made Nate a more complex character and given at least a hint of what made him "run." Alas, Nate got depicted as your typical generic Lifetime sex-crazed maniac who gets progressively crazier as the film goes on. Also, Conradt, Lancey and Cacera offered no clue about how Abby would have reacted when she realized that the mysterious figure menacing her daughter was someone she worked with and therefore knew well and trusted. But the real person who screwed up this movie wasn't any of the writers, nor was it director Tom Shell (who did a perfectly workmanlike, though far from great, job with it), but the casting director, Mary Jo Slater. First of all, though Heather McComb and Emma Fuhrmann look enough alike to be believable as coming from the same family, McComb is young enough she looks more like Fuhrmann's older sister than her mom — and Joey Lawrence looks even younger. Lawrence has got a hot, blond, butch male bod and certainly could give Travis Caldwell competition in the looks department (too bad the writers gave him a character whose virtually only emotion is blustering anger, hardly the stuff to evoke the sexual fantasies I'd probably be having about Lawrence if I got to see him in a different sort of role), but he and McComb simply don't look old enough to have two teenage daughters. And what's more, the actress actually playing Regan's older sister, Gianna LaPera, is blonde, has curly hair and a different body type from Fuhrmann's — though maybe we were supposed to think Regan took after her mom and Taylor her dad, looks-wise. Girl Followed is a pretty generic Lifetime thriller, not all that bad but not transcendent either — though it might have been considerably better if Conradt had got to write it solo — with nice-looking people of both (mainstream) genders enacting a pretty stupid story that offers the usual Lifetime formulae but nothing more than that.

I've never seen worse acting. The so-called actor playing the father is capable of two expressions. The mother is also wooden but at least can eke out three different faces. If their daughters are breathing, walking, eating, the parents reaction is "Oh my God! They're gonna implode! The 5.5 big one is gonna swallow them up!" Dreadful movie and complete waste of time.

Save yourselves viewers and run for the hills.

So the movie opens with an abduction of someone named Tara and then the bad guy for some unexplained reason changes his entire MO to stalking and falling for a 14 yo. At the end we find out in one sentence "...Tara is OK...Where the heck was she the entire show that now she is OK?? No explanation at all. Dumb.

Life Time Movie. The girl in the movie is beyond stupid. I personally have a hard time believing that girls are this stupid. If they were there would be a lot more teen pregnancies. And if you believe this movie all guys are evil scum bags that if this was true we would be nothing but a bunch of lying cheat scum bags who rape little girls. Do your self a favor and don't let your kids see this. Don't let anyone see this. I would have given this movie a 1, but anytime you get a 17 year old girl in a a sports bra you got to bump it up at least 1 point.

Joey Lawrence tripped up at the end of the movie. His daughter, the main one, is named Regan. With just 1:26 minutes left in the movie he says The most important thing is Tara is safe. Tara was the girl who was kidnapped in the opening scene.

The title "Girl Followed" does not accurately convey the gist of this Lifetime Channel potboiler. A more accurat title would be "The Male Secretary is a Psychopath."

It is a credit to the actors in this film that they were able to stand up and deliver their lines without breaking into laughter. While the dialogue was well-written, the situations were invariably incredulous. For example, how could the perceptive mother Abby not recognize that the male secretary in her medical office was flirting with her daughter? How could young Regan not know that it is verboten to shoplift, send out racy selfies, and sneak out at night to meet Nate in the park?

These jaw-dropping moments were filmed with solid production values. The locations around L.A. were interesting in establishing an environment for a coterie of elitists that has no concern about money. Nate's parents and millionaires and he drives a Mercedes while holding down his job as a male secretary. Jim and Abby can afford to purchase a new car for their daughter Taylor's sixteenth birthday. With Jim's promotion as an administrator at a community center and Abby's salary as a nurse, they are able to maintain a luxurious home in an exclusive area of L.A. and pay for a vacation in the Bahamas. The major premises of the characters and their lives were simply not believable.

All of the high school students in film appeared to be played by actors far too old their roles. Even Nate looked older than 22. (The actor playing the role was apparently 28 at the time of filming.) Those casting issues could be forgiven if the story was truly gripping. Instead, the film was a by-the-numbers treatment of a psychopath, who cleverly uses the internet, social media, and other technology for his devious purposes. With Nate's ability to nearly ruin the careers of both Abby and Jim and skillfully prey upon their daughter, the film does offer a valid warning about the dangers of the internet at a time when we are losing more and more of what was formerly known as "privacy." In this regard, the film is worth watching.

The movie pictures the adolescent rebellion of the young girl and the unsupervised psychopathic young man who manipulates the situation. Parental supervision of teen girl (Regan) though looks over protective, is not normal concern of the loving parents. How psychologist helps in identifying the psycho boy friend is also a good move. I liked it. It is a lesson to teenage girls to be watchful.

This movie is awful, nothing good about it. Same old tale and nothing new. Regan tries to get the attention of someone she knew at school and it escalated. People called her names and it spread to the school when she took a sexual picture of herself. the acting was a minus 10. the movie started out boring and ended boring. How many times are you going to do the psycho guy leaks pictures to everyone on campus and everyone her father works with? Oh come on... its so stupid and lame!the so called best friend of Regan believed the sexual rumors and began dating one of the popular boys in school and Regan was shunned and transferred to a new school. all in all, worst I've ever seen.

How many times can you re write it? come on and get a new script. Bad cast, bad script.

But seriously, I'll admit I watched this primarily for Joey Lawrence and Heather McComb, but it had me hooked as an effectively graphic example of how young girls can be led astray by seemingly harmless adult figures and how their parents can try to keep them in line.

While I loved the usual Lifetime movie last-10-minute-battle-to-the- death showdown, I also appreciated the solid performances put in by Joey Lawrence and Heather McComb as the tormented parents, as well as creepy guy Nate (Travis Caldwell), big-hearted sister Taylor (Gianna LePera) and good-girl-almost-gone-bad Regan (Emma Fuhrmann).

I know this is a subject done over many times on channels like Lifetime, but it can never get enough attention.

For what it's worth, there are a couple videos online showing real teen girls meeting up with an older guy posing as a teen as a very serious teaching model for parents. If they are at all real, they are pretty chilling.

Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMhMVEjEQg

Caught this movie recently and I really enjoyed it for a Lifetime movie. My daughter is in the age range of the teen character and her friend had a scary experience with someone trying to connect with her through a video game chat. This movie really captured how teens can be manipulated, especially with technology. I thought the actress that played the mom and the teen daughter (reegan? ) were really good.

This movie should serve as a warning about an older guy going after a 14 year old girl. But somehow the actor they chose doesn't look old enough and the girl not naive and young enough so they look more like a possible couple than a predatory relationship. Joey Lawrence doesn't quite convince as Dad. A 14 year old girl falls for some male nurse colleague of her mother's. They form an illicit relationship and of course the girl is super irritating.

It's an okay watch but would have been better with more appropriate casting.