Wild Child
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Our read · Wild Child (2008) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Wild Child
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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