Juventude Roubada

Movie is called Stolen youth, so why give it a different name? It's too confusing. When I did a search here (IMDB), it wasn't coming up. It is titled a friends betrayal or similar!

Anyway, for an old movie it was ok. Bit slow

First case and point, I like to point out, is that this between them is not love. People confuse love with lust to often but what gets me is people are saying and I quote "that the mother is mean,selfish". An the people don't people to key parts of the movie where they speak about the history between th older woman and Paul's mom let's recap. Paul's mom confronts Nina an revealed that she knew Nina and Paul's father had affair for years behind Paul's moms, Nina is shocked to find that her friend well ex friend had known all these years about her affair with her husband. Plus let's not forget Nina has affairs with married men all the time which is also revealed, which is the reason why she is a single older woman with no family or steady relationship because has affairs with married men in hopes they will leave their wives for her, which they never leave their wives or the wife has found out an it breaks up family still they don't be with her in the end. So she comes to town and is on the rebound after breaking up with her married ex boyfriend who like all the other men in her life refuses to leave his wife for her! How for ironic of this story! So heartbroken and upset she starts a sexual affair with best friend's teenage son who is 18yrs old. Once again This is not love it's lust! Why? Because not to long ago Paul was just telling his high school sweetheart Cindy that he loves her (sighs) wow so your telling that after only knowing Nina for a short time fell out of love with Cindy and in love with Nina bullshit, he didn't really love her either , what he was feeling was lust not love and just because you share common interests like same color or favorite book,poem etc. Dose not mean your meant to be together. Yes they share common interests but they have two different life experiences trust that wouldn't have lasted because she would have at one point when to be with a man more her age or if he would have given up school etc. He would have years later blamed her even hated for his life turned out or could have been. Trust me I know and learned the hard way when I was 19yrs an got in a relationship with a 35 year old man,we had a common interests and every thing to but what we were feeling was lust I realized that later on so been there,done that but it's a good movie predictable but good.

I liked this film, sure the ending was a bit on the predictable side but for a change it is nice to see that the lovers were a younger man and older woman.

So many movies made where much older man has younger female lover but the roles are seldom reversed, and if ever they never come off without making the woman "evil." On the whole I liked this movie.

Also the fact Sharon Lawrence was the lover is a beautiful woman, and a great actor to boot.

This film recently aired on Lifetime, and it saddens me to see the same old woman vs. woman clichéd combat repeated on a network purportedly catering to women. That is, to the woman who follows all of society's stereotypes. Lawrence's character is demonized for corrupting the young man (when it is quite clear that he, not her, is the aggressor) and for incidents stemming, in fact, from the ranting mother's actions. The film lost me almost entirely when during a long hysterical scene brandishing words like "child molester" and threats to call the police it turned out that the fellow was 18 - an age legal for sexual activity in every state in the Union, then as now! The ending is predictable and caters to Moral "Majority" expectations.

The film had its moments, the cinematography was fine and the love scenes torrid, but you don't sit through two hours of film to see ten good minutes if you have any sense.

Rating: 4/10

I don't particularly like Sharon Lawrence, but I thought I'd give it a try... I rarely miss a Lifetime movie! Brian Austin Green has been in a bunch of Lifetime movies, and while they may not exactly be box-office thrillers, they're usually not bad, either. But this movie is exactly that ... bad. I cannot believe that I wasted two hours of my life sitting through this movie. I kept waiting for it to get better, but it never did. I definitely would not recommend this movie to anyone. You can certainly find something better to do with 2 hours ... even if it's staring at a wall! Feel free to e-mail me to discuss movies any time.