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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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- caitlin xx said...
- Posted on Apr 06 2011 14:36 this film is just the best i love it all of you who wrote the bad comments are pathetic it just the best :/
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- caitlin xx said...
- Posted on Apr 06 2011 14:36 this film is just the best i love it all of you who wrote the bad comments are pathetic it just the best :/
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- catters said...
- Posted on Apr 06 2011 14:33 i love this film its really good and all the bad comments are pathetic :/
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Posted on Dec 23 2010 18:02
Has anyone else noticed that in Wild Child, Drippy says "3rd Grade" and she's meant to be 'British'. NOBODY uses "grade" when talking about school years in Britain. Therefore a common American writers mistake for a "British" film. IN YOUR FACE SUCKER.
I'm sorry, but it made me LOOLLLLL! when I figured that out.
-I'm British myself, and I LOLed after watching it for over a year! Don't ask why, but I found it so funny. And she calls herself British? pshh ;)
PS - I'm not a hater, I just had to say this.
☮ + ♥ ! - Report as inappropriate
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- lol said...
- Posted on Jul 13 2010 17:49 this is the worst film i have ever seen seriously the jokes are sterotypical and dry nothing about it is good
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- Lucy said...
- Posted on Apr 16 2010 16:22 Very sterotypical of English people (we do have wireless over here and we are allowed to use mobile phones in school!), but a guilty pleasure film that is easy and enjoyable to watch.
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- Lucy said...
- Posted on Apr 16 2010 16:22 Very sterotypical of English people (we do have wireless over here and we are allowed to use mobile phones in school!), but a guilty pleasure film that is easy and enjoyable to watch.
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- chloe said...
- Posted on Apr 01 2010 11:59 i think this film wild child is intresting and brilliant for people to wach and shows some one can change with diffrent groups of people
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- Zoe said...
- Posted on Feb 01 2010 18:09 loved this film would defiantly watch it again :):)
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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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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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