Blame

11/11/2024

**_Great drama about six students and a teacher at a high school in Anytown, USA_** A girl returns to her school at the start of the new school year after several weeks at a mental health facility (Quinn Shephard). While some of the kids persecute her, the new drama teacher perceives her maturity and offers support (Chris Messina), which stirs up the ire of the cheerleader from hell (Nadia Alexander). “Blame” (2017) was helmed by the actress who plays the protagonist, Shephard, when she was only 20 years-old (shot in July, 2015, in 19 days). While a few armchair critics have derided it as ‘a Lifetime movie with edge,’ it has the artistry and dramatic pull to place it with the top flicks of the genre, such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” "Footloose,” "Clueless,” "The Virgin Suici