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A Killer Among Friends
A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.
Release : | 1992 |
Rating : | 6.6 |
Studio : | Green/Epstein Productions, Lorimar Television, CBS, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Patty Duke Margaret Welsh Tiffani Thiessen David Cubitt Loretta Swit |
Genre : | Drama Mystery TV Movie |
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Great Film overall
Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
I have seen this movie at least 20 times, and am shocked by it every single time. It is based on the real murder of Michele Alvila. She was killed by best friend Karen Severson and another friend Laura Doyle. Karen was released from jail in December 2011, and Laura December 2012.In the movie, we see "Michele" who is called Jenny, with "Karen" called Ellen, as friends who have grown apart. Ellen is jealous of Jenny because she is pretty and thin and popular. Ellen has a child and a nowhere life. In her mind, Jenny has everything and deserves to die because of it.Ellen is a twisted freak who gives Ted Bundy a run for his money. I wonder if Ellen/Karen has really changed.
Jenny Monroe gets murdered by her best friends Ellen Holloway and Carla Lewis. Kathy Pearl was the only one who knew it was them who killed Jenny. Ellen told her to keep her mouth shut. She grabbed a knife and left a cut on Kathy's face. The one day down in the woods Ellen and Carla faked a fight. Thats when it all went wrong. When Jenny tried to stop it, Ellen and Carla said "we don't hate each other, it's you we hate". They started pummeling on Jenny. They said "let's take a walk". The trail leaded to a creek. Thats where it all began. Carla pushed Jenny. Ellen cut Jenny's long brown hair. They both started Tring to kill Jenny. Then Carla tried to grab a log to drown Jenny but it was too heavy. Ellen Tried to help Carla lift the log. Once they got it they put it over Jenny and then she died.
A TV movie to watch! "A Killer Among Friends" is very dramatic and moving. It aired on t.v. as a "thriller" so I decided to give it a try and I got caught by it since the beginning. Tiffany Thiessen leads the young cast and let me say that she looks super hot and teases the audience with her beautiful legs and tight clothes; that's why her not so pretty friends were jealous about her.The rest of the cast is very good specially Patty Duke that gives a powerful performance as a mother living the worst nightmare. The killer (s) is someone you don't expect at the beginning but later in the movie it's a prime suspect.A good movie not to be missed.
The fact that this is based on a true story make this movie all the more horrifying. Based upon the true crime novel, "Missy's Murder" by Karen Kingsbury, the movie surrounds the death of a high school girl whose body was found in a nearby river with a 100lb log on her body, and a mother's search for justice.This is probably one of my favorite TV movies. Patty Duke moved me as Jean Monroe, a mother who would do anything to find out who killed her only daughter. My favorite line of all, when Jean confronts Det. Staley (Loretta Swit) and says "I may be a little woman, but I have a big mouth." Having seen the real woman whom Patty portrayed, I have no doubt in my mind that the line was actually said.Ellen was probably one of the most vindictive manipulators I have ever seen. She finds a way to move into her dead friend's home with her young child (in her room no less!) and then starts wearing her clothes and trying to be her. The fact that she made her own child say that she knew who killed Jenny, was one of the most horrible things I have ever seen. SPOILER ALERT!!! By the time you find out that Ellen and Carla were the murders, you are thrilled that Jean smacks Ellen on the face, yet panged that Ellen and Carla led her on for so many years. IF you haven't read "Missy's Murder", you should really try to seek it out. I got mine off eBay after a bidding war.