"Fifteen's no fairy tale."
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children: Augusta and Jack. However, when Augusta enters her teens, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation. With a concerned Martha realizing that it's not just typical teen angst, she reaches out to an educational consultant, who advises to send Augusta to a wilderness camp for troubled teens.
Sharon Lawrence
Martha Tod Dudman
Mika Boorem
Augusta
Tamara Hope
Rain
Currie Graham
John
Tim Matheson
Ben Dudman
Katie Stuart
Bridget
Andrea Whitburn
Daisy
Gabrielle Rose
Rose
Sage Testini
Jack
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children: Augusta and Jack. However, when Augusta enters her teens, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation. With a concerned Martha realizing that it's not just typical teen angst, she reaches out to an educational consultant, who advises to send Augusta to a wilderness camp for troubled teens.
Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches “Papa” Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life’s circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.
Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.
Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.