Selling Innocence (2005) (TV)

Director:

Pierre Gang

Writers:

John Moffatt (story)
John Moffatt (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

2 July 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Mia Sampson's (Sarah Lind) dreams to be a model come true when she's asked to pose for photographs to...

Plot Keywords:

Modelling | Internet Porn | Model | Popularity | High School

Cast

Mimi Rogers	...	Abby Sampson
JR Bourne	...	Malcolm Lowe
Sarah Lind	...	Mia Sampson
Tamara Hope	...	Chelsea Burns
Mike Lobel	...	Justin Johnson
Joanne Kelly	...	Simone
Fred Ewanuick	...	James
Charisse Baker	...	Jen Wilson
Alexz Johnson	...	Angel
Emma Paetz	...	Stephanie Walker
Margherita Donato	...	Bridget
Nicky Pugh	...	Naomi
Patrick Gilmore	...	Karl
Coralie Cairns	...	Carmen
Tommy Lim	...	Annoying M.C.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Cité-Amérique

pure hypocrisy

This is supposed to be a movie that will show and condemn the exploitation of teens on the web today. It succeeds on some levels, but mostly in the way those Christian or government anti-drug campaigns work e.g. without much subtlety and with forced drama and pathetics.

What angered me the most is the pure hypocrisy of this movie - whoever made this has never turned on MTV or opened a teen magazine in his/her life. Those things regularly have pictures of teens in far more lascivious poses than what the movie tries to sell as ultra-perverse yet it is considered quite normal in our society - better yet, teen models from those magazines are probably the most popular kids in their schools, unlike the movie protagonist who is mocked and laughed upon - plot device that really got a few things wrong with todays teen mentality.

Furthermorem the movie chose the dreaded cheesy approach - a cliché egomaniac web-site owner as the antagonist and a cheap thriller side-plot to keep the audience from sleeping. Oh, and if this movie is really so much against teen exploitation, than there is really too much of that running-in-bra-and-panties schtick.

On the other hand, the actors are all on-par (except Mimi Rogers with her one-facial-expression-fits-all acting ability), the movie doesn't drag too long and the issue it addresses should be addressed. But really in a more realistic and less hypocritical manner.