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A 2010 MadeForTVMovie Drama directed by Creator/BobbyRoth that has two sisters (Creator/JaneKaczmarek and Creator/KimDickens) trying to raise their teenage daughters (Creator/RebeccaWilliams and Creator/CarleighBeverly) when one of them starts getting abused by her boyfriend (Creator/NickThurston).

The movie also stars Creator/PeterOuterbridge, Creator/JoeDinicol, Creator/JordanHudyma, Creator/LolaTash, Creator/RebekahMiskin, and Creator/ShaniceBanton.

It aired on October 11, 2010 on Creator/{{Lifetime}}.

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!Tropes for the film:
* DisappearedDad: Kell's father is not in the picture, as her parents are divorced and it is mentioned by her aunt Marie that she warned Le Anne about the man.
* DomesticAbuse: The movie provides a textbook example of an abusive relationship. Elizabeth's relationship with Mark starts off sweet and innocent before he becomes possessive, controlling, and physically violent towards her. It only gets worse when he threatens to pull a MurderSuicide after she breaks up with him and gets a restraining order against him.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Mary Pipher's 1994 novel ''Reviving Ophelia: Saving the selves of Adolescent Girls''.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Elizabeth, while being held at gun point by Mark, calls him out on having a warped idea of love and that if he really wants to prove himself he would put down the gun, which he does and he gets arrested.

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