It has a 7.3 here on IMDB, and sounds like a really good movie. Not sure why they chose to air it on LifeTime and why nobody is putting out any articles. I kind of want to, but since nobody else has, I feel like maybe I'm wrong about it airing on LifeTime.
shareI'm watching it right now. It's incredibly cheesy, so it's probably a good thing it never went to theaters. It totally has a "made for T.V." vibe going on.
I realize it was "inspired by" a true story, but like I said, it's really cheesy.
Something that does really bother me about this movie though, is that they've got the girl waitressing (which is fine), and she's what, 16/17? Clearly underage, and she's serving alcohol? In what state is that legal? No one under the age of 21 is allowed to serve alcohol. The restaurant can be shut down/massively fined for that. And since it is apparent that the mother owns the joint, and can't afford to hire more help, she should know this and not want to risk her place by having her teenage daughter serve drinks.
EMOTICONS ARE BACK! YAY!
The fact that she looks 16 and is having sex with old man doesn't bother you- but her serving alcohol does.
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When I was a teenager, I worked in a small town in Wyoming and the teenage waitresses in the cafe not only served alcohol (they served me many times), but they ALSO had sex with some of the older guys I worked with. Things have changed nowadays and not always necessarily for the better. They have put the kibosh on minors serving (and being served) alcohol and they have TRIED to stop sex between adults and minors. It's simply a lot easier though to enforce liquor laws than to control who sexually active teenage girls have sex with. I'm not particularly shocked by 16 or 17-year-old girls serving/drinking liquor OR having sex. You can make reasonable laws to stop ADULTS from providing those things to minors, but 1. you need to accept reality and 2. you need to relegate these matters more to parents and not to try to give guys in their 20's draconian prison sentences because modern-day helicopter parents just can't accept that their daughters might not all be chaste, tee-totaling angels.
Besides, Stefanie Scott (the actress) wasn't actually underage. I kind of wish there was some theatrical version of this movie showing in Europe or something where she and Anna Camp both strip off or some hot lesbian action (but I suppose that would have been gratuitous). Still, I will never understand why so many people, especially in America, are overly hysterical about underage sex today, yet the American movies have no problem routinely casting the most ridiculously, distractingly attractive 18-25 year old actresses and actors to play "underage" teenagers.
"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"