Odd Girl Out

2005 "The secret life of girls... it's not pretty."
6.5| 1h30m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 04 April 2005 Released
Producted By: Lifetime
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A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.

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Tom McLoughlin

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Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
cartoonheart45 I saw many movies with same topic there's the cyber bully movie with Hannah Montana's friend which was really bad. This movie is more real and convincing. One thing I can't believe about this movie, the girl was very patient with them. Can anybody be this naive and sensitive.I was watching the whole thing and I'm about to explode. If the bullies can meet me at that moment I'll commit a crime. If this happens to me, I'll stand up for myself I'll ignore it and move forward with my life. The whole thing was non convincing specially the girl's attitude. Can someone be this soft and pure ? I don't think so. I think as well everything was exaggerated over this movie even the effects they made the hall ways look darker with the black metal music all over the movie, the bullies attitude after the suicide attempt.. But, the movie has a good purpose and it's to inform schools about the dangers of bully and how can people learn to not give it such an importance. If someone is bothering you, walk away, choose a farther place at the lunch table, laugh at them, let them know you don't give them any importance, let them know that they're the only losers they're losing their time on some worthless stuff. If they're e-mailing you unbearable stuff just block them and you'll win the sanity of your mind rather than getting crazy or committing suicide.
annevejb In my review, comment, on Speak (2004) I mention that that I find this to be something that happens in the UK. Not in the schools I went to, though times change, but in other parts of UK society. I specifically quoted higher education and mental health. Odd Girl Out also reminds me of my attempts to use the FAQ and Message Board pages at IMDb.Starting drafting this, I still have not seen the story all the way through. I had to give up at the part where Alexa - Vanessa is writing out an English homework assignment for her previous best friend, so obvious that she is going to get really damaged by that. So, another Alexa that I have not been able to watch for more than 30 minutes is Repo, nothing like the sugar of Spy Kids or Prada.An interesting possible variation of this story as Innocent (2009). Background notes in the IMDb message board for this hint that the kidnapper might just be a variation on the Alexa – Vanessa role.
Theo Robertson Teenage high school student Vanessa is friends with Stacey but when Vanessa asks out a boy Stacey has her eye on the friendship ends . Worse it leads to a bullying campaign where Stacey and her friends makes Vanessa's life an absolute living hell that drives Vanessa to the brink of suicide To a degree this is a fairly effective TVM centering around the misery that bullying brings and you really do feel sympathy for Vanessa's plight as she finds herself friendless as Stacey and her gang turn on her . There is a slight problem and that is director Tom Mcloughlin more interested in adopting an MTV directing style rather than developing the story more There's another slight fly in the ointment and that's the climax where Vanessa and Stacey make their peace only for Vanessa to realise Stacey is not to be trusted . Considering everything Vanessa has gone through is it likely that anyone would want to befriend Stacey again after all she's done . It's not helped by the cheesy scene Vanessa's mom mouthing " I'm so proud of you " Having said that it's a TVM made for a certain market and if the production team made it a bit more gritty then the audience might have found it too heavy to watch and the positive comments on this page indicates that ODD GIRL OUT has succeeded in showing what a terrible thing bullying is
lauraeileen894 The very overrated 2004 flick "Mean Girls" was praised by critics for its "biting" and "accurate" portrayal of clique-y high school girls. Please, "Mean Girls" is so tame, so glossy it should have been called "'Valley Girl' with PMS". Just a year after "Mean Girls"'s release, Lifetime released "Odd Girl Out", a terrifying tragic tale of adolescent cruelty. Based on Rachel Simmons's nonfiction book of the same name, "Odd Girl Out" is a stylized but painfully realistic look at how teenage girls will attack each other not with four-letter words or fists, but with rumors, dirty looks, and any form of underhanded bullying. "Odd Girl Out" reveals the 21st century's newest form of torment: cyber-bullying.Our protagonist Vanessa (Alexa Vega, "Spy Kids") is an A-student comfortably situated in her popular clique of friends. When fair weather friend Niki (played by appropriately unattractive Elizabeth Rice) becomes jealous of Vanessa's social standing, she decides to take her down a peg by turning Vanessa's shallow best friend Stacy (Leah Pipes) against her and spreading hateful rumors and gossip. Gossip turns into thinly veiled insults ("That tray looks really heavy," one girl sneers at Vanessa during lunch), which in turn become relentless abuse (a web site dedicated to insulting Vanessa is put up). Vanessa tries her best to ignore this undeserved mistreatment, but the emotional pain becomes too much for her to bear. Vanessa's self-esteem and life begin to crumble, and her mother (Lisa Vidal) desperately struggles to help her anguished daughter. As someone who was picked on (albeit not as badly) in middle school, I must say this movie is right on the mark. This is really how middle school girls behave: they'll simply choose their victim and attack at random. No rhyme, no reason, they are driven by their own self-absorption and insecurities. I'll admit it, "Odd Girl Out" made me cry for myself, for poor Vanessa, and anyone else who was victimized at that age. Vega is astonishingly good as Vanessa, who is forced to go through pure hell scene after scene. You really see the desperation and loneliness reflected in her sad brown eyes. Vidal is also in fine form as Vanessa's loving but somewhat clueless mom. Rice, Pipes, and Alecia Moore are realistic as the pack of former friends who torture Vanessa. Some people complain that "Odd Girl Out" plays too much like a horror movie. Anyone who agrees with that sentiment obviously never attended public middle school.