She's Too Young (2004)

Directed by

Tom McLoughlin

Genre

teen film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother discovers that her 14 year old daughter is involved in risky sexual behavior with other teens. She confronts the pressures of drugs, alcohol, and peer influence in a sexually charged media environment.

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What happens

She's Too Young is an American-Canadian coproduced made-for-TV movie released in 2004, starring Marcia Gay Harden as the mother of a 14-year-old daughter who is involved in sexual acts hidden from her parents. The film deals with the issues of drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, parenting an adolescent, the influence of the sexually-driven media, teen partying, and syphilis. The movie was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the school scenes being shot at Halifax West High School. Though the film does not acknowledge this outwardly, the events of this film were partly inspired by a syphilis outbreak that occurred in a well-off suburb of Atlanta in 1996, where over 200 teenagers were exposed. The incident was chronicled in a Frontline episode called "The Lost Children of Rockdale County". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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