MOVIE REVIEW OF THE FILM WILD CHILD 2008

The movie “Wild Child” is a comedy film for teen girls. Filmed in the year 2008 and directed by Nick Moore. Starring Emma Roberts as the main Character (Poppy Moore) , Alex Pettyfer (Freddie Kingsley) and Georgia King (Harriet Bentley). This is an exciting funny movie that teens will love because of some relatable scenarios. A movie for all ages, And a movie with life lessons.

Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts), a very sassy wealthy Californian Girl, does a crazy prank to destroy all of her father’s girlfriend’s things in front of her wild friends, She even instructed them to throw away whatever they want and have it for themselves if they want to. When Poppy’s father came home he saw the disaster her daughter made because of this he told his daughter that he is sending her to an All girls Boarding School in England because of her intolerable attitude. When they arrived at the school, Abbey Mount, Poppy meets the headmistress Mrs. Kingsley (Natasha Richardson), who she finds really annoying at her first impression. There is this really and super annoying character named Harriet Bentley (Georgia King), a tall, domineering girl who has two “friends” named Jane and Charlotte that she treats like slaves, who follows all her command. Agree for her with whatever she says. Poppy’s entire suit case is left outside under the rain, making everything wet from her wine bottles to shoes other stuffs because of this She meets the Matron and commanded her to wash, dry and iron all her clothes. This lead her to her new entire dormitory of four other girls with three Sunday’s detention, leaving her with no friends and her dorm mates expressing their hate to her. She is fed-up in her new life, feeling that she does not fit in as an outsider. Will Poppy still be able to make friends with other girls?
After having a bit argument with the bossy Harriet in their Physical Education Class, Poppy was called to the Headmistress’ Office, where she was given a punishment and that is to read a book for some reflection. While Poppy was sitting on a bench outside because of what happened, Harriet saw her and orders her “maid”, an obedient follower of Harriet and a Year 7 student, to wet Poppy with dirty coffee-filled water that was being used to polish Harriet’s Keira Knightley costume for the night ball, because of this it eventually resulted the friendship of Poppy and Kate knowing that they both hate Harriet Bentley. Through this Kate lend Poppy her mobile phone, since Poppy’s Gadgets were confiscated before by the Matron. Poppy texted Ruby, her Best friend but she has no idea that Ruby was already making out with her Boyfriend. Poppy tells all her experiences to Ruby receiving all the messages from England. But Ruby gets annoyed everytime she receives messages from Poppy. She Doesn’t even care about her. Fake friend though!

After Poppy told that her mother died several years ago because of a car accident, her roommates planned to help her get out of their Boarding School and be expelled so that she can go back home. Together they made out several pranks which eventually made them closer together but since none of their plans work, they decide to seduce the headmistress’s son, Freddie, who is strictly not allowed to mingle with any of the girls. She dances with Freddy at the school ball, much to Harriet’s disappointment, but Poppy fell down and hits her head. This lead Freddie to take the concussed girl outside for air, where he asks her out on a date.
The Next day after the sweet night, Poppy discovers that she has a talent for the sport lacrosse and made the school’s team into shape, getting them into the finals. Poppy finds herself falling for Freddie. They even kissed before returning to school. Entering her room, Poppy finds her roommates reading an email which was sent by herself, expressing that she thinks all of her new friends are losers. She then finds that Freddie has been sent a similar email and is thereafter ignored by all of her friends. With no one else to turn to, Poppy sneaks down to the cook’s room and calls Ruby. Ruby, however, accidentally reveals how much she dislikes Poppy and the fact that she is seeing Poppy’s boyfriend. Feeling even more alone, Poppy starts playing with her lighter and accidentally sets a curtain on fire. Hearing footsteps, she rapidly puts out the fire and went back to her room. A few moments later she found out that the whole kitchen was already set out on fire, She Immediately pressed the fire alarm button woke up the whole school.
When they found out that Drippy is missing, Poppy runs into the burning school to rescue her. After the fire is put out, Freddie saw her lighter in the fire site and gives it back to her. He refused to listen to Poppy’s explanation. Just, Poppy went to the headmistress and told everything she knew to headmistress. Afterwards, she finds a picture of her mother in the 1976 Abbey Mount lacrosse team and begins to cry when she realized that her mother was an alumnae to the school.
While Poppy is waiting for the Honor Court to decide if she will be expelled, Freddie finds her crying and became convinced that the fire was just an accident. During the hearing, Poppy tells her whole story. Meanwhile, her roommates find out that Poppy did not send the emails. Going to the Court, they stand up for Poppy and Harriet accidentally confesses to restarting the fire after Poppy had put it out; Poppy is now free knowing that she was not the one who started the fire. Poppy’s father came to the game of the lacrosse finals, and is shocked by Poppy’s dramatic change in appearance and how much she looks like her mother, also captain of the lacrosse team at Abbey Mount. Abbey Mount wins the lacrosse finals and Harriet is expelled. Some months later, Poppy and her friends (including Freddie) are shown relaxing in Malibu. Poppy ignores Ruby’s phone calls, now really aware that she is not a trustworthy friend as what she thought before.

The movie showed us how hard it is to adopt different cultures however this also tells us that in discovering different people, you get to know them better, you get to know the people who are real to you, the people who deserves to be called “friends” and people who deserves to be called “fake”