A Killer Among Friends

TV Movie
1992
Not Rated
1h 36m

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Tiffani Thiessen, Angie Rae McKinney, and Margaret Welsh in A Killer Among Friends (1992)

A grieving mother sets out to find the murderer of her daughter.A grieving mother sets out to find the murderer of her daughter.A grieving mother sets out to find the murderer of her daughter.

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6.6/10

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MissyBaby

A Killer Among Friends. The very title creeps me out. I personally enjoyed this movie. But, I agree, Ellen was very twisted. Jenny hadn't done anything wrong. She didn't deserve to die. Ellen should have hanged. I have a question for anybody who's seen it. There was a character by the name of Susan.......where do we see Susan?

5MarieGabrielle

Not bad, if....

you can get past Loretta Swit trying to act as an intelligent police detective, with a brunette wig.

Tiffani Amber-Thiessen is the victim and Patty Duke is her over-protective mother. This film is similar to "Bully" in that it shows the inhuman treatment some students project one each other, sometimes for no reason at all, other than jealousy. This film was loosely based on a true story.

The problem with some TV movies like this is they use someone with a too high TV Q/persona (Swit) and it takes away from the substance of the story. 5/10

10jameswallwork

Decent Movie about a terrible crime.

This is certainly one of the best made for TV crime films I've watched recently.

The storytelling is great and the acting is fantastic especially, from the main leads Patty Duke and Margaret Welsh.

Both ladies did an excellent job portraying their characters. Patty made you feel the hurt, pain and anger that Irene Avila must have gone through when she lost her daughter as her character Joan in the movie. Equally, Margaret did a brilliant job at portraying the envious, manipulative and ultimately murderous Karen Severson as the character Ellen.

I'd definitely recommend watching this film especially, if you like crime films based of true cases.

7apfortony

better than average TV flick

Another made-for-TV movie inspired by true events, this movie is rerun on lifetime quite often. It's scary to contemplate a person treating another human being like the girls in this film. This movie is better than most "women in jeopardy, inspired by the story of" television flicks of the late 80s/early 90s. Patty Duke is excellent as bereaved mother and Loretta Swit (Hot Lips from M*A*S*H) lends solid support as the investigating detective who tries to keep Duke's character from jeopardizing the case. A very sad disturbing film.

derhds13

A disturbing story

This one of the most disturbing TV Movies I have ever watched. Ellen is a completely disturbing psychopath and you might get scared to watch her. When the truth comes out about Jenny's murder, you aren't going to be shocked about who did it (you know from the second it happens), but you will be shocked about how it was done. A horrible scene to watch was Jenny's death scene. It was a shame because this girl (Jenny) did nothing wrong and these girls' reasons for killing her were complete misunderstandings about what they thought they saw.

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Trivia
After filming, Tiffani Thiessen who plays Jenny Monroe, met the Avila family.

Goofs
When Jenny is waiting for Carla on the porch, she takes a purple seashell mirror from her purse. When Carla comes to pick her up, she puts the mirror in the purse. As she gets into Carla's car she is carrying the purse with her--during the death scene, when Jenny gets out of the car her purse is still in Carla's car. But when Jean is given the clothes and items Jenny was wearing during her death, her purse isn't visible either meaning it is still in Carla's car. However, later on when Jean and Cheryl are cleaning out Jenny's room, Cheryl picks up the purple sea shell mirror out of Jenny's makeup basket. It couldn't possibly have been in the basket if it was still in the purse, which Jean doesn't have.