History Film / WildChild

* KickTheDog: Harriet's treatment of her Year Seven "maid" almost borders on ComedicSociopathy.

* EvilBrit: Harriet.

* 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.
** However, it's possible she was too young to remember the incident. Poppy states she herself was eleven when it happened.
* IAmSpartacus: When Poppy is standing trial, every single girl in the room (except Harriet) gets up and says they were with her in the night of the fire.
* IAmVeryBritish

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: 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.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Harriet.

* BoardingSchool: The primary setting.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Poppy.
* BritishStuffiness: Harriet, especially when Poppy gives out her details as a telephone sex line.

* CelebrityParadox: Poppy mentions Hogwarts once in the film, [[Creator/ShirleyHenderson Shirley Henderson]], who plays Matron, also portrayed Moaning Myrtle in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series.
* ChekhovsGun: Poppy was warned to log out the computer when done using it. She forgets after writing an email she never intended to send allowing [[spoiler: Harriet]] to print out copies of the email and use it to turn her friends against her.
* CloserToEarth: Kate.
* CloudCuckoolander: Drippy.

* 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.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Harriet. [[spoiler:At least until she set the school on fire and tried to blame it on Poppy!]]

** Poppy starts the movie kicking the dog, by giving away and destroying all the stuff belonging to her dad's girlfriend--though KarmaHoudini greatly averted when Poppy's dad punishes her by sending her to Abbey Mount.

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

* 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.

* WakeUpMakeUp: Poppy has suspiciously perfect makeup for somebody who is supposed to be just waking up during her very first scene.

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

-->[[spoiler:'''Poppy:''' Freddy found the lighter before anyone saw it. How could you possibly know unless... ''[[EurekaMoment unless you were there?]]''\\

-->[[spoiler:'''Poppy:''' I had put [the fire] out. And then I heard footsteps, it must’ve been you! Oh my God, you restarted the fire, didn’t you? [...] It all makes sense now, I knew it! I... think I’m innocent.\\

-->[[spoiler:'''Poppy:''' I had put [the fire] out. And then I heard footsteps, it must’ve been you! Oh my God, you restarted the fire, didn’t you? [...] It all makes sense now, I knew it! I... think I’m innocent.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Jane and Charlotte:''' We think so too!]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Harriet:''' YOU’RE NOT! You awful bitch! You’ve turned this school upside down! You’ve ruined everything! ''You'' started it! ''I ONLY FINISHED WHAT YOU STARTED!'']]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "What lighter, Harriet?"]]

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

''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]].

her new step mother's belongings, just for [[DisproportionateRetribution marrying Poppy's father.]]
* 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.

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

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Harriet, after the above mentioned IAmSpartacus moment and her [[INeverSaidItWasPoison slip up about Poppy’s lighter]], which helps Poppy piece together what must've happened the night of the fire. This sends Harriet into a fury, ranting and cussing out Poppy and accidentally revealing in front of ''everyone'' that she restarted the fire.]]

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

** 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.]]

* 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.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Harriet, after the above mentioned IAmSpartacus moment and her [[INeverSaidItWasPoison slip up about Poppy’s lighter]], which helps Poppy piece together what really happened the night of the fire. This sends Harriet into a fury, ranting and cussing out Poppy and accidentally revealing in front of ''everyone'' that she restarted the fire.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Harriet, near the end of the trial scene, after the above mentioned IAmSpartacus moment and her [[INeverSaidItWasPoison slip up about Poppy’s lighter]], which helps Poppy piece together what happened the night of the fire. This finally sends Harriet into a fury, ranting and cussing out Poppy and accidentally revealing in front of ''everyone'' that she did restart the fire.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Poppy:''' It all makes sense now, I knew it! I... think I’m innocent.]]\\

* 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.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Harriet...what lighter?"]]

* BoardingSchool

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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.

* CustomUniform: Poppy's uniform on her first day at Abbey Mount, that is basically her school's uniform made stylish.

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

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

* FiveManBand: Poppy and her four friends.
** TheHero: Poppy
** TheLancer: Kate
** TheSmartGuy: Kiki
** TheBigGuy: Josie, sort of. Shares this role with Drippy.
** TheChick: Drippy.

* 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]].