A Girl Like Her

I attended a Catholic school and was bullied by a gang of girls for 6 years in elementary school.. Punched, pushed, kicked in the school yard in an all nun school in the 1960's. How the nuns didn't know what was going on amazes me now at 60! I look back and call them monsters, they should be outed by everyone, end the snitch stigma related by gangsta's, and show this film in every middle and high school. No one should be tormented by these monsters daily, if you see something, say something should be the tag line in our schools! Apologies, sorry are all too late for many of us, and how we can tolerate this behavior ...just shocking!

I heard about this movie on Facebook and needed to see it right away. Something about it and the description just drew me in, and my curiosity just made me jump on it.

A movie from different angles of people who have their own cameras is definitely an interesting way of visually seeing the movie. There are other movies that do this extremely effectively too, like End of Watch the cop movie.

The story was fantastic and I felt it made a lot of great points. It will certainly speak to the bullied about what it feels like to be alone and not feel like they can talk to anyone about it and that no one could understand it.

It is a dark movie. It was not afraid to go to some surprisingly dark places. Maybe even too dark for me at times. There were parts troubling enough that I had to look away.

I would recommend this movie, but be warned that it is troubling and may not go the directions that you want it to.

Whoaaa...this was MIND BLOWING! It is based on a true story about a girl who was relentlessly bullied at school and couldn't take it any more. She and her friend filmed the bullying before she tried to take her own life. THIS SHOULD BE COMPULSORY in every school without preaching. I DARE you to not be floored!!! The acting was brilliant and the documentary style really well done. It gave a very real effect and made you feel so much more and connect with the characters. I don't know why this hasn't been more popular or well known than what it is but it deserves every star. I will definitely watch it again and tell people about it.

Writer-Director Amy S. Weber just got so much better with her massively insightful and deeply educational film about Bullying entitled "A Girl Like Her". It is one of the best movies about Bullying I have seen. The movie stars Lexi Ainsworth as Jessica Burns, a high school sophomore who has been a victim of bullying & cyberbullying by the mean spirited Avery Keller, played by Hunter King. Jessica's best friend is Brian Slater, played by Jimmy Bennett. Each attend South Brookdale High School, who has been named one of the top high schools in the country. A documentary team does a feature on the accolades of South Brookdale, but simultaneously as that is happening, Jessica tries to commit suicide due to Avery's rambunctious & endless bullying preyed on to Jessica. In finding out that Avery bullied Jessica, the film team decides to twist the feature and focus it on Avery and her dealings on being a popular student. Many lessons on Bullying are presented very effectively throughout the rest of the film. I believe that every high school should show "A Girl Like Her" to their students, it is that important of a subject matter and Weber does an admirable job in highlighting the effects of bullying, the importance of being a proactive bystander, and what makes a bully commit harassing acts. And the film's integration of surveillance makes it an even more deeper look into the Bullying subject matter. I liked the work of Ainsworth as Burns, but the showstopper performance here is from Hunter King as Keller. Hunter might have just hunted down some more motion picture roles in springboarding from her phenomenal work here. Hey, I'm not gonna bully you into watching "A Girl Like Her", but I do think it's an upstanding film! ***** Excellent

It was an interesting take on the subject of Bullying.

After Jessica Burns' attempted suicide, A film crew doing a documentary on her school, begins to focus on what made her do it and the the fingers point to Avery Keller, a popular sophomore who for some reason made Jessica her victim, the documentary then takes a look at the life of Avery Keller to see what makes her tick.

The movie pushed all the right buttons for me, I felt it was evenly laid out as we got to see what Jessica is going through which is the more favorable issue, but we also got to see where Avery was coming from. The movie does not attempt to sugar coat her villainy, but we all needed to know what was fueling the fire in order to understand it.

Not bad