High-schooler Nicole Gale Anderson learns big lessons about trust in this flimsy and cliché-packed crime tale that sees her framed for murdering a classmate by one of her best friends. Consequently, it's up to her tenacious mum (a robust Cynthia Gibb) to uncover the truth and reveal how a mean girl-style revenge plan turned deadly. Skeletal plotting ensures Gibb achieves her goals with unconvincing ease; outsmarting the two investigating cops, whose lame and incongruous banter proves the weakly written script's worst offence. A final-act shift into exaggerated, psycho-teen territory makes the narrative a tad meatier and allows Janet Montgomery to shine as Anderson's backstabbing - and increasingly unhinged - pal, but sadly poor direction robs even these more dramatic events of both suspense and emotional impact.