It's pretty obvious that the movie is based on the Steubenville rape case. Lifetime just took some liberties with the plot.
"that hexagon-face bitch, she's so passive-aggressive."-SpencerFan
Yeah, it was quite obvious that case was the inspiration.
shareI'm not into lifetime films, but I gotta know, did this film play out like the case on which it's based?
shareThat's a good question. I tuned in after it started.
shareSo far, no. The only similarity is 2 football players assaulting a girl who blacked out, people seeing it, taking pics and not doing anything to help her. Nothing else is going along with the real case.
The girl in the Steubenville rape case didn't go to the same school as the guys who assaulted her, she wasn't left bruised and bleeding in a football jersey on her front lawn and as far as I know she didn't try to kill herself and I think she only found out about what happened to her through pictures, maybe videos, texts and tweets.
I know 99% of the trial was blacked out bc witnesses testifying chose not to be video taped. I think there is still a copy of the probable cause court room transcripts on the internet somewhere that has witness testimony, but it doesn't have the testimony of the guys who were actually on trial. There are screen shots of tweets that were tweeted that night (not just from Nodianous) and there is a transcript of text messages between her and someone where she is asking what happened to her, texts between one of the guys and another guy talking about the coach taking care of things, etc.
If you go looking for this stuff, remember that KYANONYMOUS aka Deric Lostutter (the man guy behind bringing this to light) and a girl named Prinnididit aka Alexandra Goddard (the girl who found out about the story and approached KYAnonymous) posted an lot of flat out false information...don't know if it was intentionally done or just wasn't verified properly before posting.
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I think Steubenville was the inspiration, but that was it.
In the Steubenville case, while there was a definite sexual assault, I can nonetheless see how the two drunken idiots did not see what that did as rape. In this movie, there is no question that the act was direct vaginal sex forced on the girl against her will, apparently by five or six guys who had to know what they were doing was a serious crime.
In Steubenville, the girl was an out-of-town stranger. The girl in the movie was a a cheerleader at the same school and knew her attackers well.
In Steubenville, the girl was unconscious during when she was victimized. In the movie, the girl was conscious and screaming NO at the top of her lungs.
did this film play out like the case on which it's based?
It was the inspiration in the sense that Lifetime tends to make movies very loosely based on actual events to exploit them. I really wish they would include a disclaimer the way Law & Order episodes do, because that show does the exact same thing but has the decency to be upfront about it.
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