Betrayed at 17 - 2011 ****

Tragic story about a teenage girl whose life is destroyed after a tape of her having sex with a boy from school is spread around the whole institution. The boy in question films the encounter but is not the one who forwards it to everyone, that person in question has a much darker agenda.
I enjoyed it, but it also genuinely shocked me.

The Children's Hour - 1961 **1/2

This was a very depressing film. Hepburn and MacLaine play two schoolteachers who come under devastating scrutiny after a pupil starts up a rumour that the pair are lovers. This results in a complete loss of their livelihood and their pupils being taken away.
It is a bleak story of what happens when rumours are given fuel and the sorts of things slander can do to a person. Very sad. And based on a true story.