abdool3 Review of A Killer Among Friends

A Killer Among Friends (1992 TV Movie)

It's terribly sad, but I love this movie

[17 February 2006]

Being a young female, I think back to my high school days and it's horrifying to think that a teenager could be murdered by people she loves and trusts and that the victims own mother could let a killer move into the house without knowing it. I would say this movie is about 90 percent accurate. Many of the things in the movie happened in real life, except that the real Ellen was not thrown out of the house by Patty Dukes character. This was a shocking movie because the mother defended and loved her daughters killers but also because Jenny did nothing wrong. Jenny was very innocent; she didn't know how disturbed her "friends" were and I don't believe the real girl slept with their boyfriends;the real Carla and Ellen were just upset and jealous because things in lives didn't work out for them.Carla and Ellen made bad choices and blamed Jenny because her life was going great; she was pretty, popular, and about to go off to college,while Ellen had a baby she couldn't support and later we find that Carla used drugs.Both Tiffany Theissen and Patty Duke do a wonderful job in this very sad movie. Patty Dukes performance as a heart broken mother is tear jerking and the murder scene is heart wrenching. I love the last scene where Patty Duke says," We love you Jenny Sleep with the angles" It was a beautiful way to end the movie.