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 Death of a Cheerleader is a 2019 Lifetime Made-for-TV Movie. It's a remake of 1994's A Friend to Die For, which became a popular rerun for Lifetime under the Retronym Death of a Cheerleader, so they used that title for the remake.As with the earlier movie, it's a loose fictionalization of the 1984 murder of high school sophomore Kirsten Costas by her classmate Bernadette Protti, a crime that resident school Emo Teen Nancy Kane was briefly suspected of until Protti confessed. This movie is actually set as a period piece in 1984, and expands the role of the wrongly-blamed girl (Monica in the 1994 movie, Nina here), while giving all the characters new names and some characterization changes.Hollybrook High School student Bridget Moretti (Aubrey Peeples) is a somewhat dorky girl who gets invited to join the Bobettes, an elite sorority-esque group at the school, along with pretty and popular Kelly Locke (Sarah Dugdale). Nina Miller (Morgan Taylor Campbell) is also invited but turns down the invitation. While Bridget views Kelly as the ideal of what she wants to be, Nina regards Kelly as exactly what she doesn't want to be; she dyes her hair and starts taking on an edgy persona, which attracts ridicule from Kelly. Hurting from her rejection from the cheer squad (among other disappointments), Bridget becomes desperate to strike up a friendship with Kelly and makes up a phony party invitation to lure her out of the house. Once Kelly figures out the truth, she escapes, but Bridget follows and eventually stabs Kelly. The cops focus on Nina, who has a solid alibi for the night, except she lied about it to avoid getting in trouble with her mom. Bridget becomes an emotional wreck once the police start to close in on her.Death of a Cheerleader features most of the same tropes as A Friend to Die For, but adds these:
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