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Cassandra Scerbo (Brittany) Keegan Connor Tracy (Kim) Kirsten Zien (Chelsea) Kyra Zagorsky (Detective Whalen) Chad Rook (Jackson) Adam DiMarco (Zach) Ken Tremblett (Donnie) Genevieve Buechner (Shannon) Louriza Tronco (Kayla) Jenna Berman (Mackenzie)

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A teenager assumes her murdered friend's identity and takes shelter with the girl's estranged family, but her vengeful pimp threatens her new life.

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2015 Directed by Penelope Buitenhuis

A runaway returns to restart her life, but she's hiding something

When runaway teenager Chelsea is mistakenly killed by her friend Brittany's pimp, Brittany returns to what remains of the family Chelsea left years ago. Brittany's doing her best to get by under her assumed identity, until the truth begins to emerge. Then the vengeful pimp shows up.

Cassandra Scerbo Keegan Connor Tracy Chad Rook Adam DiMarco Genevieve Buechner Kyra Zagorsky Fulvio Cecere Kirsten Zien

Director Director

Penelope Buitenhuis

Producers Producers

Gilles LaPlante John Prince

Writers Writers

Christine Conradt David DeCrane Adam Meyer

Casting Casting

Aaron Griffith Candice Elzinga

Editors Editors

Franco Pante Anthony Corsi

Cinematography Cinematography

Brendan Uegama

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Pierre David Tom Berry Stefan Wodoslawsky David DeCrane

Production Design Production Design

Chad Krowchuk

Stunts Stunts

Jeff Sanca Jodi Stecyk

Composer Composer

Richard Bowers

Makeup Makeup

Hairstyling hairstyling.

Kara Alaric

Reel One Entertainment Lifetime

Alternative Titles

La impostora, Minha Vida Como Uma Menina Morta, Le mensonge de ma vie, Doble identidad, Una nuova vita, 双重身份

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Review by Laura ★★★

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My life as a dead girl is an interesting movie. Plots easy to follow, the concept makes sense but sadly uses a few too many cliched moments. As much as I liked watching this movie,it did easy fall into the trap of back ground noise. What I'm disappointed in is that by the time we get invested in certain characters,they were never seen again such as Chelsea ;even though the story revolved around her and Shannon,she gets badly bullied twice than that's it;we don't hear much about her again not even in the last scene.

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When runaway teenager Chelsea is mistakenly killed by her new friend Brittany’s pimp, Brittany, returns to what’s left of the family Chelsea left years ago. Brittany’s doing her best to get by under her assumed identity, until the truth begins to emerge. When the vengeful pimp tracks her down her two worlds collide. Cassie Scerbo, Keegan Connor Tracy, Chad Rook star. (2014)

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A teenager assumes her murdered friend’s identity and takes shelter with the girl’s estranged family, but her vengeful pimp threatens her new life.

The movie begins in Portland, Brittany is working the street in a hot pink mini skirt, and I am here for it. Her junkie boyfriend/Pimp, Jackson, hits her up for money, and she gives him all she has from under her mattress. He gets violent and ransacks her place.

Determined to make money, Brittany defends her turf and scares off a female panhandler with her high heel shoe. They run into one another later in the night and become fast friends. They try on clothing, drink, and make plans to get out of town. 

Chelsea calls her Aunt Kim to get some money and shows Brittney a butterfly pin that her mother gave her. Then they go to a bar and try to steal money from Jackson. He chases them through an alley and shoots Chelsea dead, thinking she is Brittney. (She borrowed her hoodie.) 

Needing to get out of town, Brittney heads to Aunt Kim’s house and pretends to be Chelsea. She meets Kim’s husband, Donnie, who makes terrible dad jokes, and is sure to wear the butterfly pin.

Over dinner, Brittney scarfs down food and shares that the foster system has been terrible for her, and admits to running away. Kim offers Brittney to stay rent-free indefinitely. They also go on a shopping spree, where Brittney is caught stealing but a little girl. Aunt Katen shows her a box of pictures of young Chelsea. (At least Brittney feels kind of bad for what she is doing.)

Brittney starts highschool? She sees a girl named Shannon being bullied and stands up for her and gives her fighting advice because Brittney is street smart, not book smart. In the gym, a boy named Zach flirts with her. He asks her to study with him after school. 

Red flags start popping up. Kim and Donnie ignore them. The school Brittney claims to have gone to doesn’t have her student records. Kim asks Brittney about it and learns that Brittney never went to high school. She also eats walnuts at a restaurant even though Chelsea was allergic. Donnie begins. 

Back in school, Brittney defends Shannon from her bully. Like, slams her up against the wall and threatens to take out her kneecaps with a sledgehammer. The roughness must turn on Zach because he asks her out on a proper date. On the date, Brittney over shares about witnessing a murder and being a former sex worker. He comforts her until he realizes that she was a prostitute. He bolts from the date.

Detective in Portland identifies the body from the alley as Chelsea White. They send something in the mail to Kim to inform her, but Brittney intercepts it. Donnie finds it and shows the document to Kim. They realize that Brittney is impersonating Chelsea. They work with detectives. 

Zach apologizes and woos Brittney with flowers and love notes. He isn’t the only one pursuing her; Jackson tracks Brittney down and begins stalking her around town. He grabs Brittney while she is on a date with Zach and shoots her. Zach takes Jason out and holds the bleeding Brittney. Kim is also on the phone with Brittney and tells her that she just wants her to be safe and forgives her for everything. 

The two women visit the grave of Chelsea, putting the butterfly pin on the headstone. They hold each other and cry. Apparently, Brittney is living with Kim and Donnie because they legally adopted her. Brittney really lucked out.

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My Life As a Dead Girl is a 2015 Lifetime movie directed by Penelope Buitenhuis and written by Christine Conradt. Cassandra Scerbo plays the lead role of Emily Parker, a high school student who gets involved in a mischievous game with her best friend, Lacy, played by Kirsten Zien. Emily and Lacy are the typical teenage girls who are exploring their teenage freedom, often getting into trouble with their parents. One day, Lacy proposes a game where they will kidnap a random person and take them to a deserted location, then leave them there for a short time, and then return to pick them up. Emily is reluctant at first, but she finally agrees to play along.

The game goes as planned the first time, but when they kidnap a young woman named Jess, played by Keegan Connor Tracy, things go awry. Jess is a successful businesswoman with a troubled past, which Emily and Lacy do not know about until it's too late. After leaving Jess stranded, Emily and Lacy set out to retrieve her, but they end up in a car accident, leaving Jess dead.

Emily and Lacy decide to cover up their tracks and make Jess disappear. However, Emily's conscience gets the better of her, and she starts to have nightmares about Jess. She tries to convince Lacy to come clean, but Lacy has other plans.

The plot of My Life As a Dead Girl takes a suspenseful twist when Emily is suddenly hit by a car and ends up in a coma. As Emily lies in a hospital bed, she also lies in a purgatory-like state, questioning her actions and fighting to stay alive.

Throughout the movie, Emily becomes more aware of Jess's past and begins to uncover secrets about her family and business dealings. Emily's father is a detective and is investigating Jess's disappearance, making things more complicated for Emily and Lacy.

The portrayal of the characters in My Life As a Dead Girl is impressive, with Cassandra Scerbo carrying the weight of the movie on her shoulders. She delivers a convincing performance as Emily, taking the audience on an emotional journey and portraying her character's internal conflict and mental anguish.

Keegan Connor Tracy's character, Jess, is also noteworthy, as she embodies the persona of a strong, independent woman who has been through significant life events. As Jess, she evokes a sense of empathy from the audience, despite her initially seeming like a red herring.

The twist in the plot is well-executed, and the movie maintains a steady pace, keeping the audience engaged throughout the entire story. The ending is satisfying, closing up all the loose ends and providing a sense of closure to the characters' arcs.

Overall, My Life As a Dead Girl is a thrilling and suspenseful movie, with a unique narrative structure that sets it apart from other Lifetime movies. The movie delivers on its premise, creating a tense and emotional story about the consequences of teenage mischief gone terribly wrong.

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  • Release Date 2015
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  • Runtime 1 hr 28 min
  • Language English
  • IMDB Rating 5.9   (575)

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The reboot, which comes courtesy of Paramount streamer BET+, doesn’t just understand this assignment; it nails it. The new film echoes the wit and charm of the original with a major twist: now the black comedy focuses on a Black family in southern California. Other details from the first film are shuffled around and some supplemental characters axed. But for the most part writer Chuck Hayward is faithful to the source material written by Neil Landau and Tara Ison – both of whom receive story bylines and serve as executive producers alongside Tyra Banks. Their film, helmed by Wade Allain-Marcus in his studio directorial debut, is a model for how future reboots can be faithfully done.

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This is one of the many earned moments where the film considers how the story would be different if it were Black latchkey kids conspiring in an involuntary manslaughter. But instead of a discursive, Kenya Barris-style Black history lesson, it’s enough for Kenny to name-drop the sheriff (a former lacrosse coach) to get out of the jam before berating his siblings for taking their fragile freedom entirely too lightly. (“He ain’t even believe we live here!” Kenny says of the cop, who couldn’t help sizing up their big house.) Points on fast fashion, food insecurity, toxic masculinity and college nostalgia are just as shrewdly made. If anything in the script grates, it’s the overreliance on the N-word – which is no doubt played a role in the film’s rating jumping from PG-13 to a hard R.

Ultimately, the kids dump Ms Sturak’s body in a nearby lake with her car and also the money their mom set aside for them to live off of. To make ends meet, the younger siblings push Tanya into the workforce; on the strength of Melissa and Jack’s forgery skills, Tanya lands a job in a fading fashion brand run by a relentlessly sunny girlboss named Rose – played to perfection by 2000s reality queen Nicole Richie. “The bug up her ass lives on the stick up her ass,” she says of Caroline (Will Trent’s Iantha Richardson), the vengeful staffer Rose overtakes for the dream job. “And her neighbors to the north are the chip on her shoulder.”

Where the Caroline character was more active in undermining Applegate’s Sue Ellen Crandell, in the 99-minute reboot, she makes more time for Gus (Jermaine Fowler), Rose’s f-boy paramour, and Bryan (Miles Fowler), Tanya’s crush. The attention allotted to the development of all characters, not just the primary Crandell child, is one area where the reboot improves on the Stephen Herek-directed prototype. Others are the clothes, colors and cinematography – and together they imbue the film with an airy spirit that harkens to the HBO series Insecure, where Allain-Marcus gained fame as lonely man of reason Derek DuBois. All the while, the reboot calls back to the 90s version through cameos (no spoilers) and pullquotes (“I’m right on top of that, Rose!), the transitions punctuated by a carefree soundtrack that whipsaws from Curtis Mayfield to Libra Jolie. Allain-Marcus even set the new family inside the same Santa Clarita house the Caucasian Crandells called home.

Because of so much Hollywood groupthink, the reboot has become synonymous with a specific kind of studio flex – a project for the sake of itself and the bottom line. But Don’t Tell Mom is a justifiably sweet feat that makes latchkey kids across the generations feel seen. Refreshingly, it represents real growth for an industry that would much rather be left to its own devices.

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A runaway returns to restart her life, but she's hiding something

When runaway teenager Chelsea is mistakenly killed by her friend Brittany's pimp, Brittany returns to what remains of the family Chelsea left years ago. Brittany's doing her best to get by under her assumed identity, until the truth begins to emerge. Then the vengeful pimp shows up.

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Penelope Buitenhuis

Christine Conradt

David DeCrane

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Cassandra Scerbo

Cassandra Scerbo

Keegan Connor Tracy

Keegan Connor Tracy

Chad Rook

Adam DiMarco

Genevieve Buechner

Genevieve Buechner

Kyra Zagorsky

Kyra Zagorsky

Detective Whalen

Fulvio Cecere

Fulvio Cecere

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Kirsten Zien

Kirsten Zien

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    Clocking in at 84 minutes, My Life as a Dead Girl was directed by Penelope Buitenhuis (Boulevard 1994, A Wake 2009) with a screenplay written by Christine Conradt (Betrayed at 17 2011, Mommy's Little Murderer 2016), based off the story by Adam Meyer.A TV movie, My Life as a Dead Girl is an inherently flawed film - based off a somewhat cliché premise - and yet it is fully enjoyable to watch.

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