Today’s movie is a drama with a
scene that happens on April 23. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it
tonight.
CYBERBULLY
On her seventeenth birthday April
23, 2011 [00:01 to 8:56] Taylor Hillridge gets her own laptop computer. Taylor is friends with Samantha Caldone and
Cheyenne Mortenson, but does not get along with her brother Eric or the popular
girl at school, Lindsay Fordyce. Taylor has a crush on Scott Ozsik. Samantha
does not like Scott because she had dated his best friend who later dumped her.
Taylor uses her computer to chat online at a teen site named Cliquester. She
gets a friend request online from a boy named James. Then Eric hacks her
account and posts a mean comment about her online. Soon everyone piles on
posting terrible things about her, topped off by James claiming she slept with
him and gave him an STD. Scott, who had asked Taylor to the dance weasels out
of taking her. Samantha and Cheyenne also begin to turn their backs on Taylor
as people post terrible comments about Taylor online. Taylor becomes so
depressed she tries to commit suicide, but is stopped by Samantha. Taylor’s mom
tries to find ‘James’ and get an anti-cyberbullying law passed. Taylor goes to
a support group and learns how to handle the bullying. Then she learns Samantha
was the one who created the ‘James’ profile.
Samantha then becomes a target for the cyberbullies herself. Eventually
Taylor, Samantha and Cheyenne become friends again and they with Scott stand up
to Lindsay and her clique, while her mom’e afforts have gotten an
anti-cyberbullying law passed.
This is a preachy kind of film,
but a necessary one. It does highlight a problem that needs to be addressed.
All teens should watch this movie. This film is interesting enough, but more
character development would have helped make it a better movie and less of a
long PSA.
At 3:38-53 we are told is Shakespeare’s birthday, which is
this date as per Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
(Doubleday, New York, 2005) at page 3.
Director - Charles Binamé
Screenplay - Teena Booth
Runtime – 1 hour 27 minutes
Released – July 17, 2011
Starring –
Emily Osment as
Taylor Hillridge
Kay Panabaker as Samantha Caldone
Kelly Rowan as Kris Hillridge
Jon McLaren as Scott Ozsik
Meaghan Rath as Cheyenne Mortenson
Jade Hassouné as Caleb
Robert Naylor as Eric Hillridge
Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.
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