Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal is a Lifetime Television

Lifetime Television

Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...

 drama film starring Tatum O'Neal

Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She is the youngest to win a competitive Academy Award, at the age of 10, which she won for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father Ryan O'Neal...

 and directed by Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin is an American screenwriter, film/television director and former mime whose credits include numerous television movies, such as Murder in Greenwich, the feature film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and the 2009 Lifetime Movie Network film The Wronged Man.In 1977 McLoughlin was...

. The film premiered on August 2, 2008. It is based on a true story, which occurred at McKinney North High School

McKinney North High School

McKinney North High School is a public secondary school located on 2550 Wilmeth Road in McKinney, Texas, USA. The school is part of the McKinney Independent School District. North was also recently updated to a "recognized" status via the TEA.-Academics:McKinney North operates on a 7:30 a.m. to...

 in McKinney, Texas

McKinney, Texas

McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States, and the second in population to Plano. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 131,117 The Census Bureau listed McKinney as the nation's fastest growing city from 2000 to 2003 and again in...

 in 2006. The film is based on a scandal in which five teenage cheerleaders terrorized their school and played by their own rules because the principal was the mother to one of the five girls.

Cast

• Tatum O'Neal
  Tatum O'Neal
  Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She is the youngest to win a competitive Academy Award, at the age of 10, which she won for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father Ryan O'Neal...
  
   - Principal Lorene Tippit
• Jenna Dewan
  Jenna Dewan
  Jenna Lee Dewan-Tatum , better known by her birth name Jenna Dewan, is an American actress, dancer, and former model.-Early life:...
  
   - Coach Emma Carr
• Ashley Benson
  Ashley Benson
  Ashley Victoria Benson is an American film and television actress, and model. She is known for her role as Abigail Deveraux on Days Of Our Lives , Carson in Bring It On: In It to Win It, and Hanna Marin on Pretty Little Liars.Benson was born and raised in Anaheim Hills, California...
  
   - Brooke Tippit
• Dameon Clarke
  Dameon Clarke
  Dameon J. Clarke is a Canadian-born American actor and voice actor who currently resides in Los Angeles. He has worked on numerous film and television productions as well as many anime and video game properties for FUNimation Entertainment, New Generation Pictures and OkraTron 5000. He is...
  
   - Coach Adam Reeve
• Jessica Heap
  Jessica Heap
  Jessica Heap is an American actress. She has appeared on various television series, though her most notable role to date is that of Eden Baldwin on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Heap joined the cast in June 2011.-References:...
  
   - Jeri Blackburn
• Aimee Spring Fortier - Lisa Toledo
• Stephanie Honoré
  Stephanie Honoré
  Stephanie Honoré Sanchez is an American actress best known for her roles in the horror films The Final Destination and Mirrors 2.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
   - Ashley
• Ashlynn Ross - Tabitha Doering
• Carissa Capobianco - Cindy Harper
• Hailey Wist - Meagan Harper
• Natalie Rose - Natalie Zamora