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Director: Nick Moore
Movie review
From Time Out London
‘That’s the final straw, you are going to England!’ belts out Malibu dad Aidan Quinn as he sends his brat daughter Emma Roberts across the Atlantic for yet another film set at a British boarding school. Roberts’s roller-coaster accent of rising vowels and spoiled ‘be-atch’ attitude don’t go down well among the jolly hockeysticks crowd, but those girls, led by uppity head Georgia King, aren’t so palatable either. It takes Roberts’s level-headed roommates to pesuade her of the benefits of a more agreeable approach to life.Adult co-stars Shirley Henderson and Natasha Richardson struggle valiantly as a matron and headmistress and Daisy Donovan and Nick Frost have amusing small roles as a teacher and a hairdresser, but young Alex Pettyfer (‘Stormbreaker’) as the headmistress’s dishy son is as wooden as Gordon Brown at a Southwold photocall. The directing by Working Title’s longtime editor Nick Moore (‘Notting Hill’, ‘Love Actually’) shows little knack for comic timing – but the script offers few gags beyond fart jokes and the basest of cultural-clash observations. This celebration of mid-Atlantic compromise is one for the youngest and most forgiving of teenage girls.
Author: Dave Calhoun
Time Out London Issue 1982, August 14-20, 2008
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- lauren horn ♥ said...
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Posted on Oct 22 2009 18:19
Wild Child is brilliant !!
Bestt filmm Everr !! :)
I Havee watched it Loadss Of Times - Report as inappropriate
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- x-cherries-x said...
- Posted on Aug 21 2009 18:12 luved it...give them a break you lot writing the bad reviews.
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- Kristen Colley said...
- Posted on Jul 23 2009 08:09 I am not sure why, but I really like this movie. It is cheesy and stereotypical and the storyline is lacking, and the movie seems rushed. Somehow, this movie is my guilty pleasure. I don't like it, but I do at the same time. It's cute and not to be taken too seriously.
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- Rochelle said...
- Posted on Apr 29 2009 09:12 OMG i loved wild child i would sooo watch it again! how can u not like wild child
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- carley said...
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Posted on Mar 24 2009 01:28
OMG I LOVED ITT
i really really loved it (: - Report as inappropriate
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- lil orriss said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2009 10:41 love the film wild child and emma roberts has so cute and HOT outfits
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- Julia Green said...
- Posted on Jan 23 2009 15:42 I'm sorry, but this movie was CRAP!It was so annoying! and typical and grrrr!!!! It had too many things going on at once and the main actor was pretty poor...
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- katherine said...
- Posted on Jan 12 2009 17:56 i love this film i am watching it rite now i hav watched it every day
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- Howard said...
- Posted on Dec 31 2008 17:59 Awful, awful, awful. It's just terrible. If you give this film anything above a two how do you rate anything else that has characters, plot, dialogue, ideas or even the most basic of movie makeing nouse? People need to be trained to recognise this dross for the substandard straight to the bargain bin rubbish that it is.
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- Sam said...
- Posted on Dec 10 2008 14:28 i dont see why everyone hates this film its BRILLIANT and i cant stop watching it!
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- David Marsh said...
- Posted on Nov 10 2008 20:05 This film is rated 12, so how come that nearly everyone that has watched it, rated it, really can't spell, maybe they should all go to boarding school, it might do them some good.
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- sina said...
- Posted on Oct 21 2008 20:38 5*****
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- Rebekah said...
- Posted on Oct 20 2008 02:49 It was awesome!!!!YOU GO GIRLS!!!!!
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- millie said...
- Posted on Oct 16 2008 16:49 this film is gr8!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Caitlin said...
- Posted on Oct 09 2008 17:10 Hannah I wouldn't say I love it but it was v v good
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Cast & crew
Director: Nick Moore
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Emma Roberts, Georgia King, Alex Pettyfer full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: 12
Duration: 98 mins
UK Release: Aug 15 2008
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