On the Edge of Innocence
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Maxine Herman |
| Directed by | Peter Werner |
| Starring |
Kellie Martin James Marsden |
| Theme music composer | Dana Kaproff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Julie Cohen Dan Wigutow Joan Sittenfield Jeni Munn |
| Producer(s) |
Frederic W. Brost (line producer) Debbie Martin (co-producer) Kellie Martin (co-producer) Mea Squires (associate producer) |
| Cinematography | Neil Roach |
| Editor(s) | Paul Dixon |
| Running time | 90 mins. |
| Production company(s) |
Dan Wigutow Productions Paramount Network Television Productions |
| Distributor | NBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | April 20, 1997 |
On the Edge of Innocence is a 1997 television drama film directed by Peter Werner. It stars Kellie Martin as a manic-depressive teenager.
Despite being a straight A student, Zoe Tyler (Kellie Martin), a manic-depressive 17-year-old, constantly gets in trouble with her friends including Ann (Clea DuVall) due to angry outbursts caused by her refusal to take her medicine. One day, she skips school to hitchhike to San Francisco, California to visit her father at a piano concert. When the guy giving her a drive attempts to undress her, she screams and leaves the car, running back home where her mother Victoria (Karen Young) expresses her concern over her absence. In response, she runs away home to a nearby carnival, where she winds up dangling from a Ferris wheel. Her concerned mother decides that now something has to be done, and commits her daughter to a mental institution. Meanwhile, somewhere else Jake Walker (James Marsden), another 17-year-old, has difficulty respecting authority as well, even though he was raised by two forward, highly successful parents, one of whom is a respected lawyer, David (Terry O'Quinn). When he is not sleeping around with girls, Jake spends his day running away from the cops because of misdemeanors. One night, after a concert, he is arrested by the police and the judge advises for Jake to be in a juvenile facility. Preventing these hard measures to be done, David commits his son to the same mental hospital for a period of one month.
From the beginning, Zoe is pessimistic about her stay, feeling she does not belong in the institution. Nonetheless, she befriends Ally Winthrop (Lisa Jakub), a teenager who suffers from anorexia nervosa and constantly gets caught messing with her charts. When she is caught once again, Jake takes the blame and immediately becomes Ally's limelight, unlike for Zoe, who thinks that Jake is a low-life punk and rejects every attempt of him to get to know her. During her stay, Zoe meets the other patients, including the gay son of a military Luke (Jamie Kennedy), an extremely aggressive young man with family issues Timothy 'Trader' (Vince Vieluf), and a teenager who still has imaginary friends, Sammy (Joshua Jackson).
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