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Title: A Girl Like Her (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Hunter King | ... | Avery Keller | |
| Lexi Ainsworth | ... | Jessica Burns | |
| Jimmy Bennett | ... | Brian Slater | |
| Amy S. Weber | ... | Filmmaker / Amy Gallagher | |
| Stephanie Cotton | ... | Margarete Burns | |
| Mark Boyd | ... | Gerald Burns | |
| Christy Engle | ... | Kassie Keller (as Christy Engle-McGuckin) | |
| Jon W. Martin | ... | David Keller (as Jon Martin) | |
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Madison Deadman | ... | Emily Sailler |
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Anna Spaseski | ... | Maddy Morrison |
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Mariah Harrison | ... | Tessa Jackson |
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Emma Dwyer | ... | Kayla Baker |
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Michael Maurice | ... | Principal Richard Harris |
| Christy Edwards | ... | Sherrie Sims | |
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Kevin Yon | ... | Robert Hipple |
16 year old Jessica Burns has a secret that she's afraid to share with anyone - except her best friend, Brian Slater. For the past year she's been victimized by another girl - her former friend, Avery Keller, one of South Brookdale High School's most popular and beautiful students. What can you do when the world sees the image of a person but not the reality? With Brian's help and a hidden digital camera, the evidence of Avery's relentless harassment is captured and finally exposed-bringing both girls and their families face to face with the truth. Written by Radish Creative Group
Saw this movie by chance - was looking for something to watch, opened up Netflix, and it was on the main screen as a suggested title. With a cast of mostly unknowns, I wasn't expecting much. But I was surprised.
The acting was mostly very good. Lexi Ainsworth was very believable as the bullied Jessica. I cried along with her, as someone who was also bullied in high school. (To a lesser extent, and before cell phones and social media were really a thing yet.)
For the most part, the story was believable and moving. My only problem with it was that it reinforces the false assumption that bullies usually have a difficult home life. This was the kind of information that was generally believed to be true back when I was in school (graduated high school in 2002), but we know a lot more today. Most bullies come from good families and have good lives.
By the end of the film, I felt like we were supposed to feel a certain amount of sympathy for Avery. But despite how things were portrayed - her life was really not that bad at all. I felt that a lot of things were exaggerated.
Avery wasn't bullying Jessica because her parents fought sometimes and her mom was a little controlling, she was bullying Jessica because she was a cruel, mean, heartless, narcissistic brat. No one with a conscience could treat another person that way. Period. No sympathy for bullies.