"First Class Fear" (aka, "My Terrorized Teen") conveyed an ominous and sinister sense of a high school with depraved values on display. The name of the Morgan Academy prep school should really be changed to the Dante Academy. For the student Sophie N. Ellis, the experience of school is the rough equivalent of descending into Dante's Inferno.
Sophie is an exceptional student of valedictorian caliber. But she has a nemesis named Carolyn who will stop at nothing to have reversed the school's decision to award Sophie the $250,000 Wilson Scholarship. The stakes are high as Carolyn moves into action to besmirch Sophie's character and even destroy her life.
Carolyn has developed a website appropriately called "Living Hell." It was never made clear in the film why the school principal, Mr. Dugger, and the instructors at Morgan Academy were unable to locate the website and trace it back to Carolyn. Indeed, there were many lapses in logic in the film, as well as cardboard characters, such as the various boyfriends who were nothing more than interchangeable parts.
The strength of the film was in the bonding of Sophie and her mother Grace, who is a teacher at the academy. The compassion of the mother for a daughter who was being bullied was palpable throughout the film.
A sense of poetic justice was at work in the triumph of Sophie in graduating with honors, as well as in the exposing of Carolyn's beloved dad as nothing more than an embezzler. He was supposed to be conducting business in Italy, but it turned out he was sporting a bright orange jumpsuit in a federal penitentiary due to embezzlement. The contrast was stark between the parents of Carolyn and the impact of a decent human being in the mother of Sophie, a truly Amazing Grace.
Sophie is an exceptional student of valedictorian caliber. But she has a nemesis named Carolyn who will stop at nothing to have reversed the school's decision to award Sophie the $250,000 Wilson Scholarship. The stakes are high as Carolyn moves into action to besmirch Sophie's character and even destroy her life.
Carolyn has developed a website appropriately called "Living Hell." It was never made clear in the film why the school principal, Mr. Dugger, and the instructors at Morgan Academy were unable to locate the website and trace it back to Carolyn. Indeed, there were many lapses in logic in the film, as well as cardboard characters, such as the various boyfriends who were nothing more than interchangeable parts.
The strength of the film was in the bonding of Sophie and her mother Grace, who is a teacher at the academy. The compassion of the mother for a daughter who was being bullied was palpable throughout the film.
A sense of poetic justice was at work in the triumph of Sophie in graduating with honors, as well as in the exposing of Carolyn's beloved dad as nothing more than an embezzler. He was supposed to be conducting business in Italy, but it turned out he was sporting a bright orange jumpsuit in a federal penitentiary due to embezzlement. The contrast was stark between the parents of Carolyn and the impact of a decent human being in the mother of Sophie, a truly Amazing Grace.