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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0012236187455
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 6849
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: April 04, 2005
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Vanessa Snyder (Alexa Vega) is a middle schooler whose future is bright: she's a straight A-student a star on the soccer team and her mother's (Lisa Vidal) pride and joy. Pretty popular and well-adjusted Vanessa finds that her life turns upside down when her so-called best friend (Leah Pipes) turns on her mounting a smear campaign of monumental proportions and setting Vanessa on a path to self-destruction that her mother desperately tries to prevent.System Requirements:Running Time 85 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 012236187455 Manufacturer No: 18745
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"Girls are brutal," a father warns his young son in the course of Odd Girl Out. "They… tear each other to bits over the smallest things." Director Tom McLoughlin's 2005 film proves it, too, offering up a harrowing tale of one teenager's horrendous treatment at the hands of her high school classmates. When we meet Vanessa (Alexa Vega, also seen in Spy Kids), she's a reluctant member of a group of spoiled, snooty girls who rule the school hallways like designer-dressed harpies. But when she betrays "best friend" and clique leader Stacey (Malcolm in the Middle's Leah Pipes), it all starts to go south; little matter that said betrayal is actually concocted by the genuinely vicious Nikki (Elizabeth Rice). What begins as a relatively petty campaign of text messages, rumor-mongering, and daily ostracism soon escalates into full-scale torment and cruelty, including a particularly nasty website, an invitation to a party that doesn't exist (the better to humiliate the eager and insecure Vanessa), and her near-tragic reaction to these events. McLoughlin's resume includes TV shows based on A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th, so it's no surprise that this film has a stylized, horror film vibe; there is nothing remotely light-hearted about this story (loosely based on Rachel Simmons' non-fiction book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture Of Aggression In Girls), which focuses not only on Vanessa's nightmare but on the well-meaning but futile efforts of her mother (Lisa Vidal) to help. But having stoked the viewer to expect Stacey, Nikki, and their co-conspirators to get the comeuppance they so richly deserve, the director delivers a largely unsatisfying denoument. Too bad, because up until then, Odd Girl Out is a real eye-opener, and a frighteningly accurate account of the living hell that is high school life. --Sam Graham
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I remeber when this movie first came out - it stunned me by the realism of today's type of bullying - girl bullying! Victims and bullies will finally understand what the costs are and the consequences that goes with it. Now that it is commonplace, the comical movies, like Mean Girls, can't be brushed off lightly. Just watch, all women and girls, and see for yourself how today's hate and revenge can and will effect all.
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Okay, I read the Odd Girl Speaks Out book and it was interesting but didn't offer any insight as to how we deal with this problem. It's more a book of girls venting about the negative experiences with other girls in their lives. I realize this does happen, is quite common in Junior High and High School and it needs to change.
I watched the movie to preview it prior to showing it to my 13 year old daughter. Well, I will not allow her to watch it. What a horrible portrayal of the worst ... Read More
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I am not a movie critic, but I don't need to be to give this film 5 stars. As a twenty year educator and now a school counselor, I well-know there is a enough accuracy in this presentation that any condensing or exaggerating done by Hollywood is done for the purpose of getting this despicable message into a very narrow time limit, in order to educate as many people as possible. Regardless how different the story or the girls, the pain is the same. Consider, too, how much more painful for those ... Read More
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A clip of this film was used in a presentation to a class of 8th graders at a local school to try to begin to address cliques and the social atmosphere. In a reflection afterwards the 8th grade girls admitted it was a pretty accurate portrayal of what goes on and some of the interactions. It got the girls attention, as well as some of the adults helping out with the day. Not uplifting- but honest about some current social situations for girls this age.
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This movie is very well acted the mother and daughter are very good actresses and those mean teenage girls are very good too. I think this film should of been nominated for a golden globe for best TV movie (drama), but oh well. So if you don't like this movie, that's your opinion. But I think this movie is really good.
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