Wild Child (film)
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Promotional film poster
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| Directed by | Nick Moore |
| Produced by |
Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Diana Phillips |
| Written by | Lucy Dahl |
| Starring |
Emma Roberts Alex Pettyfer Kimberley Nixon Juno Temple Linzey Cocker Sophie Wu Georgia King Natasha Richardson |
| Music by | Michael Price |
| Cinematography | Chris Seager |
| Edited by | Simon Cozens |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Release date
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August 15, 2008 |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $51 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | August 18, 2008 |
| Recorded | 2008 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 48:32 |
| Label | Polydor |
Wild Child is a 2008 British-French-American teen comedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Georgia King. Wild Child is Natasha Richardson's last on-screen film appearance.
Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts), an affluent Californian teenager, executes a wild prank to ruin all of her father's girlfriend's belongings in front of her friends, telling everyone to throw away whatever they want and take it for themselves. When her father arrives on the scene, he announces that he is sending her to a boarding school in England. Arriving at the school, Abbey Mount, Poppy meets the headmistress Mrs. Kingsley (Natasha Richardson), who she initially finds annoying, head girl Harriet Bentley (Georgia King), a tall, bossy girl who has two "friends" named Jane and Charlotte that she treats like slaves, who follow her around, fag for her and agree with whatever she says, and her "big sister" Kate (Kimberley Nixon). Poppy's entire suitcase is left out in the rain, soaking everything. She meets the Matron and orders her to wash, dry and iron all her clothes. This lands her 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 miserable in her new life, feeling that she does not fit in as an outsider.
After a small fight with Harriet in gym class, Poppy is called to the Headmistress' Office, where she is given a punishment; read a book. Sitting on a bench outside sulking, Harriet spots her and orders her "maid", an intimidated Year 7 student, to drench Poppy with dirty coffee-filled water that was being used to age Harriet's Keira Knightley costume for the school dance, but this ultimately results in Poppy and Kate starting to form a friendship. Revealing that the girls' mobile phones, confiscated earlier on, were always intended to be decoys, Kate lets Poppy use her actual phone to call her friend Ruby in the US. However, when Ruby sees Poppy's message, she is disgusted and it is revealed that Poppy's boyfriend, Roddy, has been cheating on Poppy with her.
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