Robert J. Maxwell Taylor Spreitler, as Angela Curson, is a high school girl of seventeen and is pregnant. But that's not where the problem lies. A few words of admonishment from her parents -- nice performance from Amy Pietz as the concerned mother -- and the middle-class Curson family happily sets about buying baby doo-dads and fixing up the spare room for a nursery, little pink figures in the wall paper and whatnot. Oh, the family presumably still wishes that their little girl hadn't gotten knocked up at sixteen, but let's put that behind us. Everything is hunky-dory.Except for one thing. The young college student, Chuck Hittinger as Chad Bruning, the father-to-be. The writers have no intention of challenging the viewer. They spill the beans about who's right and who's wrong right off the bat with those names. Now, I ask you, the experienced viewer, the perspicacious assessor, who is good and who is bad -- someone named "Angela Curson" or someone named "Chad Bruning"?Actually Hittinger looks a little like the late Patrick Swayze, and he's all enthusiastic about the pregnancy. Apparently a nice young man, he tries to pressure Spreitler into marrying him so they can live together happily. But by this time the young girl and her family have rethought things. Hittinger is just not their type. So they tell him to bug off. Little did they know that tragedy lay just around the corner.Hittinger had been adopted as a somewhat wayward child by the morally upright Linda Purl. Hittinger's real mother had been a junkie and had wound up in the Crowbar Hotel, but she'd been Purl's housekeeper and, out of kindness, Purl accepted the orphaned Hittinger. (I hope you're following all this.) Now the real mother shows up and begs Purl for her old job back. She's clean and ready. Purl rudely throws her out for no discernible reason.Hittinger's miscreant mother is played by Jamie Luner. She's the most impressive performer in the movie. Deglamorized to the point of homeliness, she exudes pathos and passion. The scene in which Luner politely begs Purl for her old job, while Purl folds her arms across her chest and frowns down at this wreck of a woman may be the only moving moment in the entire story.I think the rest is predictable enough not to need too much description. Hittinger becomes obsessed with "his" child. His importunings become more obvious and more demanding. There is a fist fight with Spreitler's father in a parking lot. Her father is a middle-aged white collar professional but has little trouble decking a larger and younger college student. Finally, with the help of his real mother, Hittinger kidnaps Spreitler and the baby. Tragedy ensues.It's a terrible movie. I watched it fascinated, to see how low it would stoop, how fantastic the plot had to become, to end the way it did. Poor Taylor Spreitler. She's a cute blond but cannot act. And when she's supposed to be pregnant, waddling around wearing that prosthesis under her jersey, the sight is preposterous.The movie embodies two not entirely unpleasant fantasies: (1) Being made a victim so everyone is on your side, and (2) being so desirable that a man would be willing to kill for you. Watch it if you're really curious about this genre.

lindadrobinson For someone who is stalked, and then basically kidnapped at gunpoint, the young actress Taylor Spreitler was not ready for this role. Her performance was wooden.The writing for this movie was really not that good. The Stalker gave a decent performance, as well as his adoptive mother and biological mother.This movie would have been much better with a stronger lead actress in the role.Overall, another basic nothing movie by Lifetime. Though lately, Lifetime Movies have got some hits in the Anna Nicole movie, and the Jodi Arias movie.

Jackie P Movie was entertaining, and the acting better than I had expected from everyone in the film. Leads young but I thought they played their characters well. The 16 / 17 year old lead was naive and made some poor choices, but to me that is well in character for who she was. Her friend Tenaya seemed to have more common sense & offer some good advice. The cast was impressive, I know I've seen most of them in other roles on TV or movies but the acting was good & everyone was believable in their character for this film.The big let down was the ending - the first time I saw it I thought someone at the network had screwed up & cut off the last 5 minutes of the film to start the next one on time. So I watched the last half again when it came on later that night - same thing! Just a close up on the baby & flashbacks her stalker boyfriend was having - presumably as his life ebbed away? After becoming interested in the storyline & the characters I sure wanted more than this vague half baked ending.

edwagreen She just turned 17 and after a brief encounter with a 21 year old, she finds herself pregnant, but certainly not alone.The oddity of this story is that the father of the baby persists that he wants to handle everything. The problems begin when her parents totally reject him and he begins stalking our young lady.His real mother, a convicted felon, adds plenty to the story with those evil eyes that she possesses. She is very scary and intimidating. However, she does know the score. A sidebar to this story is that when she went to prison, the woman whose house she cleaned, a councilwoman who went on to divorce, adopted the young boy as her own.It just shows you the heredity factor here in that the young man is so emotionally unbalanced to say the least.