A Girl Like Her (2015)
| A Girl Like Her. | |
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| Directed by | Amy S. Weber |
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| Music by | David Bateman |
| Edited by | Todd Zelin |
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Release date
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March 27, 2015 |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Girl Like Her is feature length American found footage drama film directed by Amy S. Weber. The film stars Lexi Ainsworth as Jessica Burns, a 16-year old bullied high school student who attempts suicide. The movie was originally titled The Bully Chronicles but the title was later changed.
Jessica Burns is a 16-year old high school sophomore who is constantly tortured by her ex-best friend, Avery Keller, the stereotypical popular girl. The movie follows the events that happen after Jessica tries to commit suicide by overdosing, and what it does to a community. But she doesn't really die I don't think.
The movie starts with Jessica (Lexi Ainsworth) in her room, crying and walking around. She walks to her bathroom and takes a handful of pills from her medicine cabinet. It is revealed that the high school she goes to has won a chance for a documentary for being a public school that has placed as one of the top ten schools across the country.
Word of Jessica's suicide attempt and hospitalization spreads quickly throughout the school, and the cameras catch students crying and talking about the situation. The camera crews go around interviewing kids about Jessica, and they reveal that her main tormentor was her former best friend, Avery Keller (Hunter King). They seek her out and she denies ever bullying Jessica and claims they were joking around.
They ask her if she wants to be part of the film, saying they want to see into the life of a popular girl, as Keller claims that she, as a popular girl, is often misunderstood. They go to her house that night, where they meet her mother, brother, and father and see how difficult her home life is. They record footage of her life and give her a camcorder with which to film extra footage of herself in order for others to see what being a popular was like.
As the movie progresses and the students continue to deal with what's happening the camera crew talks with Jessica's best friend, Brian (Jimmy Bennett, also one of her only friends). Brian invites the crew to his home. He tells the crew that the bullying has been going on for around 6 months and that they started filming the bullying with a hidden camera disguised as a dragonfly pin, as well as with Brian's camera. He shows them footage of Avery bullying Jessica, confirming what others had stated about the relationship between the two girls. Also in the footage are scenes of Jessica crying and saying she can't take it anymore.
The next day at school, the crew approaches Avery again and tells her they have proof that she bullied Jessica. They ask her if she wants to see it, and she agrees to meet them at her house that night.
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