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Films about school bullying, involving one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act aggressively toward their victim. Bullying can be verbal or physical.
The topic of bullying has entered the public discourse in quite a dramatic way over the past decade, and for good reason. According to stopbullying.gov, this abusive behavior from peers is a pervas.
The film documents the lives of several public-school students and their families in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma during the 2009-10 school year. There is a particular focus on two students who are regularly bullied, one student who has been incarcerated after brandishing a gun on a school bus in response to being bullied, and the families of two boys who were victims of ...
A Girl Like Her is an American pseudo-documentary drama film directed by Amy S. Weber. The film stars Lexi Ainsworth as Jessica Burns, a 16-year-old bullied high school girl who attempts suicide, and Hunter King as Avery Keller, a former friend who has been relentlessly bullying Jessica for months.
The movie does a good job of working in most of the hot-button issues related to this topic, including the anonymity that exists online, the legal loopholes that enable cyberbullying, the social pressure on teens to partake in digital relationships, and the emotional devastation that bullying inflicts on its victims and their families." [2]
Films about bullying, the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception (by the bully or by others) of an imbalance of physical or social power.
Lucas Blye is a 14-year-old high school student in suburban Chicago. He becomes acquainted with Maggie, an attractive older girl who has just moved to town, on one of his entomological quests. Becoming friends, Maggie spends time with him during the summer until school begins.
Tim, a 16-year-old timid yet brilliant student (played by Antoine Olivier Pilon), has been suffering from bullying in school and seemingly non-stopping intimidation and menace for the last 5 years by some of his schoolmates and particularly at the hands of the arch-bully in his school Jeff Roy (played by Lou-Pascal Tremblay). Tim who lives with ...