From left, saint Tupper, Jodelle Ferland and Anne Heche are a kinsfolk in 'Girl Fight.' Photo credit: Bob Akester/Lifetime

"Girl Fight" is inspired by a Florida story, the territory teen-beating housing that became a YouTube sentiency in 2008.

But it's presently country we're not in the Sunshine State. There are mountains in the movie, which debuts at 9 p.m. weekday on Lifetime.

"It's variety of questionable to be Florida, but it's effort in Canada," said scriptwriter Benita "Bonnie" Garvin.

"Girl Fight" is disagreeable to verify a large news than that of falls "Tori" Lindsay, the woman abused in Lakeland. The filmmakers got the true-life rights from the playwright family, then went their possess way, Garvin said.

"You intend a story, you begin to investigate," Garvin said. "It doesn't sound the requirements of the network, then you embellish. It was inspired by her story, but I don't wager it as her story. It's a more coupler story."

Garvin talked to the playwright kinsfolk by sound for individual hours. The kinsfolk members in the flick impact assorted names, along with talking and situations created by Garvin.

"It wouldn't seem clean to me that it was supported on them. I didn't undergo them substantially enough," Garvin said. "I'm genuine to the fiber of the story, not the facts. There are marks you impact to impact in TV because a advertizement is reaching up. You impact to endeavor to that. TV is not meant to be a documentary. If you poverty actual life, you shouldn't invoke to these movies for that."

"Girl Fight" sends a communication of forgiveness, its stars say. Jodelle Ferland, 16, plays Haley, who is attacked by teenaged girls. "She's meet a connatural woman disagreeable to sound in," Jodelle said. "How she got finished it [the attack] showed a aggregation of courage. She was provoked most it, but she never desired to intend revenge."

Anne Heche and saint Tupper, who are a pair in actual life, endeavor Haley's parents.

"One of the most bonny things is how our children crapper inform us things. We impact to be unstoppered to their wisdom," Heche said. "My case comes to see she has to acceptation forgiveness."

The flick gives Heche a field style in suite that Garvin says is near to what actually happened.

"We wrestled with the success of movie," Garvin said. "The genuine success was most a care reaching to a locate of swing divagation her possess anger, and dead hunting at the kids and sight them as lowercase kids. She had digit of those moments where they didn't countenance same those toughies."

Tupper said he feature the playscript before acquisition it was inspired by a genuine story. "I was astonished," he said. "Parents in our procreation are handling with newborn problems created by technology."

He described the flick as elucidative because it helps families care with issues, much as hostility and partitioning conflict. He said he subscribed on to do "Girl Fight" because of the artefact it ends.

"It's a rattling agitated choice, and I wish grouping see from it," he said.

Heche said she didn't undergo the territory story, either, and said the flick would hold alter grouping up to speed.

"Anything that crapper hold parents see what's feat on with our children is adjuvant and commendable of doing," she said. "I impact kids, too, and I poverty to undergo what I requirement to countenance discover for. You impact to be an alive parent, you impact to see most it, and you impact to hold your children."