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* ButtMonkey: Whenever the plot calls for (or even when it doesn't call for) a student of Abbey Mount to make a fool of herself, get hopelessly drunk and pass out in a puddle of vomit, someone other than Poppy to be bullied or even for someone to be in a life-threatening situation, it WILL be Drippy.
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* INeverSaiditWasPoison: [[spoiler: Harriet rants at Poppy for starting the school fire, and mentions Poppy's lighter - unfortunately for Harriet, nobody knows that a lighter was used to start the fire.]]

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* INeverSaiditWasPoison: INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler: Harriet rants at Poppy for starting the school fire, and mentions Poppy's lighter - unfortunately for Harriet, nobody knows that a lighter was used to start the fire.]]
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* BlondesAreEvil: Harriet. Also, Poppy goes from blonde to brunette over the course of the story, signifying the postive changes to her character.

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* BlondesAreEvil: Harriet. Also, Poppy goes from blonde to brunette over the course of the story, signifying the postive positive changes to her character.
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* BlondesAreEvil: Harriet. Also, Poppy goes from blonde to brunette over the course of the story, signifying the postive changes to her character.


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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Oh, Harriet.
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* INeverSaiditWasPoison: [[spoiler: Harriet rants at Poppy for starting the school fire, and mentions Poppy's lighter - unfortunately for Harriet, nobody knows that a lighter was used to start the fire.]]
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* NationalStereotype: The girls assume Poppy is sexually experienced because she is from California.

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* NationalStereotype: NationalStereotypes: The girls assume Poppy is sexually experienced because she is from California.
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* HeyItsThatGuy!: Hey, it's NickFrost! [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]]!

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* HeyItsThatGuy!: Hey, it's NickFrost! [[HarryPotter [[Film/HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]]!
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* ItGotWorse: Poppy's friends all turn on her when her email account is hacked and they find a fake email detailing how much Poppy hates them, and Freddy stops speaking to her for the same reason. ''Then'' she finds out her best friend is sleeping with her boyfriend, and then she accidentally starts a fire.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Harriet.
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* BritishStuffiness: Harriet, especially when Poppy gives out her details as a telephone sex line.


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* EvilBrit: Harriet.


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* IAmVeryBritish
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* CruellaToAnimals: Harriet's love of [[BritishStereotypes hunting and shooting]] are used to show she's not a nice person.

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* CruellaToAnimals: Harriet's love of [[BritishStereotypes hunting and shooting]] shooting are used to show she's not a nice person.
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** Poppy herself seems to expect she will take on the mantle of AlphaBitch at her new school, but instead finds herself unpopular in this world.


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* CruellaToAnimals: Harriet's love of [[BritishStereotypes hunting and shooting]] are used to show she's not a nice person.


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** Poppy starts the movie kicking the dog, by giving away and destroying all her new step mother's belongings, just for [[DisproportionateRetribution marrying Poppy's father.]]
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* RichBitch: Poppy is this for most of the film, until she [[DefrostingIceQueen softens up]]. Harriet is also one, contrasting Poppy's spoiled Malibu princess qualities with her chilly upper class toffness.
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* Adorkable: Drippy, and Kate a little bit.

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* Adorkable: {{Adorkable}}: Drippy, and Kate a little bit.



* TheSchemer: Kiki.

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* TheSchemer: {{Schemer}}: Kiki.

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* DirectToDVD: Unlike many US/UK films produced by Working Title, this was its fate in the US. [[FourThreeTwoOne It would not be the last time this happened to a Britflick starring Emma Roberts]].



* NoExportForYou: Unlike many US/UK films produced by Working Title, this went DirectToDVD in the US. [[FourThreeTwoOne It would not be the last time a Britflick starring Emma Roberts would meet this fate]].
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* NoExportForYou: Unlike many US/UK films produced by Working Title, this went DirectToDVD in the US.

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* NoExportForYou: Unlike many US/UK films produced by Working Title, this went DirectToDVD in the US. [[FourThreeTwoOne It would not be the last time a Britflick starring Emma Roberts would meet this fate]].

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* Adorkable: Drippy, and Kate a little bit.



* BadBadActing: Drippy and Kate's attempts at pretending to be old enough to buy alcohol.
* BigEater: Drippy regularly sneaks into the school freezer at night for an ice-cream fix, plus she can't resist some cream eggs when the girls are attempting to buy alcohol.



* CloserToEarth: Kate.



* FreudianExcuse: Poppy, even though her younger sister has experienced [[spoiler: the loss of her mother]] as well and doesn't act like a brat.

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* FiveManBand: Poppy and her four friends.
** TheHero: Poppy
** TheLancer: Kate
** TheSmartGuy: Kiki
** TheBigGuy: Josie, sort of. Shares this role with Drippy.
** TheChick: Drippy.
* FreudianExcuse: Poppy, even though her younger sister Molly has experienced [[spoiler: the loss of her mother]] as well and doesn't act like a brat.



* HeyItsThatGuy!: Hey, it's NickFrost! [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]]!



* ItGotWorse: Poppy's friends all turn on her when her email account is hacked and they find a fake email detailing how much Poppy hates them, and Freddy stops speaking to her for the same reason. ''Then'' she finds out her best friend is sleeping with her boyfriend, and then she accidentally starts a fire.
* KickTheDog: Harriet's treatment of her Year Seven "maid" almost borders on ComedicSociopathy.



* NationalStereotype: The girls assume Poppy is sexuall experienced because she is from California.

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* NationalStereotype: The girls assume Poppy is sexuall sexually experienced because she is from California.



* OopNorth: Several of the girls have Northern accents, particularly Josie. Drippy, Kate and Harriet all have more Southern accents, though. The setting is in the North, however.



* TheSchemer: Kiki.
* SeriousBusiness: Lacrosse.



* SeriousBusiness: Lacrosse.


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* ThoseTwoGirls: Harriet's minions, Jane and Charlotte.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Drippy is sick on the grass right by Poppy's feet after the school dance, but you only hear it.
* WakeUpMakeUp: Poppy has suspiciously perfect makeup for somebody who is supposed to be just waking up during her very first scene.


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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Poppy's American friend Ruby, who is secretly sleeping with Poppy's boyfriend while she's in England.

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* Cloudcuckoolander: Drippy.

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* Cloudcuckoolander: CloudCuckoolander: Drippy.


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Drippy is always referred to by her nickname, except when Mrs. Kingsley calls her name on the school register. Her real name is Jennifer.

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Poppy

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: PoppyPoppy.


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** However, it's possible she was too young to remember the incident. Poppy states she herself was eleven when it happened.


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* MakeWayForThePrincess: Averted; Poppy seems to expect this at first, only for Harriet to coldly inform her that Americans rank somewhere below vermin in the school pecking order.
* NationalStereotype: The girls assume Poppy is sexuall experienced because she is from California.


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* PromotionToParent: Implied in the beginning that Poppy is to her little sister.


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* RunningGag: Poppy constantly using hand-sanitiser on everything. She stops once she goes through her CharacterDevelopment.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Somewhat of an aversion; Poppy is only after Freddy at first because he's Mrs. Kingsley's son, but later on she genuinely falls for him.


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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Poppy remarks she looks like her mother after she gets her hair dyed brunette.
* TeachersPet: Harriet tries to be this to Mrs. Kingsley, but her attempts are fairly transparent.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Harriet...what lighter?"]]
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Harriet. [[spoiler:At least until she set the school on fire and tried to blame it on Poppy!]]
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California [[SpoiledBrat brat]] who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]].

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Wild Child ''Wild Child'' is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore Moore, a spoiled California [[SpoiledBrat brat]] who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]].



* AbsurdlyPowerrfulStudentCouncil: Which is run by Harriet, who isn't exactly suited for the role.

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Sadly, most notable as Natasha Richardson's final screen appearance before her untimely passing the following year.



* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Poppy gets one about halfway through the film, switching from blonde to brown as she becomes less of a shallow jerkass. Interestingly, Harriet dyes her hair from blonde to brown as well, but she changes hers back after the school dance. (She was dressed as Kiera Knightly at the time.)

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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Poppy gets one about halfway through the film, switching from blonde to brown as she becomes less of a shallow jerkass. Interestingly, Harriet dyes her hair from blonde to brown as well, but she changes hers back after the school dance. (She was dressed as Kiera Knightly Keira Knightley at the time.)


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* NoExportForYou: Unlike many US/UK films produced by Working Title, this went DirectToDVD in the US.

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* AbsurdlyPowerrfulStudentCouncil: Which is run by Harriet, who isn't exactly suited for the role.
* AlphaBitch: Harriet, and Poppy's friend Ruby, although she's a little less obvious.
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Harriet's minions decide not to tell her crucial information about how close Poppy is getting to Freddy because she'll shoot the messenger.




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* Cloudcuckoolander: Drippy.
* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of the girls, especially Kate.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Poppy gets one about halfway through the film, switching from blonde to brown as she becomes less of a shallow jerkass. Interestingly, Harriet dyes her hair from blonde to brown as well, but she changes hers back after the school dance. (She was dressed as Kiera Knightly at the time.)
* FashionShopFashionShow: Well, it's in a charity shop so not exactly, but the girls do get a clothes montage at one point.
* FreudianExcuse: Poppy, even though her younger sister has experienced [[spoiler: the loss of her mother]] as well and doesn't act like a brat.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mrs. Kingsley.
* SeriousBusiness: Lacrosse.
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California [[SpoilededBrat brat]] who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]].

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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California [[SpoilededBrat [[SpoiledBrat brat]] who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]].
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California [[SpoilededBrat]] brat who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]].

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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California [[SpoilededBrat]] brat [[SpoilededBrat brat]] who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]].
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California brat who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. Hilarity ensues.

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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore a spoiled California [[SpoilededBrat]] brat who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues.
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson.

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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson.
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson.

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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson.Richardson.

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