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Girl anxious to get away & start anew at college. She's vulnerable. Grows suspicious of everyone & everything when each one of her newfound "friends" seemingly suspects her of a murder.

Lackluster sorority genre Lifetime "thriller"

This movie could have been better if it had focused solely on protagonist Jennifer. Instead, the writers weave together two entire story lines that are are unrelated--Jennifer&#39;s integration into the sorority and Jennifer&#39;s mom&#39;s drinking issues. Because of this, the tension is reduced considerably. Character Development/Writing Quality: Mimics many other sorority movies with the surface-friendly girls trope. Like The House on Sorority Row, there is something sinister lurking beneath the girls&#39; facades. There is character development, but not with Jennifer so much; we see her mother sobering, but again, this doesn&#39;t help the main plot line, which is Jennifer being accused of murdering the sorority president. There is also a twist, though it doesn&#39;t feel totally plausible. 
Values: A mother protecting her daughter. A girl seeking truth to absolve herself of murder. 
Content (sex, language &amp; violence): No sex. Mild language. One intense scene of violence in a flashback, showing the president&#39;s vicious murder. 
Scare Factor/Suspense: Not really scary. More of a drama/coming of age sorority lifestyle.
The writing aside, the acting is pretty good, primarily with the sorority president, her right hand girl, and Jennifer. They do keep us engaged.

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Sorority Murder

This is a lackluster Lifetime &quot;sorority&quot; movie that&#39;s not really thrilling enough to be a &quot;thriller&quot; yet neither is it trashy enough to be a guilty pleasure. The film is carried by the hugely watchable charismatic Scarlett Hefner aka Scarlett Byrne as she tromps through one conflict after another. And yet again the cute righteous &quot;new girl&quot; gets into a feud with the vain snooty &quot;head of the sorority.&quot; All that said, you would think that after a murder on sorority grounds in which logically all the &quot;sisters&quot; are suspects, the authorities would perform a due diligent search of the sorority house and the &quot;secret basement&quot; hidden only by a flimsy tapestry that literally contains boxes and boxes of incriminating evidence. And when star girl Jennifer is a wrongfully suspected for a MURDER committed by intuitively one of her sorority sisters - and those sisters are actively trying to frame you - you would immediately move out of that place. But no. Jennifer stays behind &quot;to get to the bottom this.&quot; And of course she shares all her leads and suspicions with all the people trying to frame her. And then when she finally sneaks her way into the secret basement and then the secret warehouse with literally a warehouse full of evidence, does she call 911 and tell them &quot;Hey guys come quick. I&#39;ve broken this case wide open&quot;? No. She decides that it&#39;s better to call her mom and give her sketchy details of her whereabouts and explain that she&#39;s going to take critical evidence that she got from breaking and entering and that she has mercilessly tampered with, BY HAND to the police department. Everyone is apprehended in the end - sadly without even a baddie getting punched out, or struck with a rock or a branch, as would typically happen in a Lifetime movie right before the police arrive.

The acting is on par with what you expect from a lifetime movie. ie you could act better.
The plot is worse than the acting. It&#39;s filled with holes and unnecessary scenes. A large portion of the film has the protagonist trying to get evidence from &quot;the basement&quot;, where she searches for a file box... but the remembers it isn&#39;t there... very poorly written.
There are many &quot;flashback&quot; scenese that arent needed. Probably inserted to add time.
Dont waste your time.

You might think that you&#39;re listening to an old Andy Griffith show or Jessica Fletcher solving a murder on &quot;Murder, She Wrote.&quot; We have the standard case of someone making threats to get someone for constant mistreatment and of course, when the former winds up dead, all suspicion falls upon the one who made the statement. In this story, a young girl on a scholarship is lured into joining a sorority where the head is an absolute miserable tyrant. Why the other girls never voted her out was beyond me. Our pledge is disliked by the head who harasses her and gets those threats, before she is done in all together. The rest of the film is devoted to the girl trying to prove her innocence. Complicating matters is that the girl&#39;s mother is an alcoholic, but the film still shows that even with this handicap, mother may always still come to the aid of her teen charge.

This movie is nothing but eye candy. Any viewers who are going through a mid-life crisis should love this movie.

A sorority is by definition a conspiracy waiting to happen. After all, it is a secret society comprised of women who admit the members in secrecy, then participate in secret activities. This is a lesson that the young architecture student Jen is slow to learn in &quot;Sorority Murder.&quot; When she arrives at Whittendale University in Vermont for her freshman year, Jen is given brilliantly stupid advice by her professor and architecture instructor. He recognizes that Jen is an advanced student. But instead of challenging her to excel, he recommends that she back off on academics and give herself over to a social life. So, the student dutifully takes his advice and joins the girls of Beta Sigma Eta during rush week. Because Jen is feisty, she is a potential object of hazing for the sorority that is already on probation. Her roommate Alex is even more gullible than Jen, as she suffers under the authoritarian regime of the president Breanne. When Breanne is murdered, Jen is fingered for the crime because she was the only pledge with the gumption to stand up to Breanne. Despite the college setting, the most memorable relationship in the film is that of Jen and her mother Melissa, an alcoholic still grieving the death of her husband. But when Melissa attends her first AA meeting, she wins back the trust of her daughter. The bonding of mother and daughter helps to sustain Jen through her ordeal. Some atypical humor in the film occurs when Melissa arrives at the sorority to support her daughter, and she impersonates a drunk, slurring her words and distracting the confused sorority sisters while Jen searches the facility for clues. The devoted mom was drawing upon her personal experience for a practical exercise in method acting. Jen enlists another ally in the figure of Darren, a frat boy who sees something special in Jen&#39;s eyes and helps her in her quest to prove her innocence. Of course, the Whittendale police force is completely useless in their investigation, leaving it up to Jen, Melissa, and Darren to find the clues and unlock the secrets of the conspiracy. In Shakespeare&#39;s &quot;Julius Caesar,&quot; there is the dynamic depiction of a conspiracy to kill Caesar that resonates with the sisters of Beta Sigma Eta. When Caesar is stabbed by Brutus, the man he most trusts, Caesar exclaims, &quot;Et tu, Brute!&quot; So too was Breanne felled in a conspiracy that will surely resonate across the ages just as fully as the death of Julius Caesar. On the wall of Jen&#39;s room is a poster with a quote from Einstein: &quot;Imagination is more important than knowledge.&quot; This is a truth that the fledgling architect Jen applies to proving her innocence just as much as she will be using it in the design of a building.

The &quot;feature&quot; I watched Sunday night was yet another Lifetime &quot;world premiere,&quot; &quot;Sorority Murder,&quot; directed by Jesse James Miller (just what were his parents thinking when they gave him that name?) from a script by J. Bryan Dick and Ken Sanders, and set in the fictitious &quot;Whittendale University&quot; world that has also given us such previous Lifetime movies as &quot;The Surrogate,&quot; &quot;Dirty Teacher&quot; and &quot;Sugar Daddies.&quot; (At least this one finally and definitively identifies &quot;Whittendale University&quot; as being located in Vermont, though like most Lifetime movies this is actually Everywhere, Canada &quot;playing&quot; Everywhere, U.S.) The plot of &quot;Sorority Murder&quot; is pretty much the usual Lifetime same-old, same-old: Jennifer Taylor (Scarlett Byrne) is an architecture student who&#39;s just transferred from a community college to Whittendale and is hoping the school will be a home away from home, since her real home is dominated by Melissa Taylor (Sarah-Jane Redmond), her mother, who&#39;s become an alcoholic since Jennfer&#39;s dad died and spends a lot of time either drinking at home or hanging out at skuzzy bars with an equally pathetic boyfriend identified in the cast list just as &quot;Drunk Guy&quot; (Jeffrey Klassen). Casting directors Don Carroll and Candice Elzinga deserve credit for having come up with two women for these roles who actually look enough alike they&#39;re credible as mother and daughter; the suspension-of-disbelief all too many movies require when people who don&#39;t look at all like each other are passed off as biological relations is a pet peeve of mine. Jennifer seems to have got her wish when she&#39;s recruited by Alex Johnson (Nicole Muñoz) — that&#39;s right, a woman named Alex — to join the school&#39;s most prestigious sorority, whose official name is Beta Sigma Eta but whose Greek letters appear to spell out the English expletive &quot;Beh.&quot; The student leader at the sorority is a domineering bitch named Breanne Bartley (Clare Filipow, who turns in easily the most powerful performance in the film and makes it a pity she exits so early), who&#39;s viciously insulting towards Jennifer and says she&#39;ll never really be one of them. Jennifer moves into the sorority house and rooms with Alex, who&#39;s on Breanne&#39;s blacklist for having put the moves on Breanne&#39;s boyfriend Eric (Madison Smith). Breanne is found murdered outside the house while most of its residents are at a party being given by the fraternity next door. Jennifer hadn&#39;t planned to go because she had a major assignment due the next day — a model she had built of the building she&#39;d designed in her architecture class — only she finds the model smashed, blames Breanne and angrily confronts her not only about the destruction of her model but a previous prank in which a dead rat was placed under Alex&#39;s bed. (Thinking of &quot;Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,&quot; I joked, &quot;It could have been worse. She could have served it to you for dinner.&quot;) So naturally, when Breanne turns up dead, Jennifer is instantly the prime suspect, and she determines that the only way she can convince the typically dull movie cops (Patrick Sabongui and Rukiya Bernard) she didn&#39;t do it is to act like an Alfred Hitchcock hero and find out on her own who did. &quot;Sorority Murder&quot; is pretty typical Lifetime fare; it&#39;s actually better acted than usual, and director Jesse James Miller (will he ever get to do a movie about his namesake?) brings it to the screen with a real flair for suspense and atmospherics, but he&#39;s done in by the relentless ridiculousness of the Sanders-Dick script and the sheer obviousness of the conventional thriller tropes the lazy writers used to pad out their film to the obligatory Lifetime running time. Still, Orion Radies as Jennifer&#39;s boyfriend-to-be Darren is a nice-looking man and Clare Filipow is genuinely powerful as the bitch who gets her comeuppance . . . permanently

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Sorority Murder

substandard

Lackluster sorority genre Lifetime "thriller"

Bad, in a bad way.

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