Sadly Over-hyped

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

What are viewers expected to feel while watching this movie? Glad that the girl who falsely accused a boy of raping her and drove him to suicide got to live? Didn't feel it.Glad that there "must be" a tenth circle of hell for her to go to after hurting her family by lying to them and then going back to life? Glad that there's that circle of hell for her after she drove her beloved boyfriend to suicide based on lies and manipulation? Glad that the boyfriend died after he was "punished" for dumping that prize of a girlfriend Trixi? (nice name for someone so tricky and manipulative BTW)Sorry for the wife because she has a boring marriage and a house husband? Glad for her that she is breaking school rules by sleeping with her drug dealing student to make herself feel better about said boring marriage? Glad that she covered up for her daughters lies? Glad for her that her pesky daughter is out of her hair while she's doing what she wants?Glad that they can all go back to biding their time on earth before arriving at the tenth circle of theirs?I didn't feel any of that. I was waiting for them all to be hit by a bus while the boyfriend and school full of kids stood laughing at them. Films like this make it hard for real victims of rape to be believed. It also provides teasing fodder for other students at schools where these rapes happen.

***SPOILERS*** Movie version of Jodi Picoult's 2006 novel "The Tenth Circle" has 15 year old Trixi Stone, Brittany Robertson, in attempting to get beck her dreamboat boyfriend, the handsomest boy at Bethel High school, Jason Underhill, Jamie Johnson, ends up getting raped by him! Or so Trixie in her drug confused mind thinks! Jason had dropped Trixi for what he feels is the future Miss America Jessica Rinchley, Leah Fassett, that has the heart broken and depressed young girl on the verge of committing suicide. At a wild drug and beer party that Jason is attending Trixi tries to get him jealous by hitting on Jason's friend Moss Milton, Geordie Brown, that ends up with her left unconscious and feeling that she's been raped. As it turns out,in Trixi's mind, it's non-other then Jason who's accused of raping Trixi and he's forced to suffer the consequences of that horrendous act.With his basketball collage scholarship canceled and Jessica forced by her parents to dump him the young man ends up getting good and drunk and attempting to force Trixi to tell he truth about what he did or didn't to to her that fateful night at the drug & beer party! This has Trixi's outraged father Daniel, Ron Eldard, grab Jason on the street and really give him a work over having Jason, a track and field star in high school, run so fast that he by being too drunk to see straight hit a poll and almost crack his skull open! It's later when Jason is found dead from a fall off the Prospect Street bridge that Daniel is arrested and charged in his murder in that the entire one-sided fight with Jason was caught on a cellphone camera by a person at the scene! It's later when Trixi's mom high school teacher Laura Stone, Kelly Preston, finds out that the local Bethel High School drug dealer Seth, Jon Cor, supplied her with the date drug that knocked her out that she suddenly gets cold feet in trying to link Jason to her daughter's rape! It's Seth a student of Laura's at Bethel High who's been having a hot heavy and drunken affair with her and that wouldn't look too good to not only the school's principle but her meek and home bound, he works as a cartoonist, husband Daniel. The mysterious about his past Daniel has kept secret his history of violence back in his home state of Alaska where he was convicted of manslaughter of his best friend as well as having a reputation of being the town bully!Meanwhile back at Bethel High life has turned into a living hell for Trixi with her being accused of faking her being raped, no seaman was found on her or her clothes, by Jason and driving him to kill himself. It's when Seth in taking a chance by seeing Laura at her home explained to her that he was the person who sold her the drugs that lead to Trixi getting "raped" that she panicked in trying to keep a lid on it!****SPOILERS**** This all lead to the movie's shocking conclusion that cold December night on the Prospect Street bridge where a drunk and despondent Jason ended it all but only with the help of the only person who was there for him when he needed someone but didn't have the psychical strength to save him!

I just finished watching the "Tenth Circle" on lifetime. I wanted to enjoy the movie, truly I did. But, I did not like it at all. The characters were not at all developed. Daniel looks way too feminine to be the strong silent father who hides a secret. Trixie comes off as much more mature than 15 and in completely unconvincing in her role as a victim or confused and angst teenager. Why couldn't they make her the red head as was in the book? Why a blond bimbo looking girl? Kelly Preston as Laura was flat and unmoving. I felt nothing for her or her position. When she was telling her version of events - I yawned.While I know it is tough to transform a good book into a good movie, it seems little effort, if any was put into this movie. The movie makes many changes, that initially one would not think would make a difference, but, they truly do. Subtle yet important differences, that in the end make the difference between a good story and a blah waste of two hours.This movie could have been completed in 15 minutes.What a waste of talent.

OK Im not really that good with being smart and all that. So this comment probably won't help you one bit!!! But I love the book. I saw the movie and I loved it! And thats how I found about the book in the first place. I just started reading the book and Im sorry if Im repeating myself. But I love both the book and the movie. When I get done reading the book then I'll put away better comment. But I just was trying to get a point out. I think both of them are wonderful. Now I just have to babble because this isn't long enough. But for whoever reads this....Please tell me the difference between the book and movie...But please don't spoil the ending!!!!