Friday, 22 August 2008

Wild Child (warning, slight spoilers)

This film is absolutely brilliant. I would completely recommend it to just about anyone, although it is a bit of a chick flick. It's about an American girl who lives in California, and she's a bit of a brat. Her mother died, and her stepmother is moving in, and she pulls one stunt too many. Her father decides to send her to boarding school. Unknown to her, it's the same one her mother went to. At first she finds it hard to settle in, and determines to get herself expelled so she can go home. But she finds herself warming to it rather more than she thought she would, and becomes captain of the lacrosse team, leading them to more success than the school has had for a long time. And then she falls in love with the headteachers son. At first, she sees him as the best way of getting expelled--it's forbidden for him to fraternise with the students--but she finds herself falling for him, and becoming surprisingly close to her dorm mates. And then the evil Head Girl dupes both her friends and Freddy into hating her, and she sits playing with her lighter, accidentally touching it to some cloth hangings. She quickly puts it out, and, hearing footsteps, flees. Later on, she discovers the fire raging and rescues one of the girls, as well as alerting everyone to the danger. She is put before an honour court, and remarks that at first she fought to get out, but now she really, really wants to stay. It all ends happily though, don't worry, and I won't reveal how she manages to stay...

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