Wild Child (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wild Child |
| Original title | Wild Child |
| Country of production |
United States United Kingdom France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nick Moore |
| script | Lucy Dahl |
| production |
Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner , Diana Phillips |
| music | Michael Price |
| camera | Chris Seager |
| cut | Simon Cozens |
| occupation | |
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Wild Child is a 2008 teen comedy directed by Nick Moore . Emma Roberts , Julia Roberts ' niece, stars in the lead role . Filming locations were England, the USA and France. It was the last film appearance for Natasha Richardson , who died in 2009 after a skiing accident.
action
Because Poppy Moore, the epitome of the rich American teenager, terrorizes her father and only has parties on his mind, he sends her to a British boarding school . Life there is the exact opposite of what she has lived up to now. For example, she has to do without her cell phone and luxury shops. To escape boarding school, her roommates suggest that she play pranks at school until she is kicked out. But even though she is evidently exposed as a perpetrator every time, the school director has patience with her and refrains from being expelled from school.
After a while Poppy befriends the girls from her room, at the same time the conflict with Head Girl Harriet grows. The girls develop a plan in order to provoke Poppy's expulsion after all. She is supposed to seduce Freddie, the son of the principal, because she pays great attention to her son and doesn't want him to have a relationship with a schoolgirl. However, they both fall in love, which stirs up Harriet's anger because she is also in love with Freddy.
When Poppy became the captain of the lacrosse team and was able to lead it to success, she noticed how her liking for life in the boarding school grew. The stay is apparently not as cruel as she feared. However, when falsified emails appear that look like they were written by Poppy, in which her friends are referred to as "ugly and unsuspecting losers" and Freddie is also insulted, her friends turn away from her. Devastated, she goes to the kitchen, where she plays with her lighter and accidentally lights the curtains. Fortunately, however, she can put out the fire and goes back to her room.
When she glances out the window shortly afterwards, however, she sees that there is a fire in the kitchen and triggers the fire alarm. While cleaning up, Freddie finds Poppy's lighter and blames her for starting the fire. Poppy volunteers to report to the director. The next day there is a school meeting, at which it turns out that Harriet started the fire out of envy and also wrote the e-mails to get rid of Poppy.
In the end, Poppy wins the lacrosse championship with her team, reconciles with her father and decides to stay in England .
criticism
“[...] The entire plot is actually permeated with very bitchy behavior, the film itself looks downright bitter. However, one can hardly speak of the suggested first-class quality; Moore's directorial debut is clearly too schematic and pinched for that. The taming of the stubborn protagonist is largely unimaginative. While a less surprising course of action can still be accepted as typical of the genre, anemic characters and dull, ruminated clichés are a real obstacle. [...] "
“After Nancy Drew's debut did not achieve the desired success, Julia Roberts' niece Emma now shows herself as a stubborn teenager and willingly indulges in a kind of modern" Hanni and Nanni "scenario of the taming of the shrewd. Anyone who likes the music of Avril Lavigne should also have fun with this completely tailored to teenage girl. "
"The satirical game with mutual prejudices gets lost in the stereotyped conventions of high school films and, despite a likeable leading actress, never manages to rise to originality."
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- Wild Child in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wild Child at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official German website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Wild Child . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 673 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Wild Child . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/99047-Wild-Child.html
- ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/wild-child/108450.html
- ↑ Wild Child. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 8, 2016 .