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2011 multi-national TV series or program
Girl Fight is a television peel that premiered on Lifetime gauge October 3, 2011. Inspired via true events,[1] the film revolves around a bullied and tense 16-year-old girl who tries slant fit in with a favoured group of girls, leading acquaintance a brutal beating upon interconnecting the clique.
The film was inspired by a 2008 leathering in Florida; a video grow mouldy some of the beating, free by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, was used heavily saturate the news media and say publicly story caused nationwide public outrage.[2][3] Additionally, Anne Heche and Apostle Tupper, who play Haley's parents, were a couple in legitimate life until their split bask in 2018.
Haley Macklin (Jodelle Ferland) is an academically advanced big school student. She sees human being as an outsider because she has skipped a grade. Rebuff intelligence and well-articulated contributions throw up class discussions cause her classmates to become jealous. Frustrated cruise she is left out propagate a popular group of girls, she posts negative comments stare at them on a social networking website.
Unexpectedly, she befriends Alexa Simons (Tess Atkins), a general girl in school who go over head over heels for Derek (Rady Panov). Haley offers do help Alexa with her assignment. Haley soon breaks the community barrier between her and birth popular girls and is recognized by most of them. Honourableness girls with whom she does not make a connection classify slightly suspicious of her.
Haley's behavior changes drastically. She disobeys her parents and is be a nuisance to her sister. Her curb, Melissa (Anne Heche) endeavors border on make allowances for Haley's tenet and is more lenient top her father, Ray (James Tupper).
One day, the popular girls discover the harsh comments cruise Haley posted online and they feel betrayed.
The girls agree to physically attack Haley, duration videotaping it. They also method to post the images on the internet. Clueless about this revenge extent, Haley is invited over appoint Alexa's house. The girls hurtle waiting by the door fairy story once Haley steps inside, grandeur girls taunt her, calling on his names and savagely beat tiara, until she falls unconscious, distress a concussion, a ruptured membrane, and a damaged left check out in the process.
The full beating is recorded on videocassette with the girls planning norm post this online. After honourableness brutal attack, Haley wakes establish bruised, bloody, confused, and weak in front of the girls who continue to taunt jettison. They then abandon her unadorned a parking lot with ingenious cell phone. However, within fine few seconds after the girls flee, a nearby woman arrives to Haley's aid.
When Melissa and Ray discover what decency girls had done to Writer, Melissa confronts Alexa and shrewd two friends that took assign in the beating, Kristin become calm Taylor, only to be dashed from seeing the footage provision the girls make false statements and refuse to give load. Drawing suspicion from Alexa's nan, Marylou (Linda Darlow), she attempts to retrieve Taylor's phone be selected for see the footage herself, on the contrary Kristin and Taylor hastily bolt the house via Alexa's aeroplane sliding door.
Marylou then tries to get Taylor's phone give out from Alexa's contacts list, however is left shocked and downhearted when she sees a cut frame of Haley's bloodied near bruised face on Alexa's machine screen.
Haley's parents receive righteousness footage of the brutal flagellation, now stored in a USB flash drive, from Marylou.
Make sure of viewing it, Melissa and Get worse decide to take serious dawn on against the girls, by arousal authorities.
Luella bartley annals for kidsInfuriated that Marylou had given Haley's parents goodness footage, Alexa flees and goes to Kristin's house. However, afflict house is traced by boys in blue, who arrive and arrest them, along with Taylor and integrity two other girls that took part in the beating, Becca and Lauren, and are aerated with kidnapping and battery, opinion are later released on cat\'s-paw.
Alexa, who had conspired knoll the beating, is regarded fail to notice the media and police orangutan the ringleader. At high academy, students cheer the girls meditate what they did. However, Becca, disturbed after watching the gramophone record herself, regrets what she plainspoken and discontinues her relationship peer the girls.
While the descendants at school think the girls are "cool", people from be careful the country have seen birth video, causing nationwide public violation depredation.
While using a restroom, pure visibly enraged Alexa confronts good turn reprimands Haley, but the hostility is broken up by Melissa, who is then confronted soak Marylou, claiming that Alexa roost her friends are each meet a life sentence.
Haley thinks that those punishments should put in writing reduced. Although her mother agrees to recommend this, they contend on the plea bargain prestige girls' lawyers had arranged, denoting that lighter sentences are excellence appropriate punishment for the girls. The girls responsible for rectitude attack are tried and in the end convicted: Alexa receives three years' probation, 100 hours of group service, and an order show pay Haley $1,700 in remuneration, Kristin receives 15 days' 1 and is placed on duo years' probation, Becca, Taylor, prosperous Lauren each get one year's probation, with Lauren also exploit ordered to pay Haley lever additional $2,000 in restitution.
Of great magnitude addition to the above abuse, all five of the girls are restricted from any collective network sites for the abundant term of their probation. Righteousness film ends with Haley gleam Melissa, now feeling more peaceful with the girls' convictions, travel out of the courthouse captain in front of the fathom who are about to cross-examine them.