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I usually have much fun in deriding all of the bad Lifetime movies that my wife watches all the time. I caught this one about 15 minutes in, and kept watching too. It was pretty good. The acting is decent, and the director and writer do a good job of spacing out and escalating the bullying that the girl endures. I thought it was also good how the main character, as she keeps getting bullied, continues to try to find a way back into her crowd. Because, it's realistic. People put up with all kinds of crap to get accepted into a clique. And, the mom's performance was solid too, realizing too late but trying everything she could be figure out why her daughter was getting more and more upset. Good flick. I'd watch it again.

"Odd Girl Out" (2005) Alexa Vega, Lisa Vidal, Leah Pipes. 4.5/5.0 stars. When a girl (Vega) finds that her closest friends start to spread rumors and ruin her life she starts to break down to the hurtful and often harmful rituals of High School. Vanessa is your average girl trying to find herself in the world. She is friends with Stacey (Leah Pipes), the most popular girl in school, until Nikki (Elizabeth Rice) and Tiffany (Alicia Morton) sabotage her friendship with the queen bee and the clique. She is tortured throughout the school year until finally, the words start to get to her, and not in a good way. The school outcast, Emily (Perry) joins Vanessa on her quest to navigate through the dreadful everyday life that our teens go through everyday. My thoughts on it-This definitely hit the surface with a stone, and made some huge points that "Mean Girls" (2004) failed to point out. HIhg School may be the hardest times of our lives. Especially when your friends turn on you, and you are all alone in a teenage wasteland of betrayal, rumors, and raging hormones. This is the real deal. The secret life of girls is NOT pretty. What goes on behind our backs-Its one place where you cannot protect your children. Parents should know that this movie does contain some very dramatic elements to it. There is some very intense moments or drama and schoolyard insults such as slut, whore, or bitch. There is some sexual references made through out the movie. Children under 13 should have an adult or guardian around for some mild discretion.

Rated TV-14 for Strong language and thematic elements.

Odd Girl Out is probably one to of the most realistic movies made-for-teens\pre-teens out there. I have seen She's Too Young, Mean Girls, etc, but this is the best. It is about a girl Vanessa who is one of the top popular girls in her school. Her life is great- she's got straight A's,she's on the school soccer team, and her best friend Stacy by her side. Everything is great- except for her friend Nikki. Slowly, but surely Nikki begins to build a web of lies, taunts, and rumors about Nikki. She tells Stacy that Vanessa is trying to steal her "boyfriend", and Vanessa goes from the popular table to the loser table. Nikki, Stacy, Emily, the Nikki replaced clone, and other girls begin to tear apart Vanessa's life-taunting her, calling her fat, and playing mind games on her. Soon Vanessa becomes depressed and goes desperate to claim her throne in the popular crowd once again.

This movie was so good! Except for the dim lighting and the that rap they had in there it was great. Leah Pipes and Alicia Morton played such good roles I"ll never be able to watch Disney movies the same way again. Alexa Vega was great and played a believable thirteen year old, unlike Leah Pipes who was a little too old for the movie.

Overall, it's a great movie! I think anyone between the ages 12-15 should watch it!

I watched this movie the first night it was shown on lifetime....and I cried....I am Vanessa....I am an odd girl out....I have been made fun of...humiliated....teased.....and every single thing that Vanessa went through/ did I have went through and I have done....I think everything in this movie was done perfectly. It shows girls that high school is hell and you have to know how to deal with it. Girls are mean and they will be mean no matter what...I am a senior in high school with less than 3 months left and people still start with me for no reason and try to bring me down. I was amazed at this movie and I think every teenage girl should watch this. Especially those that bully/tease....they need to realize that they are NOT perfect what so ever...and that all of the teasing they do can have horrible effects. It wont stop any of them...but maybe they would be a little less harsh or at least have some sympathy.

As much as i wanted to hate this movie I could not. I knew it was a made for t.v. movie and I could tell it was a movie for teenage girls (i am a 16 year old male). What could I possibly find to like in a movie like this. Surprisingly I found a lot. The acting, while not amazing, is believable enough to make this movie work. This movie gives a mostly realistic depiction of the gossip world in a modern day public high school. There are a few times in the movie where they simply over do it but most of the time it is right on target. Watching Vanessa (the main character) get socially torn apart was very sad to watch and even at the end i was left wondering where she was going next. A very good movie if you are looking for something to tug at your heartstrings.

I saw this movie on Lifetime T.V. It was really hyped up so I figured it had to be somewhat decent. It's the story of Alexa Vega (Spykids) as a teenage girl trying to fit in with some popular girls in her high school. The girls she tries to be friends with end up turning on her and make her feel miserable. I didn't care too much for the lighting job. I mean how many schools and classrooms do you see that are almost pitch black? Vanessa and her mom, played by the lovely and talented Lisa Vidal, have that relationship we see too much of these days. The father of the family, who we never see, is divorced and living somewhere else so the mom is left to deal with all of Vanessa's problems. This is one to watch if you have a teen age girl at home! 7/10!

I accidentally bumped into this made for High-Schoolers TV outing on Channel 4 one cold winter's weekday afternoon when I was off work.

It's 25 years since I was at the UK equivalent (secondary school) and I'm a bloke. So probably not that close to the subject matter.

But it was stylishly done with dark and moody lighting (don't American schools have light bulbs?) and attractive lead characters.

The acting wasn't movie standard, but not too bad.

What was good was the plot. And the attention to detail. In real life bullies get physical. But in this day and age the abuse is more likely to be psychological and delivered with the aid of technology. The internet and mobile phones can be vicious weapons. In that respect this film was a fresh look at an old problem.

I suspect most reviewers and readers will be of school age. Sorry to tell you that there were school bullies long before me (look up Tom Brown's Schooldays) and they'll be around long after you lot have 'graduated' as you call it.

But bullies are weak. Those on the receiving end need to be strong (I refuse to call them victims).

An entertaining film, if a little juvenile for me. But I watched it 'till the end so that says something!

I'm a man. Previously a boy.

Except for certain advances in communications technology made since 1982, I had basically the exact same experience as the girl in the movie (with all the genders reversed, of course).

For people who have been through an experience as vindictive, drawn-out, thorough, and unrelenting as the experience suffered by the girl in the movie, this will be a movie-watching experience both very painful and very valuable.

Perhaps even more so for those of us who didn't have a parent as ideal and understanding as the one in the film. But, for the purposes of the film and its messages, that character is well-designed and serves many useful purposes.

This film covers a lot of bases in a lot of ways. It's an impressive accomplishment, seeing as it's impossible to really do justice to the subject matter in the space of a standard film. Very, very impressive.

I like hard-hitting, gritty dramas like Requiem For A Dream, Bad Lieutenant, and that sort of thing (also, harsh black comedies like Shallow Grave, Bitter Moon, etc.). This film hit me harder than any of those.

Girls can be as visibly and simply and physically violent as the stereotypical boys (e.g., the tormentors and killers of Reena Virk in British Columbia, Canada). And boys can be as invisibly and complexly and non-physically violent as the stereotypical girls.

It's not a simple world out there. And it has a lot of barbarians in it. Male and female. And they don't all fit within the usual gender roles.

There are plenty of masculine, heterosexual evil boys who behave like evil girls -- because they know it's tougher to get caught that way and that the damage done is deeper; in other words, the smarter ones use more complex and indirect methods. And everyone is far less aware of them than the big, dumb, loud, physically-violent ones -- indeed they likely never get caught because their male victims wouldn't be manly/masculine/tough/cool/honourable/etc. if they were to complain about it or admit to being bothered by it or to cry about it, would they? Just show me all the girls who lust after and fall in love with men who cry about getting bullied. Oh, that's right, there aren't any -- they're too busy fawning over the thoughtful, intelligent, emotionally-literate, understanding Alpha-male goons who are beating those other guys up. Sorry, I forgot.

It's frequently unlike the stereotype of "boy beats guy up, and it's over -- simple." And in those cases, it's particularly damaging when you've been socialized into the idiotic philistine social orthodoxy of boys not being allowed to cry, and boys have to keep a stiff upper lip and hide and suppress their feelings.

Anyway.... the film accomplishes its goals and its messages beautifully. 9-outta-10.

If you like this movie you'll love the movie Thirteen (2003). The movies follow a very similar plot line but I think Thirteen does it so much better. That's not to say I don't like this movie I think it's good at showing online bullying and how schools will ignore bullying going on just because no one is being physically harmed. As a movie it's entertaining and I think Alexa Penavega does a very good job showing the characters pain but no one does a better job than Lisa Vidal who plays the mom. She plays the stress of the situation very realistically and it's heart breaking to watch.

So if you think this movie sounds interesting I'd suggest watching Thirteen after.

Seriously the movie would have been a lot better if the girls weren't so unbelievably mean... i am in high school and the people do not act like that at all...its not even like she had sex and shes being called a slut. this movie was a sad attempt to connect with high school. i think that the actresses in this movie could have been a lot better as well, they tried to be way too sinister and could have gotten a lot better in order to be in this movie. This movie should have been written better and gone into more detail of Vanessa and Stacey's friendship as well as that other girl Nikki... and personally i think that the characters were a little crazy to go that insane over a boy...so unrealistic

Superior made-for-TV effort. The director, an experienced horror flick maker, has a field day playing with the evil that is produced from warehousing many unwanted kids in government run schools. There is haunting music, harsh lighting and sinister dark shadows in most every school scene. The actors all play their parts well. The drama and emotions are driven far beyond the limits of most TV movies. I watched this film with a young adult who was recently teased and shunned by her group of friends. Wow, did ODD GIRL OUT ever hit a raw nerve with her, and judging from comments posted by other viewers, it has the power to expose deep hurts in many other viewers as well.

Along with the art and drama, there are many super-nice female forms to appreciate. Excellent job LIFETIME Channel!

Why would parents be clueless? Really? This is why today it is even worse because the issue is not addressed. Everyone turns the other cheek. How horrible that your story line shows the victim as easy targets. I am appalled because my granddaughter, who is ten (yes in 2017), has experienced bullying and then new thing cyberbullying. It is a ripple effect where the bullies prevail, even the victim's friends are not around because of manipulation, and the victim does nothing. Seems since this movie has been made, it didn't help. It made you money. It also shows the ignorance we all are responsible for since it is a responsibility of all of u s. Not just the victims. The most realistic movie is "13 reasons"even though it could lead some question of suicide. But these shows are about children shutting down, not talking to their parents or someone!

If you like would like to see a version of "Mean Girls" without the Comedy and with lots of drama this is your movie. I don't think I have seen a better movie that showed the real side of high school pressure. The movie actually shows what can really happen and how best friends aren't always forever, especially in a "popular crowd" because really its out to get to you. The movies by far one of my favorite movies and made me think if that would ever happened to me , what would I do? I liked how the movie made Vanessa get sucked back into the friendship with Stacey but in the end have the pressure let lose and bring it all on Stacey and show how ugly she was inside and how fake she was. This is a great movie to show to people about what peer pressuring could do to you and how effects your lifestyle. But I warn you when you watch the movie ... have a box of Kleenex because I surely needed it .

This movie is basically about girls bullying one girl. It starts off with 3 friends, 2 of them being best friends while the other is more like the 3rd wheel type and is clearly jealous, so to move up the friend ranking, she decides to set up the kind hearted best friend, then replace the best friend with a "wannabe" friend. The plan involves a guy, so naturally it works. They bully her so much.

This story pretty much paints a picture of how some girl cliques act and how they hurt the girl being bullied. The only thing I questioned with being real was a guy actually getting involved in calling the girl names, but the girls were spot on. One was clear cut mean, the other a wannabe, while the queen bee was such a fake. Good movie to show and teach kids on bullying.

I was a little younger when I first watched this movie. It was about bullying and how catty girls could be; being a huge fan of the movie "Mean Girls", I decided to rewatch the movie with two of my other male friends a few days ago, thinking I would be impressed. I was not.

I definitely wasn't expecting this to be a comedy so I was looking forward to some real intellectual drama. What I got instead was an average performance by most of the actors and a very melodramatic script with stereotyped characters.

The mother was actually fairly realistic and her acting was undoubtedly better than anyone else's. But still, her character isn't original, because we've seen the same Mom in dozens of high school movies. Another flaw is that the film's antagonists seem to have nothing else to do with their lives other than making Vanessa miserable. It's not an accurate portrayal of high school because the mean girls aren't just mean; they're borderline evil.

It's not a terrible movie but I'd never recommend it to anyone. I can see how it might appeal to some people, but it's just too over the top for me to enjoy. I would recommend watching "Mean Girls" if you're looking for a good movie with a strong message. If you're looking for something dramatic, try "Cyberbully".

It isn't much better than this film but the acting is far superior and the protagonists are much more likable. But to be honest, I wouldn't really recommend that movie ordinarily, either.

Odd girl out was very moving in my opinion I've watched it like 10 times already Cause i love it SO much but once i watched it the first time i think i cried but anyways i kinda figured out that,that is how some of my friends and even I act towards other people in my school and i mean I'm only in 7th grade but its still hurts and I know from experience and it can hurt your feelings not to mention your pride can be scared for life by nasty rumors people make up and as my mom always says " Rumors are as stupid as the people who start them." and in some ways i believe that but then again in some ways i don't the rumors could be false and then that might or might not blow over but then in another way if they are true and people have proof then your could be in trouble cause you brought this upon yourself . Odd Girl Out really helped me under stand how people felt when i called them names. So from now on I'll hold my tongue and be nicer.

~Sammy~

I was pleasantly surprised by how well thought out and thought-provoking this films was. It might seem as a stereotypical situation when you see a girl being bullied by her friends in high school. This film, however, provides something original and more insightful than you would usually expect from a genre and premise like this. In the film we see a popular, good-looking girl turned into a victim, which is rather unusual and fresh. And I did root for the girl and indeed I was angry with what was happening to her, and therefore I wanted things to be sorted out by the end of the film. Ultimately, a great drama with a great story-line and character development.

Teenage Drama '' Odd Girl Out '' is a movie about a girl who is severelly bullied by her best friend and her minions.

The movie starts off kind of odd, making you think that this will be just another teenage rom com, though the dark corridors surely give a hint of what is yet to come. And things slowly escalate from there.

The drama hits its peak when the mom starts getting involved in the case, and it is also when, after hitting rock bottom, our firl finally realizes how she should handle her toxic best friend.

The performances were, also, enjoyable by everyone in the cast.

And even though it feels like a tv movie, the film manages to present the story quite nicely.

Apart from the annoying camera and irritating lighting, the movie was okay. It did portray gossip and bullies well, but went overboard. The girls went too far with the ridicule. Girls do gossip and talk about each other, but they would not go as far as they did in the movie. It becomes unbelievable.

Alexa Vega is amazing. I never did like Alexa based on her other films, but she was incredible in this. She shows her emotions well and you really feel sorry for her character. As for the bullies, they do well and are extremely mean.

Even though the movie stretches it a bit, I believe it is still good to watch to understand the problems with middle school and high school.