Sorority Wars on Lifetime: Greek Life on Campus gets Out of Control

Katie Parker (Lucy Hale) and her best friend Sara (Phoebe Strole) are about to embark on their next step in life. They are going to college. And they are going to rush week to pledge the Delta house, the house founded by Katie’s mother Lutie (Courtney Thorne-Smith) and her best friend Summer (Faith Ford). Lutie and Summer still head up the alumni board of the sorority. And Summer’s daughter Gwen (Amanda Schull) is the head of the Delta house and is anxious to get Katie into the sorority. Their mothers founded the house and she feels they will inherit the power and prestige.

The Delta House v The Kappa House

While checking out the Kappa house, Katie is told by one of the women there that she needs to select the sorority in which she feels most comfortable because she is not only representing the sorority, but the sorority is representing her. The Kappa women are more down-to-earth and make an impression on her, but she is expected to join the Delta house. After all, she is a legacy pledge.

The Delta’s are fun-loving, fashion-forward, snooty women who throw wild parties and who base their esteem on their looks and their boyfriends. This isn’t exactly what Katie has in mind when she gets her first taste of the house. But she and Sara pledge and Katie’s mother is overjoyed. She has had dreams of pinning her daughter’s sorority pin on her during the initiation ceremony.

Then something happens that changes the entire situation. Katie’s actions anger the Delta women, and they turn on her. She is basically shunned by the Deltas and becomes an outcast in school. This event not only affects Katie and Sara’s friendship, but also Lutie and Summer’s friendship.

Sara feels for the first time in her life that she is fully accepted, and is excited about becoming a Delta, with or without Katie.

Katie is hurt by her best friend’s desertion and decides not to pledge any sorority. But after awhile she has second thoughts and remembers the women of the Kappa house, the direct opposite of the Delta house. They are rival sororities. When Katie joins the Kappa house, the war begins.

The final straw is the coveted trophy that has been a Delta staple for years. But can Katie and the Kappas win it out from under the Deltas?

Two Generations of Feuding Sorority Women

The feud between their daughters runs over to the mothers and Katie feels badly that her mother is not taking her side. Lutie feels more like a Delta than like Katie’s mother. That is until she also becomes a target of the Delta mothers.

This is a fun movie. Lucy Hale is adorable and the tension between the characters bubbles over into every scene. It’s a cute story filled with inspiration.

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Oct 20, 2009 6:38 AM

Guest :

"This is a fun movie. Lucy Hale is adorable and the tension between the characters bubbles over into every scene. It’s a cute story filled with inspiration."

Really? For some reason I watched this show because I have a niece who recently joined a sorority, and wanted to confirm my skepticism about such organizations. The drama didn't let me down. I realize this is a movie and designed to showcase the good guys vs. bad guys at a very superficial level, but my niece's mother would fit quite nicely into Faith Ford's character; and I've met young women who fit the characters of many of the Delta women. It is amazing that these people make it in the real world.

The acting was adequate, the story line predictable and if made into a series, it will be a one season program.

How-about: Nerds vs. Sorority Sisters?

Oct 30, 2009 8:17 AM

Guest :

"[Katie] and Sara pledge and Katie’s mother is overjoyed."
Incorrect. Katie and Sara go through recruitment then end up pledging different sororities, and Katie's mother is far from overjoyed for many reasons including being disillusioned when her friends fail her. I see the potential for a good story to unfold and some interesting revelations about what makes people tick. Bad girls and good girls alike have their strengths and weaknessess, and what better place to have these elements play out than on the stage of emerging adulthood. Take a close look, there is more to this movie than superficiality.