Terrific suspense thriller where 2 girls certainly get more than what they bargained for when they attend a college party. One girl is drugged to death and her friend is soon blamed for her death when the killer drugged her as well and planted narcotics in her purse.
The rest of the story is devoted to hunting down the girl who is able to escape while being transported to a facility. Clever, she is able to trace the culprit to the economics department at the college. Problem throughout is that no one will really believe her except a police woman who is being pressured to get results from her superior, her former ex-husband.
Fugitive at 17
2012
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Fugitive at 17
2012
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
Holly Hamilton is a fearsomely independent teenage girl who is always helping the people she cares about, often using her expert computer hacking skills to do so: whether it's hacking into a college database to see if her best friend Blake got an early acceptance, or by defrauding a health insurance corporation to help her very sick grandmother get a kidney transplant. She's not afraid to break the law a little, as long as it means helping someone she loves. But her luck takes an incredibly bad turn when she and Blake go to a rave to celebrate Blake getting into college, and Blake meets a mysterious older man who kills her by slipping her an overdose of a date rape drug. What's even worse is that this man then attacks Holly and frames her for the crime! And because of Holly's less than lawful behavior in the past, the cops are convinced that she is responsible for her best friend's death. But then one day, while she is getting transferred to juvenile hall, a breakout attempt happens to free another detainee, and Holly is forced to escape. Now on the loose, with the cops absolutely sure that she is guilty; Holly decides that she won't rest until she brings to justice the man who framed her, and who murdered her best friend.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Marie Avgeropoulos as Holly Hamilton
Casper Van Dien as Spencer Oliphant
Christina Cox as Detective Cameron Langford
Kate Drummond as Nurse
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 764.13 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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**** for Fugitive At 17
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Bad acting ruins good script
Sorry to disagree with most other reviews. I thought the story line was very good and some of the actors did adequate jobs. Noteworthy the Grandmother, the female detective, Christina Cox, and the friend played by Cindel Chartrand. But the leading player, Marie Avger. . .., was over the top acting and seemed out of place opposite the other performers. Sort of high school acting when others played simplicity and believable characters. You had sympathy and compassion for them. This critic felt nothing for the leading role of Holly. She acted too much in the part. I always like to find something positive in actors and their work. But in this one, I gotta say I just didn't like her work. Maybe too old for a high school student and one look on her face throughout the movie. A blank sort of stare. Walking around so obviously conspicuously that it was funny. The scene in the restaurant where there were two cops, she walks out hunched over with this stupid hood over her face. So obvious. And continues walking everywhere with the hood over her head. I just thought she was wrong in the role as compared to the others. Sorry.
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good for low budget TV movie.
Holly Hamilton (Marie Avgeropoulos) is an independent loner teen computer hacker who has a history with the cops. She has only one friend and her name is Blake. When they go to a bar to celebrate, Blake is lured away by a serial rapist. Holly goes in search of Blake and comes upon the rapist. He kills Blake and frames Holly for the crime.
This is a made-for-TV movie, and it looks like it. Luckily the story had a little bit of ambition which made it somewhat watchable. Marie Avgeropoulos is good looking and fairly physical. But she doesn't really have the facial expressions to do in-depth acting. The story has some tension, but the low budget just doesn't allow for big action. It's watchable, but forgettable.