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Standard Lifetime movie fare. Cameron is a high school star soccer player that moves to a rival school. As she tries out for the team it seems the coach Rhonda will stop at nothing to derail Cameron's happiness. Coach Rhonda even uses her own daughter Hailey in her plot.

Nothing new here, but quite silly the coach can get away with so much without any consequences. Teens live for their phones now, but how unbelievable it is they never once take it out to record a confession or say... the kiss between a teacher and a student. Oh but of course you pull the phone out to record a kiss during a party.

Wouldn't the police have interviewed Paul after being hit by the car??? And what even happened to Paul, did he make it???? The movie never followed up.

Oh I guess the maintenance man found Kimmy locked up in the boiler room too. But by some miraculous way she was shown at the end being rescued off camera in time for the ending.

An earnest Sarah Grey carries a ludicrous, often unintentionally funny, telly movie. She (and handful of cute Canadian actresses playing high-schoolers) is the only reason to stay until the typical Lifetime ending although Christina Cox deserves a shout-out for the casual nastiness she brings to the titular role (aka Lethal Soccer Mom).

If you like to watch 'lifetime' movies and laugh at how ridiculous they are then this one is a beauty. The lengths this coach goes to to sabotage her own team are hilarious.

For the record, soccer scouts don't just draft strikers. The best players don't always play Center forward. Enjoyed this one anyway.

Watched this today & was immediately hooked. I usually like these types of films which have a edge-of-your-seat type theme about them. Thriller & deception esque.

The films story is about a young teenage girl named Cameron whose apart of the Wildcats Schools Football team, short after she & her mum move. She has a promising career in both her Football team & her chemistry class. But she soon finds herself the campaign for harassment as the coach of the Wildcats team & her daughter threaten to destroy Cameron's chances at the new school she attends. Cameron must find out whose behind this before it's too late.

I found the film to be pretty good. It took me in & kept me locked from start to finish. The acting was alright, but the editing was quite off in a couple of areas. But aside from that the film had a good pacing & run time & was enjoyable.

8/10

"Lethal Soccer Mom" (a.k.a., "Sidelined") is a taut drama about the competitive high school soccer scene at Rawley High School, home of the Wildcats. The film features probably the most monomaniacal and psychopathic coach on the planet.

Coach Rhonda lives through her daughter Hailey, whom she is grooming as the team's star striker. But when Cameron transfers from Westfield, where she led the team to a state championship, Coach Rhonda will do everything in her power to undermine Cameron's chances so that her daughter will not be upstaged.

In the course of the film, the coach is guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, harassment, academic dishonesty, pedophilia, and murder, not to mention child abuse. It is not unusual for a gifted athlete to transfer to a different school. For a good coach, Cameron would have been welcomed onto the team. Instead, Coach Rhonda makes her life a living hell.

The film was exceptionally well directed with good tension building in the midsection of the film and running to the end. The filming in the school included interesting camera angles, close-ups, and an eerie scoring motif. The performances were excellent, and the soccer field scenes were well-choreographed.

At the heart of the film is Cameron's nightmare at a new school. Her only support comes from her mother Kate. Both Coach Rhonda and Kate were living through their daughters' experiences. But, in the case of Kate, the love of a mother for her daughter trumped any obsession for the daughter to fulfill the mom's expectations. In the end, love conquers all even the machinations of a lethal soccer mom.