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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Adult Language Movie Release: 2004 DVD Release: 01/10/2006 Format: DVD - Color - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 25 mins Studio: Lions Gate Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Drama, Teen Movie

The tyranny, cruelty, and sheer hell of high-school peer pressure and teen bullying has seldom been so vividly realized as in this made-for-cable drama, which some critics have likened to the theatrical feature Mean Girls. Alexa Vega heads the cast as Vanessa, a popular straight-A student who enjoys the friendship of campus queen Stacey (Leah Pipes). But when a quarrel fomented by a couple of Stacey's envious hangers-on results in a rift between Stacey and Vanessa, the latter girl suddenly finds herself persona non grata. Treated as a leper by her schoolmates, Stacey is not only exiled from the "cool" lunch table and subjected to vicious insults and accusations in the hallway, but she is also victimized by a "Hate Stacey" website -- but when her mom, Barbara (Lisa Vidal), complains to the principal, she is bluntly told that the school has no authority over any non-school activities, no matter how odious they may be. Driven to desperation by this onslaught of hostility, Vanessa becomes dangerously self-destructive, and it takes the combined efforts of her mother and her fellow "outcast" Emily (Shari Dyon Perry) to restore our heroine's pride and self-esteem...and, ultimately, to get her real priorities back on track. Director Tom McLoughlin, hitherto a specialist in horror films, invests this adaptation of Rachel Simmons' novel with just the right amount of foreboding and subliminal evil. First telecast by the Lifetime channel on April 4, 2005, Odd Girl Out obviously struck a nerve with viewers, if the incredible outpouring of audience response in both print and on the Internet is any indication. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Alexa Vega - Vanessa
Lisa Vidal - Barbara
Leah Pipes - Stacey
Alicia Morton - Tiffany
Rhoda Griffis - Denise

Spy Kids star Alexa Vega is drawn into the vicious world of petty lies and backstabbing rumors in this tale of betrayal among the high school set based on the New York Times bestseller -Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Quite a bit has changed in the last decade, and modern technology has opened up an entirely new realm of cruelty for catty high school girls looking to maintain their popular status. From malicious e-mails to slanderous websites, the possibilities for humiliation are virtually endless. When the most popular girl in school suddenly and unexpectedly falls out with the in-crowd, the revelation that her untouchable status was prompted by the betrayal of her former best friend leaves her reeling as she plots her revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide