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Certification
| MPAA | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic issues and language |
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Sex & Nudity
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- While Vanessa dresses for a party, her mother tells her that her skirt is too short; it's an above-the-knee miniskirt, but nothing overly revealing is shown.
- Vanessa is accused of being a "skank".
- Vanessa's gut hangs out in a crude animated video of her rapidly gaining weight that her tormentors made.
- Sexually explicit chat messages are briefly seen on-screen, though none are really above PG-13.
- There is no sex, but the teenagers do talk about sex and going to various "bases" with other guys. Vanessa tells her friend Stacey about how she went to first and second base with a former boyfriend, and a little bit of third base (although the meanings of those terms are never discussed.) Later, while talking about Vanessa, one of the mean girls says, "She's barely in a bra, and already, guys are unhooking it."
- Vanessa is accused of flirting with a boy at school and being slutty. At one point, a guy passes her in the hallway and says "Slut at work!"
- Vanessa is examining her body in her bathroom mirror at home, and she's wearing only a bra and underwear. Nothing other than her chest above the bra is shown.
Violence & Gore
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- Vanessa's lifeless body is seen on the bathroom floor; she is later revived by paramedics.
- When discussing Vanessa's suicide attempt, unnamed classmates make remarks such as, "I heard she slit her wrists" and "used a gun".
Profanity
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- A group of girls create a bizarre rap about Vanessa, which uses terms like "slut", "dumbass bitch" and "head up her butt". They get a loudspeaker from somewhere and play music as they sing this out in a public restaurant.
- Uses of lesser expletives, including "skank", "fat" and "hobbit".
- The word "horny", as well as some other sexual words including "whore", "slut" and "sexy" are seen typed on-screen briefly in chatroom messages and print-outs.
- Uses of "geek", "porky/porker", "wuss", "nerd", "ugly".
- Cinemax content advisory for reruns of this movie: rated PG-13 for violence (V), adult language (AL), and adult content (AC).
- Terms such as "whore" and "slut" are used more than once. We also hear "bitch," "pissed off," "hell," "dumb ass," and "crap". Many of these derogatory terms are used extremely harshly to describe young teenagers by their peers.
- A teenage boy calls two girls "lesbos" after they are seen greeting each other with a hug. This may be considered offensive to some.
- The term "PMS" is used to describe a teenage girl's nasty attitude.
- At one point, one of the nicer girls consoles Vanessa about her now nasty friends and says that her class reenacted "Moby Dick" with Nikki, the head nasty girl, playing the title role. The girl jokes, "We needed someone to stick a harpoon in her ass".
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Vanessa takes a pill overdose, and when the mean girls at school hear about it, one of them jokes, "Oh my gosh, she's a druggie too?"
- A father teaches his young son (who looks to be about 9 years old) about how men deal with confrontations amongst one another. The dad explains that while girls tend to be brutal and hold grudges, men just smack each other and get it over with, then go out for a beer together.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- An unnamed boy arrives at Vanessa's house during her suicide attempt. For some reason he films that ambulance taking her away, an excited look in his eyes; the video later surfaces on social media.
- Vanessa is shown to partake in some verbal bullying herself, joking that Nikki has a fat ass as she tries to sit with her friends at the "cool table", snickering when Nikki and Tiffany call Emily a "hobbit" and a "geek", and mocking other girls behind their backs.
- At one point, Vanessa finally turns on Stacey and dishes out multiple comebacks, insults and rude comments in front of the whole school, including calling Stacey a "flesh-eating virus". Stacey is visibly upset, fleeing the school as she begins to cry, although in the context of the story, she sort of deserves it.
- Nikki is implied to be mentally disturbed. We see her obsessively bullying Vanessa to the point where it comes off as ridiculous, sneaking photos of her while she eats, desperately getting her to shoplift to show loyalty to Stacey, and creating a hate website and multiple animated videos.
- The bullying among the teens in this movie is very intense. The "mean girls" shamelessly gang up on Vanessa, saying cruel things to and about her, editing photos and videos of her, creating a hate website about her, and even stalking her in the school restroom.
- During gym class, Nikki gets in Vanessa's face and calls her a wuss, a whore, and a slut. This causes Vanessa to run off the field in tears.
- After overhearing the mean girls talking about how "porky" she has been getting, Vanessa locks herself in her bathroom at home and examines her stomach in the mirror. Then she takes a pair of scissors and starts chopping her hair off. However, the tone of the scene, set to the music, is very dark and leads you to believe she might do something else. It can be intense to watch.
- Two of the mean girls, Nikki and Tiffany, make up a bad song about Vanessa and sing it off school grounds (they are never caught by an adult). The lyrics are catty and cruel (see the Profanity section for them).
- Vanessa is invited to a party that doesn't exist. When she finds out, she gets so upset, she starts crying and has an emotional breakdown when she gets home.
- The intensity of "online bullying" is shown in detail. Some undisclosed sources even create an "I Hate Vanessa" website, where they post embarrassing pictures of her and call her derogatory names.
Spoilers
Profanity
- An acidically cruel song is made up about Vanessa by two of the nastiest girls. The lyrics, sung proudly and loudly in the school cafeteria with crude expressions, are 'Nessa was a nice girl, now she's a slut. A dumb-ass bitch with her head up her butt. Hits on Stacey's boy 'cuz she thinks she's all that. Beats up her best friend, quick as a rat. Used to brag straight A's, now it don't matter, 'cuz we're Stacey's crew, and we're comin' hard at her!"
- Later in the film, after Vanessa ends up in the hospital after being pushed to drastic measures by her peers' cruelty, some of the kids unbelievably send taunting messages to her computer making fun of her near death. One of her kids calls Vanessa a "crazy bitch", another a "psycho ho". Vanessa never sees these awful messages, but her mother does and reports them to the principal.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Vanessa has a near-death experience after the bullying at school goes too far. She swallows a bottle of pills, and her mother finds her face-down on the bathroom floor. She is rushed to the emergency room and ends up being okay, but she has to remain in the hospital for a few days.
- Vanessa receives some very cruel instant messages on the computer, where certain classmates are calling her names such as "crazy bitch" and "psycho ho." They also reference her suicide attempt by saying things like "Too bad you can't finish what you started." Vanessa doesn't read these because she is in the hospital at the time, but her mother sees them and prints them for the school principal to read.
