Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. The film made its American television premiere on ABC Family on August 8, 2010.
In a wild prank with her friends, Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts), an affluent California teenager living in Malibu, ruins all her father's (Aidan Quinn) girlfriend's belongings. When her father angrily arrives, he tells her that he is sending her to a boarding school in England.
Arriving at the school, called Abbey Mount School, Poppy meets the headmistress, Mrs. Kingsley (Natasha Richardson), head girl, Harriet Bentley (Georgia King), and her 'big sister', Kate (Kimberley Nixon). She is miserable in her new life as she does not fit in and has no friends. After two weeks, Poppy sneaks out after lights-out and writes an email to Ruby, her best friend in Malibu, complaining about her new school and classmates. She sees one of her roommates, Drippy (Juno Temple) walking through the hall, and follows her to the school's freezer, where Drippy is indulging her ice cream craving.
Disgusted, Poppy walks back. As she is, however, there is a fire drill, and she sneaks out the window to
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