Rating: PG13
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 08/02/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Platinum Disc
Future Oscar winner
Hilary Swank gives an excellent account of herself in this made-for-TV movie as
Lisa Connors, a college student who is pressured into pledging for the campus' most prestigious sorority by her ambitious mother (
Isabella Hoffman). Among the other pledges is the desperately lonely and insecure
Shelby Blake (
Jenna von Oy), who, like
Lisa, is forced to endure unspeakable humiliations during the hazing process. When
Shelby dies in a fall from the college clock tower, her death is declared a suicide, but
Lisa doesn't buy this verdict (nor does the viewing audience, who knows that
Shelby was killed following the orders of snobbish sorority girl
Drea Davenport [
Sarah Chalke]). At the risk of her own reputation and academic future,
Lisa embarks upon a crusade to uncover the truth behind
Shelby's demise, making powerful enemies all along the way. Originally an "
NBC World Premiere Movie,"
Dying to Belong first aired February 24, 1997.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
