Wild Child (film)

Infobox Film
name = Wild Child


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Nick Moore
producer = Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Diana Phillips
Alexandra Ferguson
writer = Lucy Dahl
starring = Emma Roberts
Natasha Richardson
Aidan Quinn
Shirley Henderson
Alex Pettyfer
Linzey Cocker
Juno Temple
Kimberley Nixon
Sophie Wu
Ruby Thomas
Eleanor Turner Moss
Lexi Ainsworth
Georgia King
Shelby Young
music = Michael Price
cinematography = Chris Seager
editing = Simon Cozens
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = 2008
runtime = 98 minutes
country = United States
United Kingdom
France
language = English
budget = $20 million
gross =
website = http://www.wildchildmovie.com
imdb_id = 1024255

"Wild Child" is a 2008 film. It stars Emma Roberts as Poppy Moore, Alex Pettyfer as Freddie Kingsley and Natasha Richardson as Mrs. Kingsley. It was directed by Nick Moore and is rated PG-13 in the USA and 12A in the UK for some sexual content, language and drinking. The film is set in both England and Los Angeles.

Plot

Los Angeles native Poppy is sent to an English boarding school as a punishment by her father after she jumps into the ocean with a bunch of clothes belonging to the new woman in her dad's life. After immediately alienating herself with her attitude towards the school and other girls, which results in one of the teachers putting her whole room in detention, Poppy tries to figure out a way to leave. She sneaks into the computer room at night to send an email to her best friend Ruby and sees Drippy (one of her roommates) sneaking into the freezer to have some icecream after an embarrassing eyebrow tint. When a fire drill happens whilst Poppy is out of her dorm, she sneaks outside and climbs up a ladder into one of the rooms so she doesnt get caught. A male voice from behind a bath curtain asks her name and helps her get out without being caught. During a lacrosse practice Poppy laughs at Harriet's attempts to be a good lacrosse player and the two get into a fight on the ground when Freddie drives up and uses Poppy's name making her realise that his was the male voice she heard. When she goes to the headmistress's office Mrs Kingsley gives her Alice in Wonderland, telling her it might help. When Harriet is forcing a first year to "age" her clothes for the upcoming school dance, she sees Poppy sitting on a bench under the window and pours the dirty water all over Poppy. Room-mate Kate finds Poppy upset and alone in their room and finds out that Poppy's mum passed away when she was 11. She tell Poppy she'll have to get herself expelled if she's serious about getting out. Later that night, Poppy reads Alice In Wonderland with a lighter when her room-mates sneak up on her with torches, and offer their help. They give their ideas on how she can get expelled, (putting death metal music in one of the teachers cars, changing the French CD they learn from in class to one that has information about their teachers personal life and putting photoshopped pictures of Harriet in a phone box making people believe she is a call girl)and they all help with the deeds bringing them closer together, but Poppy still wants to leave. When none of the plans to get Poppy expelled are working the girls realise they will have to go all out, and all the way and hit the headmistress closer to home place, by snogging her son Freddie, which is completely forbidden in the school. They go into town to find some outfits for the dance and Poppy finds herself enjoying shopping in a thrift store. They then go to the hairdresser (played by a fabulous Nick Frost) and Poppy goes back to a more natural colour of dark brown. As the dance starts all the boys are on one side and the girls on another and then Harriet comes out to the tune of Pride and Prejudice (she had heard that Freddie thought she looked like Keira Knightley), wearing a costume and attempting a pout which seems to scare Freddie more than anything. After dancing with Freddie, Poppy trips and hits her head which leads Fredie to take the concussed girl outside for air where he asks her out on a date for when he comes back to the school. During this time Poppy whips the lacrosse team into shape, getting them to the final which is a first for them. Before going out with Freddie, Poppy is so excited she doesn't log off the computer after emailing Ruby, and runs off. On the date Poppy tries to make them stay close to school but they end up going into town and Poppy finds herself falling for Freddie. They kiss during lunch and Poppy returns to school on a high. When she returns she finds her roommates reading an email from her email address sent to Ruby stating that she thought all of her new friends were losers and pathetic, then she finds that Freddie has been given a similar email that tells him the reson Poppy wanted to date im was to get expelled and that she thought he was a loser and english dweeb.

Poppy, with no one else to turn to, sneaks down to the cook's room to use the phone and rings Ruby who also got a e-mail, who is apparently "busy" and is desperate to get off the phone. Thinking it is now someone else on the phone Ruby reveals how she dislikes Poppy. During the phone call we see Drippy go to the freezer for ice cream. Feeling even more alone, Poppy starts playing with her lighter, setting a towel alight. Hearing footsteps, "she quickly puts out the fire and runs" off. A few minutes later, she looks out her window to see a fire, and wakes Kate and the rest of the school. As they all wait for the roll call they find that Drippy is missing, Poppy realises where she must have been and runs into the smoky room to get her out. After the fire is put out, Freddie looks at the damage and finds her lighter. He gives it back to her, refusing to listen to what happened. Poppy goes to the headmistress and confesses. Poppy also asks Mrs. Kingsley to give a letter to Freddie apologizing and confessing her feelings about everything.

While waiting for the Honour Court which will decide if she should be expelled. The school thinks Poppy was tring to kill them all and are ready to give her up. Poppy finds a picture of her Mum and the lacrosse team and thinks about how they are a like. Poppy sits with the picture when Freddie finds her crying. After a heart to heart, Freddie is convinced that she Poppy is innocent and did not write the email. At the Honour Court, Poppy tells her story while her roommates find out Poppy was out with Freddie when the email was sent, and Harriet was the only one around. Going to the court, they get the whole school to confess they were present at the fire. Harriet then lets slip about Poppy's lighter being used to start the fire, which only Poppy and Freddie knew about, and accidentally confesses to restarting the fire after Poppy had successfully put it out. Poppy is innocent and Harriet is expelled and the whole year is happy about that. The movie is left off at the lacrosse finals where Abbey Mount wins. Poppy's father comes to the game and is shocked by Poppy's dramatic change, in particular, how similar she has become to her mother. Poppy is happy about how she has change and how her "heart is healed". Some months later, Poppy is back at her home with her father and her sister in Malibu, together with Kate, Josie, Jennifer and Camilla. To celebrate them spending time with her, Poppy convinces her friends to make the leap off the cliff that led her to arrival at Abbey Mount. In spite of their misgivings, the five young women make the jump into the ocean below.

Cast

*Emma Roberts as Poppy Moore
*Natasha Richardson as Mrs. Kingsley
*Alex Pettyfer as Freddie Kingsley
*Aidan Quinn as Gerry Moore
*Shirley Henderson as Matron
*Daisy Donovan as Miss Rees-Withers
*Johnny Pacar as Roddy
*Kimberley Nixon as Kate
*Linzey Cocker as Josie
*Juno Temple as Jennifer "Drippy" Logan
*Sophie Wu as Camilla "Kiki"
*Shelby Young as Ruby
*Ruby Thomas as Jane
*Eleanor Turner Moss as Charlotte
*Nick Frost as Mr. Christopher
*Lexi Ainsworth as Molly
*Georgia King as Harriet
*Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Ruthie
*Charlotte Taylor and Katy Kotowicz as The Goths

Production

The film was filmed at Cobham Hall, Kent, Balls Park, Hertford, and the centre of Haworth, England and on location in Los Angeles, California. Children from surrounding schools were selected to be extras in scenes on location at Balls Park, Hertford. [http://www.oxlax.com Oxford University Lacrosse] and [http://www.cranbrooklacrosse.co.uk Cranbrook Lacrosse Club] provided a group of lacrosse playing extras and some referees for the film. Emma Roberts dyed her hair dark brown for this role, however for the beginning part of the film she wears a long, blonde wig. The wrap party was held on September 4, 2007 in London, before some of the cast went to Los Angeles to finish filming.

To celebrate the release of Wild Child, Universal Pictures staged the Wild Child Pink Premiere at the Braehead Xscape in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday 30 July. Both stars of the film Emma Roberts (Poppy) and Alex Pettyfer (Freddie) attended.

References

http://www.xscape.co.uk/snow/braehead/whats-on/wild-child

External links

* [http://www.wildchildmovie.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jH1Hbqe45M&feature=user Official Trailer] at YouTube
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* [http://www.sadibey.com/dosyalar/Basin_Bultenleri/Wild_Child_03.doc Production information]