I will not compare the film with the actual events, there is little information on the life of these young girls, I only manage to find information about the case not about how Kirsten Costas and Bernadette Proti lived their lives so I will focus on what the movie is trying to say as a standalone project.
Tori Spelling stars as Stacey Lockwood, the "It" girl of Santa Mira high school. Stacey has everything: looks, personality, wealthy parents, and a pack of snooty, sycophantic friends at school. Kellie Martin is Angela, who just transferred To Santa Mira from a nearby Catholic school and longs to be part of Stacey's clique. However, although she is certainly intelligent and studious, Angela is awkward in all her attempts to befriend Stacey, who enjoys making scathing remarks about Angela's thrift shop wardrobe and rusted-out Pinto. One night while hanging out with Stacey, Angie makes an embarrassing plea for friendship. Stacey cuts her down viciously with the ultimate high school threat: "I'm going to tell everyone at school that you're weird!"Angie whips out a knife in a panic and stabs Stacey to death.
The focus of the film is Angela sweet, gentle, caring but awkward like 98% of most teens , just looking to fit in, she wants to makes changes in her life , be the best she can be, raised in a strict catholic family Angela is grounded, her family is not wealthy but they manage to provide enough for the family, her issue is that she tries very hard to get accepted by the girls she wants so desperately to be a part of, one can see the obsession in her eyes as she dose everything she can to get what she wants and failed (cheerleader squad and writers club) hitting her self-esteem and making her try harder to get Stacey's respect and friendship.
Stacy is not a nice person by all means she is basically Angela's opposite, she could not see anything but her own shallowness, she was killed by the wrath of Angela she in turn was the spark that started it, if she had it coming that's anyone's own interpretation, if she did not deserve it is more like it, after her death the story focuses in Angela's guilt and how she lived her days knowing what she did until she turned herself in she turned herself in, Angela is not a bad person yes she did commit a crime but she wasn't satisfied with her actions you could tell she would to anything to turn back time, her remorse is too big to hide it anymore and she dose what she feels it right. The acting in the movie is superb Kellie Martin commits to herself in this character making it one of her best performances, Tori Spelling surprisingly dose a great performance in this movie( most of her acting in any movie is just awful) as the shallow socialite Stacy, Margaret Langrick, Marley Shelton, Kathryn Morris do a great job as supporting characters there also Terry O'Quinn who had an interesting character as the school principal but was a bit pointless the story, you can say this movie is made a a consequence of bulling or peer pressure, i see it as a warning to what a person will become with the wrong circumstances. This was made in 1994 but its massage is fresh in now a days, it's a good movie to show your teenage kid its better than most that are made today
Tori Spelling stars as Stacey Lockwood, the "It" girl of Santa Mira high school. Stacey has everything: looks, personality, wealthy parents, and a pack of snooty, sycophantic friends at school. Kellie Martin is Angela, who just transferred To Santa Mira from a nearby Catholic school and longs to be part of Stacey's clique. However, although she is certainly intelligent and studious, Angela is awkward in all her attempts to befriend Stacey, who enjoys making scathing remarks about Angela's thrift shop wardrobe and rusted-out Pinto. One night while hanging out with Stacey, Angie makes an embarrassing plea for friendship. Stacey cuts her down viciously with the ultimate high school threat: "I'm going to tell everyone at school that you're weird!"Angie whips out a knife in a panic and stabs Stacey to death.
The focus of the film is Angela sweet, gentle, caring but awkward like 98% of most teens , just looking to fit in, she wants to makes changes in her life , be the best she can be, raised in a strict catholic family Angela is grounded, her family is not wealthy but they manage to provide enough for the family, her issue is that she tries very hard to get accepted by the girls she wants so desperately to be a part of, one can see the obsession in her eyes as she dose everything she can to get what she wants and failed (cheerleader squad and writers club) hitting her self-esteem and making her try harder to get Stacey's respect and friendship.
Stacy is not a nice person by all means she is basically Angela's opposite, she could not see anything but her own shallowness, she was killed by the wrath of Angela she in turn was the spark that started it, if she had it coming that's anyone's own interpretation, if she did not deserve it is more like it, after her death the story focuses in Angela's guilt and how she lived her days knowing what she did until she turned herself in she turned herself in, Angela is not a bad person yes she did commit a crime but she wasn't satisfied with her actions you could tell she would to anything to turn back time, her remorse is too big to hide it anymore and she dose what she feels it right. The acting in the movie is superb Kellie Martin commits to herself in this character making it one of her best performances, Tori Spelling surprisingly dose a great performance in this movie( most of her acting in any movie is just awful) as the shallow socialite Stacy, Margaret Langrick, Marley Shelton, Kathryn Morris do a great job as supporting characters there also Terry O'Quinn who had an interesting character as the school principal but was a bit pointless the story, you can say this movie is made a a consequence of bulling or peer pressure, i see it as a warning to what a person will become with the wrong circumstances. This was made in 1994 but its massage is fresh in now a days, it's a good movie to show your teenage kid its better than most that are made today