Ed-Shullivan This review is written from an open minded male father's perspective. The film was difficult to watch as a father who would not want his own daughter having to earn her university tuition making adult films, nor being harassed by both male and female college students insulting her for her choice of employment and propositioning her to have group sex. Funny hah hah? No! Funny nah nah! People make personal choices in their life but they should not be openly criticized just because we may not agree with what we may consider to be a poor choice.On the other hand I would be even more uncomfortable if my daughter earned her income working the grave shift at a gas bar where she could get robbed and/or raped by gunpoint with no one around to stop the crime. I would also not want my daughter operating a crane 50 stories up in the air, or excavating coal 200 feet under the earth surface all considered to be dangerous but acceptable employment from the mass perspective.The message I absorbed from this made for TV film loosely based on the true story of the life of Miriam Week's using the stage name Belle Knox while performing in adult films and attending Duke University where her annual tuition fees were $60K a year Miriam relieved herself from the financial stress of her choice of school's expensive tuition and unfortunately replaced that with even a greater stress by attempting to maintain a secretive life in the adult porn industry from her family and school friends. One would ask why didn't she just apply for government loans? Miriam did apply to the government for financial assistance but she was turned down by the government.Yes, there is a seedy side to working in the adult film industry where women appear to be the subject of pay for play but ask yourself this question. How many men in adult films make as much money as their female co-stars do? Although I did not agree with Miriam Week's choice of employment she appears to have come out of the experience all in one piece and she has a message for the rest of the world. University tuition is very expensive and maybe Bernie Sanders should run again for the U.S. presidency in 2020 to have his platform succeed, free tuition for all students and free health care. Even the adult film actors would be in favor of that platform. It appears that Miriam Weeks may take up the stand in her future political career if Bernie would only agree to support her.I give this made for TV film a decent 6 out of 10 rating.

adogsmother She decides to do porn rather than take student loans because she doesn't want to have to pay back the loans. How can one have any sympathy for this character. Turned off movie after 30 minutes. Offensive message.

lambiepie-2 I watched this without knowing any of the background material and thinking that it was just your typical 'Lifetime Weekly Movie'. I couldn't imagine a real young lady turning to porn to pay for College. But this one did.This character's flaw of bad decision-making was evident when you hear that she did receive offers from several colleges but she was "set on going to Duke". While that is admirable, I think no matter what, compromise and planning could have landed her in a better life decision circumstance. It was a question I am sure that was running through the mind of the viewer.One big flag in this film for me is that I could not ignore that this woman was offered a full ride to another excellent college, but she was "set on going to Duke". This is a choice that young people need to put pen and paper to and analyze it with their parents. Apply to scholarships, etc. One should not get hung up on "one school". But she did, and the resulting personal decisions to stay in that school is what this is about. Her parents thought they could afford it, but circumstances dictated they could not. So what does she do...? Figure out she needs a lot of money fast. A part-time job won't cover it either. Didn't seem like a real life choice, but for this person -- it was. As she dives into that world, you discover that she has had major self-esteem problems before that - that were not properly resolved.Then there is the "women's empowerment" message for the audience. Is it a crutch, a cover for trying to rationalize this with paying for higher education's skyrocketing and out of reach costs, or does she truly think that doing porn is empowerment for the women doing it? She wants the audience to believe women can do whatever they wish with their body, not be bullied about the choices, not know about negative consequences and covering it up under "women empowerment" rather than "a really bad choice when other options were available to ... HER."If one is to feel sorry for her as her double life is exposed, I couldn't. If I were to get a 'women's empowerment' message out of this, I couldn't accept one. It may have empowered her, but not everyone agrees on that type of choice as an empowerment.This film is on par with most Lifetime made Weekly Movies - "female watch bait". It a story told from the woman who did it perspective. It wasn't laid out as a cautionary tale, a tale of how college costs are skyrocketing, nor a tale where one should feel sorry for the character 'having to resort to this to pay for school'. It's just a tale of how one woman ignored other avenues of assistance, other schools to attend (or transfer to Duke later, why not?)and how she was shamed by students, etc., students but stood up for the way she acquired the money. Not a good lesson here as many Lifetime Movie Bio-pics try to do, but an interesting film to watch in how it was done.

DilbertW01 I watched this movie and was absolutely speechless. This movie is a shining example of why so many of the young women of today are so messed up in the head. They have confused women empowerment with "I will do what I want to do, and you WILL ACCEPT it no matter what! If you don't accept it, I am the pathetic victim for YOUR lack of acceptance and tolerance".This whole movie is the young girl making bad choice after bad choice and then crying that everybody will not just accept what she is doing. It is really pathetic. I love the way that she tries to justify the porn industry as some liberal feminist playbook move. Last I checked, most liberal feminists DESPISE the porn industry exactly for what some women are subjected to by it.I also did not appreciate the portrayal of conservatives, Catholics or the southern states. They are portrayed as the great evil in this movie for not accepting her stupid decisions. They even made the mother at the hotel checkout desk for wanting to protect her family / children from the smut convention in the hotel as a horrible woman. Well, motherhood, you sure took it right up the keister on that one from Lifetime.The most disturbing part is the ending. When she says that she is going into politics. Great. Just what the democrat party needs. Another scummy, liar spouting views about women's rights while degrading women in one of the worst ways (i.e. Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Elliott Spitzer and too many to list here). It is no wonder so many of these young ladies are coming out of college spewing the crap like that which is portrayed in this movie. I have a relative who has recently graduated college. He didn't date much in college because so many of the girls were just like this idiot in the movie. He has met a young lady who doesn't believe being a strong minded woman means having to subscribe to the Hilary Clinton / Gloria Steinem handbook. It also does not mean being a strong woman means that all men should be weak-minded wimps. She also does not think it is necessary to cut his testicles off to be a strong woman.Avoid the piece of crap. It is not even the usual preaching of political correctness that Lifetime spews out of its bowels.Addendum: I thought about this after my original review. Many of the liberal feminists who have reviewed this laughable piece of crap try to justify the actress and her involvement with the porn industry. What makes it hypocritical at its worst is that these are the same feminists who will protest outside of Hooters saying that girls working there are being exploited as sex objects...... huh????? I would rather see my daughter working at Hooters while she is working through college instead of doing porn, endangering her life, risking pregnancy or catching a lethal disease. Then again, liberal feminism, like most of the liberal / progressive / statist agenda is based on hypocrisy.