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I had to write a review about this after reading all the 10/10 reviews already on here - now, forgive me for being cynical but I'm calling BS on the majority of them. There is absolutely no way this is a 10/10 movie, get a grip... clearly people involved in the production/ actors etc.

The storyline is so so but rather poorly done, as another reviewer stated it glamourises and romanticises a serious subject matter - which IMO is in poor taste. The actors I think do what they can but they aren't particularly engaging. Poor acting, poor writing, poor direction.

A typical TV/Prime low budget movie. Giving it a 6 is being generous.

It's a tough subject, especially if roles were reversed, but the acting was very good which allows you to see how these situations could happen. Overall, well done indie.

On the surface it's kinda a lifetime movie. Teacher has an affair with her troubled student. But this is handled with a lot of care and features a really strong lead performance by the teacher and even a bit of suspense. Extra points for the score.

I really find nothing more descipable than student teacher relationships and I think an unstable woman like the lead character Lila should clearly not be teaching at all. However young Jared Scott does a stellar job as Jason and despite my strong views on this subject I could not help wondering by the end if Jason might be better off heading for the hills with Lila - he is in a serious pickle that will be hard to escape......

Well, I am persevering, and half way through, only because of the incredible reviews and the astounding amount of award nominations ! Goes beyond belief,- it is so poorly acted, poorly edited, almost no soundtrack, really, really bad !!!!!

Really bad acting. Felt sorry for myself for wasting half-n-hour.

An illicit affair, done with "class." OK, given it's an affair between a teacher and a student, that was kind of pun. But it's true! Given the premise, I kind of expected something like late-night Cinemax fare. But this film gave me way more than that. The affair in the story plays out in a very real, un-soapy kind of way. I believed in the reality of the characters and I felt for them. That's not to say the film isn't sexy... it is. But it's done with more sophistication and aplomb than one might expect. Well shot and especially well acted, by two very beautiful young actors. (The student kind of reminded me of a young Johnny Depp.) A very enthusiastic recommend for this movie!

Saw The Boy Next Door with JLo a few years ago. This actually plays the idea straighter and I thought the acting and camerawork is good. Some people might not like it because of the subject matter but I thought it was cool.

A movie faced with actors who cant act. Glorifying a student teacher relationship. At times I felt like I was watching an Ex rated movie! I watched the best part of 30 minutes before I fell asleep to wake up to them in bed. What the actual eff... want my 30 minutes back please!

This will be very tough subject matter for those coming to it with preconceived opinions and overly judgmental attitudes. But let's be honest, these things do happen, and probably more often than we'd care to admit. Forbidden love, student-teacher relationships are doomed from the outset, and this film makes that clear in the very beginning. Performances from the two leads are sensitive and realistic, and deserving of the many awards. Give this good indie drama a good look and don't be surprised to see these actors a lot more in the future.

Hear me out. Yes, this is a low budget production, yes, it is a bit cringe in some places, yes, it can feel a bit forced to some, BUT it is nonetheless a good story with good dialogue throughout. The two main actors are VERY attractive (especially the young man) and I would go so far to say that Jared Scott (Jason) plays his character a lot better/more genuine than the writer of the movie herself (Lila). The dialogue is quite genuine and realistic and it makes for an enjoyable movie. If this was a Netflix -backed production, it would've been very cringe and fake and unwatchable. This movie however delivers a powerful story and it does have a seed in reality I think. I really enjoyed the story and the development of the plot. Very good work!

Some serious fake reviews - specifically from October 2019. Cheesy, poorly acted Lifetime movie. The script is atrocious. If you enjoy Lifetime movies - give it a shot.

Only here to review the story and characters. What a knob this Jason, he got a decent lady to settle with and never deals a situation in a matured way always putting her in danger. He should cherish such relation but what a wasted soul.

Great that such films are made in US, Hollywood always shows everything's fine with women.

Acting is mediocre but the direction is sensitive to reflect the story. Expecting more love stories and scripts made close to real life, tired of all the useless marvel movies and cringe comedies. Sorry for the rant. Movies influence society, hope some of those influences are good.

Overall the acting is bad and makes the audience uncomfortable all the way through.

The choice of actors is not bad but I think the director must be quite inexperienced and did not provide any guidance to the actors. Most scenes have the potential to be good, it's a shame the execution is bad.

I didn't expect much from this movie but it is actually a hidden gem. It is an intriguing film all the way by a great cast of somewhat unknown actors. It feels real not like a normal potboiler. The dialogue is believable and I Found myself anxious waiting for what happen next. It was really exciting and not a dull moment. And I found myself feeling compassionate towards the two leads as they seemed to have a genuine connection of love.

The plot was bad, the acting was mediocre, the ending was terrible. Seriously do not understand the point of this movie!

"Before The Dawn" explores the viewer-dependent interpretation of a school teacher's empathy-turned-attraction for her adolescent student.

Lila Kendy (Alana de Freitas) is Ms. Kendy to you, should you be seated in her Catholic school classroom. She's presented as a committed educator, but her very real loneliness paired with her compassion for the struggles of youth summons in her a deep attraction to troubled student Jason (Jared Scott); a lad with great cheekbones who manages to be no less protypically pretty and actor-attractive than de Frietas herself in that Johnny Depp-ish, "21 Jump Street"-era sort of way. Soon, the two are flirting. Soon, they're sexing. But this story isn't sold as either a purely physical after-class tryst, or as a straight condemnation of their union tailored for PTA moms to rally behind. Instead, it's presented unashamedly as true love felt between two isolated people coming together, which as we know also isn't how the evening news (and potentially the court system) filters this forbidden tale. Of course, there's a prerequisite third wheel in the film, too, as rejected teacher-incel hybrid Mr. Matthews (Houston Rhines) can't self-check his own twisted, visceral condemnation to his discovery of it all.

It will be fascinating to see how "Before The Dawn" is received by disparate film consumers -- will they, on the mere simplicity of principle, reject Lila's emotional and physical engagement of her student as deviant and immoral, and potentially straight-up illegal (we're shrewdly never provided with Jason's age)? Or will they validate it by conceding that love -- even when society considers it utterly forbidden -- has a way of happening anyway? And as a whole different hairball, how will they process Lila's strategic reaction to Mr. Matthews' insidious behaviors? "Before The Dawn" is sure to prove polarizaring in these various ways. It's a deceptively plain-faced but potentially incendiary telling of this inconvenient but not-uncommon social phenomenon, which is sure to lead to a divided room of viewers. That's certainly also the film's coy ambition, as "Before The Dawn" provides for some ripe and engrossing post-processing.

Dreadful acting, predictable storyline and absolutely no chemistry between these two whatsoever. Don't bother.

Good lord, this movie has been made dozens of times since the 80s...and almost always better. Clumsy plot development, predictable, cliche-ridden dialogue, bad acting, gaping plot holes; this one's got it all. At least the boy is incredibly hot.

One of the few movies that I actually gave up on and turned off before the end. Life is too short to waste the time watching this.