Wild Child

2008 "New Girl. New School. New Rules."
6.1| 1h38m| PG-13| en
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Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.

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Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
lisafordeay Emma Roberts who as you may have known is Julia Roberts niece and she starred in another film that I own on DVD and liked called Aquamarine and Valentines Day. Here she plays a spoilt rich brat named Poppy Moore(donning a blonde wig before she ditches it for her natural look)who is sent off to boarding school in England as her father(played by Irish actor Aidan Quinn) is fed up of his daughters persona he decides to send her packing. Annoyed with it all she tries her best to get herself expelled from boarding school. But when she meets a couple of girls there and falls for a hunky guy(played by Alex Pettfyer from Beastly) she realizes that its the best thing her father has ever did and also she discovers something at the boarding school that will change her life forever.Overall this was a good movie as it also stars the late Natasha Richardson(The Parent Trap,Maid In Manhattan) who plays the head mistress in the film. Its sad to say that this was her final movie before she tragically died in March 2009 in a skiing accident but her legacy will live on forever. Emma Roberts played her part perfect as the ditsy spoilt brat who thinks her life is on cloud nine and some bitchy chick set her up as she was fancying her boyfriend (who happens to be the head mistresses son).If you like teen comedies or high school movies about boys and all that stuff that teens love so much then check it out. Im not the target audience for this film at all as im a 22 soon to be 23 year old chick,but I never saw it before so I got the bargain as it came in a 3 DVD pack that I got on Sunday in my local supermarket.So yeah check it out and unleash your wild child self for this British teen comedy.
Kirsty Alena I was rather surprised with this movie, of course it's not going to be remembered for the best storyline or best acting, but hopefully it will be remembered for it's witty humor.The storyline doesn't have much depth and the dialogue is rather predictable, but even so, it'll still be able to squeeze a few laughs out of you. I was expecting some teen movie about a spoilt brat who gets turned around and is expecting everyone watching this to change their life's perspective, but given that the first word in this movie is a swear word, I somehow didn't expect that anymore.It's perfect for a laugh, nothing more, nothing less, good for a girly night or something along those lines.
cloudyskye I had to watch this with my young nieces, and honestly, it made me sick. Cliché-ridden doesn't even begin to describe this drivel. I had never seen anything with Emma Roberts before and after this certainly never will. OK, as a rule it's a hard act for Americans to compete with English actors, remember colourless Andie McDowell in „Four weddings". E. R. may be talented, well, I doubt it. She shows just one facial expression, to distract from which fact she is flashing about her skinny white legs and freakishly pointy knees. She looks totally bland and forgettable, especially in that horribly obvious blond wig in the first half, in no way prettier than her English counterparts. And since when is being a Californian particularly exotic? But the story's pretty boy falls for her almost at once, oh yeah. She doesn't even have to play hard to get, au contraire. Actually not even a better actress, say a young Jennifer Aniston, could have saved this horrible story. There is the obligatory dressing up scene – Roberts's aunt had a legendary one in "Pretty Woman", but whereas erstwhile prostitute Julia/Vivien emerged as an elegant lady, Emma/Poppy goes from spoilt brat in super-high heels to pole dancer-prostitute look-and-act-alike. I shudder when I think of the age group this is aimed at. Awful, awful, awful!
KevinB12 Let me tell you something about the movie. I do not agree with this movie because Emma Roberts is American and not British. Emma Roberts should not be in a British boarding school, she should be in an American boarding school. Emma Roberts should be better off in American boarding schools in Washington, District of Columbia or New York City in Manhattan. This movie does not interest me for any reason because I strongly disagree. Some people find this movie interesting, but I never find this interesting to me. Since I saw this movie once, I might as well not bother watching this movie anymore. I think I might as well stick to Lost and Delirious with Mischa Barton, Jessica Pare and Piper Perabo.