Caitlin lives in a small town, your typical American Dream type of place where everyone knows everyone and The Crew (football team and most popular girls in school) can have fun and goof around any time they want. Caitlin was conceived in Wedlock and is a high school teen living with her little sister and single mom, and desperate to be one of the crowd, she never speaks against the football team... but when Jace, one of the football players, rapes her at home, Caitlin finds nobody on her side, not even her own mom, until finally her mom believes her daughter. With the help of a strict but concerned older teacher and a top-of-the-line lawyer, Caitlin and her mom try to stand up for her reputation in a town where no one will listen.
I really found myself looking at my own town when I watched this; in Canadian military small towns, the hockey guys can get away with nearly anything; rape and even worse actions are often swept under the rug and it starts even as early as junior high school. I hate sports myself, I think it's a waste of time and money and an excuse for morons to coast through life as if they own the world. Watching this movie, it seems that my town isn't the only one in North America where "boys will be boys." Tiffani Thiessen was amazing in this movie; playing the role of a teenager who was sexually assaulted would be a very difficult role to throw yourself into but just as good was Isabella Hofmann, who played Avon Rose (Caitlin's mom). The soundtrack wasn't bad and the plot raises awareness of an issue often just covered up.
I really found myself looking at my own town when I watched this; in Canadian military small towns, the hockey guys can get away with nearly anything; rape and even worse actions are often swept under the rug and it starts even as early as junior high school. I hate sports myself, I think it's a waste of time and money and an excuse for morons to coast through life as if they own the world. Watching this movie, it seems that my town isn't the only one in North America where "boys will be boys." Tiffani Thiessen was amazing in this movie; playing the role of a teenager who was sexually assaulted would be a very difficult role to throw yourself into but just as good was Isabella Hofmann, who played Avon Rose (Caitlin's mom). The soundtrack wasn't bad and the plot raises awareness of an issue often just covered up.