The Killing Secret

This is a very entertaining film concerning seniors graduating from high school and then planning to go on to college. The film takes place in a small town where everybody knows everybody and any gossip is spread around immediately. Soleil Moon Frye, (Emily DeCapprio) plays a young girl who falls in love with Greg Dunleavy,(Mark Kassen) and wants him to marry her before he goes to college and Greg at the same time is going out with Nicole Kass,(Ari Meyers) and having a ball playing the field with these two girls. Tess Harper,(Tina DeCapprio) gave an outstanding performance as the mother to Emily and was very close to her daughter and were considered rather poor compared to some of the other gals and guys she associated with in cheer-leading or sports. This film does have a rather sad ending and is nothing that I had intended to expect.

I enjoyed the movie even though I found it fairly predictable. The ineffectiveness of the police force seemed a little hard to believe. Ari is excellent in her role as the concerned "rich girl" with the handsome, jock boyfriend. The rest of the cast, especially Tess Harper who plays Soleil Moon Frye's grief-stricken but feisty mother are totally believable. I do find it hard to believe that Ari who was born in 1969 could still be playing a high school senior in 1997 (although she certainly looks the part). Was this movie made years earlier perhaps and held back from the public for some reason? Anyone know the answer?

Quite good, good acting, not unrealistic, and not a lot of useless scenes. I enjoyed it very much. This is a TV movie and is literally better than 90% of the movies I've seen that had absurd budgets.

Ari Meyers is also stunning.

Dated but watchable. A boy murdered his pregnant gf. He's also got an upper class girl. Coincidentally the latter befriends the Mother of the dead girl. The casting isn't great. The guy looks wrong side of the tracks instead of the wealthy guy he's supposed to be. The way he gets caught seems unrealistic.

Nicole Voss (Ari Meyers) is the head cheerleader, and Greg Dunleavy (Mark Kassen) is the captain of the football team. Together they form a perfect couple except he cheats on her with Emily DeCapprio (Soleil Moon Frye). She gets pregnant and makes demands on Greg. Greg turns and kills her. Meanwhile Nicole befriends missing Emily's mother Tina (Tess Harper) without knowing their other connection.

This would make a fairly good after school special or Lifetime movie. It has good elements in this. The young couple are nice white bread teenagers. Punky Brewster doesn't have that much screen time. Tess Harper is absolutely solid as the grieving mother.

There are problems with the last 15 minutes. The cop was too dismissive, and how hard is it for her to yell out that she found the button? Instead she steals a file from the cops. It would have been better if Greg just go nuts after the party. The final ending is just a big letdown.