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A GIRL LIKE HER is a fictionalized documentary about bullying at South Brookdale High School. When sophomore Jessica Burns (Lexi Ainsworth) attempts suicide by swallowing her mother's sleeping pills and ends up comatose, the "documentarian" interviews teachers, administrators, and other students to figure out what went gone wrong. One name ...
- Amy S. Weber
- Sandie Angulo Chen
- Jimmy Bennett, Hunter King, Lexi Ainsworth
Mar 27, 2015 · 65% Tomatometer 23 Reviews 80% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings A teenager asks her best friend to help prove that one of their school's most beautiful and popular students has secretly been...
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- Amy S. Weber
- PG-13
- Hunter King
Mar 26, 2015 · Using a mix of found footage and more traditional documentary style complete with intertitles, chyrons and an off-screen director interacting with the film’s characters, “A Girl Like Her” tells...
Mar 30, 2015 · Film Review: ‘A Girl Like Her’. A conceptually sophisticated, emotionally manipulative drama about America's teen bullying epidemic. By Justin Chang. Image Courtesy of Parkside Releasing.
Mar 25, 2015 · Amy quickly uncovers the open secret that Jessica was being tormented by her former friend Avery (Hunter King), whose cruel texts, verbal taunts and physical assaults drove her to utter despair.
A Girl Like Her Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Jonathan Kiefer SF Weekly. Well-intentioned but belabored, Weber's documentary conceit ultimately saps...
Mar 27, 2015 · A Girl Like Her - Metacritic. 2015. PG-13. ParkSide Releasing. 1 h 31 m. Summary After the attempted suicide of a 16 year-old girl results in a coma, a film crew set out to reveal what happened, leading them to discover footage documenting the torment she suffered at the hands of a bully. Drama.
