Odd Girl Out
Directed by	Tom McLoughlin
Starring	Alexa Vega Lisa Vidal Leah Pipes Shari Dyon Perry Elizabeth Rice Alicia Morton Rhoda Griffis

Odd Girl Out is a 2005 drama telefilm starring Alexa Vega (Vanessa), Lisa Vidal (Barbara), Elizabeth Rice (Nikki), Alicia Morton (Tiffany), Leah Pipes (Stacy), Shari Dyon Perry (Emily), Joey Nappo (Ezra) and Chad Biagini (Tony). The movie was first aired on April 4, 2005 on Lifetime Television. It is the story about the struggles of 13-year-old Vanessa Snyder, who must deal with the brutality and peer pressure of middle school students. Image File history File links Oddgirloutposter. ... Tom McLoughlin, b. ... Alexa Ellesse Vega (born August 27, 1988) is an American actress and occasional singer. ... Lisa Vidal (born June 13, 1965 in New York City) is an actress of Puerto Rican descent. ... Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ... Alicia Morton (born April 29, 1987 in Gonzales, Louisiana) is an American actress. ... Rhoda Griffis is an American actress. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ... Alexa Ellesse Vega (born August 27, 1988) is an American actress and occasional singer. ... Lisa Vidal (born June 13, 1965 in New York City) is an actress of Puerto Rican descent. ... Alicia Morton (born April 29, 1987 in Gonzales, Louisiana) is an American actress. ... Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ... is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Peer pressure comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/or behaviors. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary/elementary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ...

This film is based on the advice book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons. It sheds light into the topic of girls' hostility and bullying which is usually non-physical, indirect and hard to detect. Simmons tells the reader that this problem is harmful, destructive and usually ignored, leaving victims to suffer in silence. Rachel Simmons, born August 10, 1974, is an American author of the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. ... Anger is a term for the emotional aspect of aggression, as a basic aspect of the stress response in animals whereby a perceived aggravating stimulus provokes a counterresponse which is likewise aggravating and threatening of violence. ... Bullying is the tormenting of others through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. ...

Plot

Vanessa Snyder is a smart, beautiful, athletic and adored eighth-grader in her school. She has a loving single mother, Barbara, who is proud of her well-placed daughter. Vanessa is also "in" with a popular clique, led by her best friend Stacy Larson, the Queen Bee, and Nikki Rodriguez, who is secretly jealous of Stacy and Vanessa's bonding. On the outside of this exclusive friendship circle is the bitter antisocial outcast, Emily, and blonde wannabe, Tiffany, who's dying to make it into the pack. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Wannabe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The bad times begin when Nikki tricks Vanessa into getting close to Tony, a boy whom Stacy has a crush on. A web of lies, nasty rumors and manipulation ensue, and Vanessa is ostracized by the clique for "backstabbing" Stacy. Helpless, Vanessa soon faces the non-physical conflict and verbal violence from her former friends, Nikki and the others. Making the clique stronger is Tiffany, who has been accepted into the group and poisoning the others against Vanessa. Although Nikki is the main girl who is tormenting Vanessa, Stacy plays her part by pretending she's still Vanessa's best friend and not stopping the verbal attacks on her. She has shown being uncomfortable in some of the situations, hinting she might regret this happening, and that "The Pack" is going too far. Vanessa is slowly pushed out of class activities, called names, socially isolated and the worst, her tormentors create a hate site about her. The word manipulation can refer to: Joint manipulation Social influence Sleight of hand tricks in magic or XCM. Abuse Advertising Brainwashing Charisma Fraud Indoctrination Love bombing Machiavellianism Media manipulation Mind control Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Propaganda Social psychology Puppeteer Photo manipulation Categories: | | ... In modern parlance, to ostracize means to exclude someone from society or from a community, by not communicating with or even noticing them, similar to shunning. ... To attack (someone) unfairly, especially in an underhand, deceitful manner: “Some backstab each other and threaten to settle their differences with a punch” (Thomas Boswell). ... The term hate site is used by some to refer to websites that are said to promote hatred. ...

Emily tries to convince Vanessa not to go running back to the clique, but Vanessa keeps attempting to seek reconciliation with Stacy, to disastrous results. The bullying escalates, with Stacy, Nikki and Tiffany (and other hanger-ons) cornering Vanessa inside a bathroom and brutalizing her verbally, including degrading every aspect of her and revealing her embarrassing secrets. Vanessa ends up chopping all her hair off while in a nervous breakdown. Then she starts cutting school, fearing the horror in the hallways. The bullies also offer several fake "truces" for her to help them in schoolwork, only to dump her repeatedly. A monument to reconciliation in Ottawa. ...

Once Vanessa's mother, Barbara, sees a print-out of comments about Vanessa's new hair, she tries to help by informing the school principal about the bullying, to no avail as the school board is unable to take disciplinary action against non-physical bullying. Barbara even tries to talk to Stacy's mother but only ends up straining their friendship. Even an adult like Barbara is helpless in the face of teen violence.

After Vanessa is invited to a party which doesn't really exist, she goes ballistic, and attempts suicide, but survives and later regrets it. She befriends Emily, the only girl to visit her in the hospital. For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...

Back home, Barbara spots malicious instant messages popping up on Vanessa's computer. She sends them to the principal, who threatens to expel the culprits, who were Nikki, Tiffany and Ezra, another tormentor if they deny that they cyber-bullied Vanessa. An instant messenger is a computer application which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ... Cyber bullying (cyberbullying, cyber-bullying, online bullying) is the use of electronic information and communication devices such as e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, mobile phones, pagers and defamatory websites to bully or otherwise harass an individual or group through personal attacks or other means, and it may constitute a...

When Vanessa returns to school, she and Stacy reunite after Stacy convinces her that she's sorry about the catastrophe. They IM each other about how great it feels to be best friends again. Then graduation day comes and the final derision happens when Nikki and Tiffany read aloud the chat between Vanessa and Stacy which was printed out by Nikki. Vanessa finds Stacy and confronts her in front of everyone (including the parents) and stands up to the bully, something that no one has dared to do before. Vanessa brings everything down on Stacy and sees right through her offer of fake friendship.

The movie ends with a humiliated and crying Stacy fleeing the school after having her methods fly back in her face, de-throned, and her two "workers" Nikki and Tiffany left powerless without a leader. Vanessa is applauded by bystanders and she hugs Emily, the only true friend she's had. They both leave for an after-party, effectively disbanding the bullying clique.

Cast

• Alexa Vega - Vanessa Snyder
• Lisa Vidal - Barbara Snyder
• Leah Pipes - Stacy Larson
• Alicia Morton - Tiffany
• Krizia Vega - Wannabe #3
• Rhoda Griffis - Denise Larson
• Elizabeth Rice - Nikki Rodriguez
• Michael Arata - Dave Larson
• Shari Dyon Perry - Emily

Alexa Ellesse Vega (born August 27, 1988) is an American actress and occasional singer. ... Lisa Vidal (born June 13, 1965 in New York City) is an actress of Puerto Rican descent. ... Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ... Alicia Morton (born April 29, 1987 in Gonzales, Louisiana) is an American actress. ... Rhoda Griffis is an American actress. ... Michael Arata (born February 23, 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor and film producer. ...

External links

• Odd Girl Out at the Internet Movie Database