The story is about a girl who starts out with porn in order to pay for her tuition fees. The acting is quite ordinary, but the movie does a relatively good job stating both sides of the argument. It throws light on the high college fees and the difficulty that students face in order to pay for it. It also states how people see porn as bad for society, but then there are others who state that a person should not be shamed for it.The problem here lies in the message that the movie sends, which is that is doesn't matter what you work in as all jobs are 'good' jobs. Porn is definitely not a great thing. I also disagree with the argument that people show double standards when they watch porn themselves, but don't like a person doing porn. This is because even those who watch it know that it is wrong. In the movie, the protagonist knew that everyone around thought such as well, and she kept crying throughout the movie. She also knew that her family won't accept it.. yet she went on to do it. This is the very thinking that is plaguing this generation and supporting it will only burn society.If the point of the movie was to give a message (which I believe such movies should do), it should have been that a living can be earned by doing much more respectable jobs.

Haley Pullos stars in this Lifetime TV movie "Straight A's To XXX" that is based on the true-to-life story of a young freshman at Duke University who resorted to becoming a porn actress to sustain herself of her exorbitant college tuition fees after her parents were unable to do so during the course of her first year in College.It tells the story of how Michelle Weeks became Belle Knox on the private camera and how it affected her stay at Duke when she became a victim of overwhelming harassment,sex ridicule and cyberbullying when a fellow student exposed her to other students.Judd Nelson of The Breakfast Club fame co-star in it as the porn manager handling Belle.The movie was not your typical Lifetime TV movie as we get to see an uncommon story of Miriam/Belle and comes to focus on both her journey from being a straight A student to becoming a successful porn star who surprisingly became famous to the media for standing up for her life choices in porn by using the high expenses that Americans have to afford to get their college degrees.Aside from that,it also provides us her character transformation(good or bad?) from being a High School senior of the debating team up to the conclusion when she became a political activist learning to stand up for her rights.Some of my fellow IMDb reviewers stated that the TV movie brought up a lot of fiction on this TV movie to somehow be on the side of Miriam/Belle during the course of the film and avoided some part of her character such as that being a psychologically unfit to come up with her unexpected choices in life which others find immoral,ludicrous or unjustified. But nevertheless,the screenplay did well in bringing up two parts - both positive and negative - her becoming a porn star no matter how the audience may look at it.It was obvious that it brought up the both the good and ugly parts on how other people in her life perceived her differently from her parents,friends,fellow students,the media and her co-workers at pornography as well as the disasters to her emotions despite the TV movie screenplay being on her side on doing porn to finish college.Credit also must be given to the performance of Haley Pullos for she did well as Miriam/Belle.She definitely would make the audience feel for her throughout the film either positively or negatively and leave a good or bad impression on her after viewing the TV movie.

After recently watching an interview of a porn-star, I had some idea about what happens behind the scenes. The director here has tried his best to show it. The movie falters when the context of the good and bad side of a porn is brought into question. It only turns to the age-old conservative conclusion that porn is not good. That's a cliché in today's world. When we have already learned to accept all kind of jobs as it is.Lastly, the acting could have been better. The acting kind of seems mechanical. A life is missing in them. The dilemma of the protagonist is too unreal. On one hand, she knows what to expect from the porn industry and bravely joins it, on the other hand, she acts like a Disney princess oblivious to reality.A lot has gone into making the movie set but it surely lacks the content it wants to project.

The new Lifetime TV movie "From Straight A's To XXX" premiered tonight.It tells a story that is based on the true story of Miriam Weeks,also known by her stage name Belle Knox.Haley Pullos stars in this TV movie that tells the story of a college student at Duke University who resorted to becoming a pornographic star in order to support herself with her expensive college expenses at amounted to as much as $60,000 a year.Breakfast Club star Judd Nelson co-stars with Pullos,who also appears in the long-running daytime TV show,General Hospital,in this TV movie directed by Vanessa Parise.Interestingly,this new TV movie focused more on Belle's beliefs and her choices in life.Aside from that,it brought up issues that are affecting millions of Americans today such as rising expenses of getting a college education.Added to that,it brought up fact that the real Belle Knox,who evidently became a media celebrity,to defend her choice to becoming a porn actress to afford college.In her interviews in TV shows such as Young Turks or Piers Morgan at CNN,she defended her involvement in pornography as college has become less affordable to the average American as well as a part of her feminist views considering that she has the right to choose on how to use her body and what industry she can get involved in as long as it is legal and she isn't committing any crime.Aside from that,this also brought her empowerment as it brought another side of her from being a nerdy student and to another character or to her alter-ego known as Belle.Surprisingly,she is not asking sympathy from people especially those who criticize her as a "slut",brought her sexual ridicule or harassed her no end but to respect her choice as a porn actress to be able to afford college tuition and to defend pornography as a legal business.No question that we got more into a political drama.Didn't she become an activist at the conclusion?The screenplay did a good job on providing a balanced views on Belle's choices.It provides defense on the logic of her choice and it also presents those who do not agree with her decision through the characters that she is in conversation with as they bring up the issue of lack of fulfillment and happiness,morality of the job that she is engaged with,and her character's naivety and lack of wisdom being only 18 years old.The viewer may agree or disagree with Belle particularly her views and her choice to resort to porn as a way to support college.Obviously,the viewer is allowed to think about it while watching the TV movie and given the opportunity to evaluate her beliefs and her character whether they are worthy of respect or not.With that,it makes it good TV movie to watch since it isn't typical of a Lifetime movie that would normally present a clichéd and predictable movie that a viewer is usually served that is why I would rate it higher as compared to that others.