Hannah soon finds herself on the receiving end of peer pressure from her friends to engage in oral sex with Nick Hartman, a nice boy whom Hannah likes. The film showcases three 14-year-old girls: Dawn ( Miriam McDonald), Becca ( Megan Park) and Hannah ( Alexis Dziena). The incident was chronicled in a Frontline episode called "The Lost Children of Rockdale County". Though the film does not acknowledge this outwardly, the events of this film were partly inspired by a syphilis outbreak that occurred in a well-off suburb of Atlanta in 1996, where over 200 teenagers were exposed. The movie was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the school scenes being shot at Halifax West High School. The film deals with the issues of drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, parenting an adolescent, the influence of the sexually-driven media, teen partying, and syphilis. She's Too Young is an American made-for-TV movie released in 2004, starring Marcia Gay Harden as the mother of a 14-year-old daughter who is involved in sexual acts hidden from her parents.
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