Cyberbully
Tags: dramatic

Plot synopsis:
Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment) is a teenage girl who is being raised by her single mother, Kris (Kelly Rowan), along with her younger brother, Eric (Robert Naylor), living in St. Louis, Missouri. She is close friends with two other girls, Samantha Caldone (Kay Panabaker) and Cheyenne Mortenson (Meaghan Rath). Earlier, Taylor made a seemingly innocuous comment to one of her classmates, Lindsay Fordyce (Nastassia Markiewicz), to which Lindsay took great offense.
She receives a computer for her seventeenth birthday from her mom. At first, Taylor is excited by the independence of going online without her mother always watching her. Meanwhile, her crush, Scott asks her to the dance, to which she says yes. Cheyenne is happy for her, but Samantha does not like Scott because she previously went out with his friend, who later dumped her. Taylor soon finds herself the victim of cyberbullying when she becomes a member of a social website named Cliquesters.
Things begin to go wrong when Taylor's brother, Eric, hacks into her account and posts a defamatory message about his sister, having been angry at her when she refused to let him use the laptop. Students at school write horrid comments about her and she becomes afraid to face her friends at school. Taylor also meets a guy named James online and thinks he is just being nice, but winds up spreading a rumor that Taylor slept with him and ended up giving him "the clap". Taylor gets pegged as a "slut" and "whore" as a result of the bullying. The abuse that Taylor receives from the hands of her schoolmates pushes her to a breaking point. Scott also tells Taylor that he cannot take her to the dance because of an excuse that obviously sounds made up (that his mom is forcing him to take another girl) and Cheyenne and Samantha begin to turn their backs on Taylor.
Overcome with depression, Taylor posts a video online saying that she can no longer live with herself. Samantha sees this and quickly goes to Taylor's house and finds her trying to commit suicide by overdosing with pills, but cannot get the cap off. Taylor is then sent to a hospital. Taylor's mom learns from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to prevent others from going through the same problem as her daughter. Taylor's mom recommends that she go to a support group and get help. Meanwhile, Samantha finds Scott at a cafe and insults him for leaving Taylor. Taylor finds that one of her classmates, Caleb is going through the same exact thing, only he is targeted for being gay. Taylor finds support in the group and deals with the bullying much better. She finds out that her best friend Samantha is the one who created the "James" profile and set Taylor up. Samantha feels guilty and becomes a victim of cyberbullying herself. Taylor finds out about this and tells her about her support group and eventually forgives Samantha, rekindling their friendship.
In the end, Taylor, Samantha, Cheyenne, Caleb, and Scott all stand up against Lindsay. Other classmates witnessing Taylor standing up to Lindsay realize how bullying is terrible, and antagonize Lindsay for her abuse. A law is then passed against cyberbullying.

Review: This movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, as it consists of abysmal acting, poor directing, and in my opinion, the worst drama script I have ever read in my entire life.
If I wanted to be informed about cuber bullying I would read an article about it.Now that the elephant in the room is out of the way its time or the movie's problems.
The idea that anybody has taken this film seriously seems like a sick joke.Cyberbully is not worth your time, unless you want a few cheap laughs..
Not a huge deal, but considering this movie was seemingly produced entirely by Canadian's it's a little telling.Overall the production quality is low, I'm kind of glad I missed this when it was originally aired on ABC Family, this is not a film I would be showing to a teen, it trivializes real cyber-bullying..
The movie might actually be brilliant as a black comedy - note the moment Taylor Hillridge tells her best friend that she "can't get the cap off," which is almost undoubtedly bound to be remembered as a staple in television comedy.
In fact, at points, the film is so ridiculous that it nearly seemed to have been made as a black comedy."Cyberbully" also has amateurish cinematography (half of its shots appearing to have been taken from some serialized drama) and a plain script with wooden dialogue, even though the acting performance of Emily Osment is worthy of praise.
This is completely inaccurate, as most social networking websites will let you delete comments, block profiles of people, and report spam comments."Cyberbully" has convincing acting and entertainment, as well as good messages, but is unrealistic and sometimes even unintentionally humorous at times; both far overshadow any redeeming qualities you will be able to find..
While I would agree with some other people's comments that the girl being bullied would likely be popular in real life, the movie as a whole makes a very important point, cyberbullying is a legitimate problem.
However it is Kelly Rowan, who plays Emily's mother who steals the show, paying a hilarious homage to the television series Quincy M.E. Cyberbully is a great film which I recommend every teenager and their parents to see..
They took a 5th grade look at bullying and completely exaggerated this issue.The only realistic characters were the people the mother talked to.
although there was slightly different circumstances (i/e the things the people were saying about Taylor), this film tugged on my heartstrings so much that i decided that (after 3 years) it was time to talk about what happened to me.
I went into Cyberbully thinking to myself "Oh look - an ABC family movie about the internet.
No doubt its going to be badly acted, badly written, hilariously misinformed with planned adverts every four or five minutes to hammer home the point of internet security and bullying, and, no doubt, it being an ABC family drama, after all, it will have no relevance to real life, it will shoehorn in seemingly random issues such as sexuality, and, perhaps most importantly for the demographic, it will, at no point, have any black people.
Osment's character very accurately shows the struggles most young teenagers go through of trying to play it cool and ignore their adversaries, all the while hurting and desperately wanting to be liked.
It so accurately captures the cocky attitude teenagers have of thinking they can handle tough situations, all the while slowly breaking down.The movie was even accurate down to the attitude of the school towards bullying, and how in many schools today, the "no bullying policy" does little, if nothing, to help students.I did find the ending to be unrealistic and cliché (let's face it- no cafeteria speeches like that actually occur in schools), but Osment's acting during the beginning and middle of the movie is brilliant enough to nearly make up for it.Overall, give this movie a go.
when watching this it was like watching me and i think that if you watch this movie it will change many people's life.
I see ABC Family has taken a point from the Lifetime Movie Network's oh-so-delicious- aged-gooey-bleu-cheese morality plays and produced Cyberbully, the tale of the anarchy that ensues when hormonal teeny-bopper girls play rumor mill amid the seedy beds of online chat rooms.
It tries to be a movie with a good message but it ignores the MAJOR points of cyberbullying and constantly shouts out the lie that it's always the internet that does it and never the people actually bullying them.
No one in this movie acts like a real person and the "bullying" is the tamest thing I've ever seen in my life.
The main character Taylor (Emily Osment), is one of the most unlikable protagonists I've ever seen in any movie, she's extremely annoying as well.
The recent teen suicides has shocked USA and many campaigns and stars have spoken again it.Emily Osment has come a long way from Hanna Montana's sidekick to this, she gave truly amazing Performance in the movie.
It shows the effects that name calling and vicious rumors can have on the mental state of a human being.It also gives great advice on how to deal with bullying and it also shows the different ways parents and adults may react to bullying.This movie should be part of the ALL school curriculum's, to teach kids and adults alike what bullying can truly do to a kid.
This movie touched me in so many ways, I loved Emily Osment, I loved Kay Panabaker, I thought they all did well, I think this would be a great film for everyone, One thing I didn't get was why Lindsay was always smiling.
Bullying has been going on for such a long time and I'm finally glad that a movie has come out to tell teens that ur not alone and that you have to be strong and stand up for yourself.
I understand that cyberbullying can be a problem, but this movie makes it look like a joke.
If the main character was intelligent and actually tried to stop what was happening but the bully was doing something like creating new accounts, then I might've been sympathetic towards her.
If someone who bullies online watches this they will probably say something like; "what a loser, this movie is so gay" rather than take a lesson from it.
At least ABC Family is making an honest and fair attempt to address an issue that needs to be addressed.Cyberbully focuses on a teenage girl named Taylor Hillbridge (Osment).
The quest isn't going so well, but a determined mom with a struggling teen isn't likely to give up any time soon.ABC Family hasn't necessarily made the best TV movies recently (can't forget - they made Mean Girls 2), but this one stands out for its message and its acting.
I really don't think it matters that the victim in this film is a pretty, blonde 17 year old girl who would apparently be popular in the "real world".
I also don't think the film needed to end with a victim of the bullying successfully committing suicide to get the seriousness of this subject over to people.
its usually people who aren't conventionally attractive whom are picked onnot pretty blonde's or boyish pretty boys.why does the mainstream entertainment industry always seem to simply slap reading glasses on a pretty boy or dress a cute girl awkwardly all while expecting the audienceparticularly bully victims to identify with the characters that are supposed to represent them.
It stars Emily Osment, Kay Panabaker, Kelly Rowan, Jon McLaren, Meaghan Rush and Natassia Markiewicz.This is a TV movie of some note, Cyberbully, as the title suggests, deals with the prevalent problem of on line bullying.
Story has Osment as Taylor Hillridge, she's your everyday high school teenager, she's pretty, has good friends and is getting interested in boys.
In real life people act a lot more like the people in this movie than they do in your everyday Hollywood production.Part 2: Short but powerful.I think most people think poorly of this film because the general people have a standard, which this movie does not abide by.
I did not feel it was over the top at all and have seen way more dramatic things in real life than in this movie.
part 4: The point.I think most people need to take their luxury Hollywood glasses off, and should turn their brain, and maybe more importantly, their hearts on if they want to watch this movie.
Most of the bullying done in this movie is more real than people expect.
Even if any of the bullying wasn't real, it wouldn't matter because the purpose of this movie was clearly to give out a good and clear messege, that Cyberbullying is bad, even though its just words being sad to other people, people have feelings and words can hurt them, and i think this movie could really inspire people being bullied on the internet, that they don't have to take bad things being said to them, but they can also take a stand and do something about it.
Also throughout the movie when Taylor is wanting to overdose, the music is sad and very emotional.The effect of what cyberbullying causes to people.
Cyberbully (or Cyberbu//y because it's Leet and therefore really cool and edgy and hip for people like me who wouldn't know a lolcat from nyan cat) is an amazing film that changed my life forever.
Lots of Canadian melodrama ensues, and lots of stuff happens that would never happen in a real American high school.This movie does not have your typical bullies (think Roger Klotz from Doug), but rather touches upon the dangers of gossip and having a bad online reputation, like that girl from Norway with the horrible voice that we've all seen on YouTube.
However, the movie did have a purpose and attempted to deliver a positive message about the realities of teen bullying, focusing mainly on the aspect of "cyberbullying" obviously.
Teen girl Taylor Hillridge gets a a laptop for her birthday and signs up on a social networking site and starts to get bullied.
I thought Cyberbully was brilliant and I think everyone should have to watch this because I actually didn't realize bullying was that bad until i watched cyberbully.I think Emily Osment and all the actors in this went way above standard they were brilliant at playing their part it was so realistic.This taught me that you should really talk to someone about being bullied,that you should face things inside of hiding hold your head up high,try to ignore comments and people that are being mean to you and don't try get back at people.There will always be help when you need it and don't try give your life away because there is other people who don't have a choice of living but everyone does if you don't hav an ilness like cancer..
This Film Is the best i am 14 years old and of course i use Facebook and twitter there are mean words that get thrown about like there nothing and they will not hurt the person, everyone knows teens have a bitch about other people online to their friends and think nothing of it, it might only be small stuff but if that person saw it, it would not be small to them.
The people who are leaving baaad reviews of this film obviously have no idea what it's like being cyber bullied!!!
The best compliment I know how to give Emily Osment is that she actually brings some life and emotion into an otherwise worthless script that reads like it was shot more as poor in-school propaganda (isn't it all) than a movie with actual entertainment or emotional value.
I was skeptical to watch this movie from the very start, but my friend convinced me that the film was great and had a really good message.
Not to mention the fact that about thirty seconds after Taylor makes an account, she gets a friend request from the movie's pathetic "love interest".
All you need to know about what happens next is that the most popular girl in Taylor's school is posting obnoxious things online about Taylor, tons of other people join in and bully her too, and Taylor is having an overly dramatic breakdown every other scene.
She and her best friend end up confronting the outrageously stereotypical "popular girl" that had been bullying Taylor online.
A teenage girl by the name of Taylor Hillridge gets a new laptop for her birthday and her brother "hacks" into it, creating a fake status update on this fictional social-networking site called Cliquesters where it portrays her as a slut and then she gets bullied for it in school and to top it off, some guy online named James lied to people that she gave him STDs. The premise itself doesn't sound THAT bad.
She also allows a friend request to some guy she doesn't know named James earlier in the film and guess what, the guy betrays her by lying to people that she gave him STDs. Is she seriously THAT hungry for boys that she's willing to do something like this?Samantha is just plain weird.
It was about as good as I had expected, which wasn't very good.First of all, our heroine is a seventeen-year-old girl named Taylor Hillridge (played by Osment) who doesn't exactly seem like the kind of person who'd be a victim of vicious bullying.
What a great lesson!In the end, this movie painted bullying and depression as something frivolous and trivial, instead of actual highlighting the importance of protecting teens from online harassment.
I know what I'm talking about.Anyone who takes the internet as seriously as the characters in this movie shouldn't be on it in the first place, a lot of people say.This movie isn't about cyberbullying.
Sure, it might hurt, but no normal human would try to kill themselves over it.Mind you, this movie tries to make "cyberbullying" look like the biggest problem since the Cuba crisis.
This video could have easily been a subverted educational video for the patriot act, Stay scared and sign away the freedom of others.=Spoiler alerts after this!= The biggest problems with this film was how the mother disregarded freedom of speech to create a law making it illegal to insult minors online at a point where her daughter had learned to finally learned to deal with a small group of bully girls.
So, Taylor, blessed with prettiness, caring parents, upper middle class wealth and good friends falls victim to being called such savage things on her social network page, words that would drive ANY 17 y/o to a suicide attempt.
Several reviews have laughed at the plot, claiming a thin, blond hair, blued eyed girl with friends and supportive family being bullied into attempted suicide is unbelievable and unrealistic.
This movie follows Taylor as she deals with being bullied online and is eventually pushed to her breaking point.
This movie shows just how bad cyberbullying is and how far it can push people.
I actually think that this movie should be shown in schools to show just how bad words can hurt..
I don't get why people say " This movie is unrealistic blah blah " When it is, they also say that why would someone this pretty get bullied?
There was no clarification on whether her statements about Scott were true, however.Now that I've gotten those quirks from other reviewers out, I'd like to give a review myself.I was not going to watch this movie, but when I saw Emily Osment casted for the main character, I decided to give it a try.
Throughout the entire film i was waiting for her to punch the leader of the bully girls in the face, which would actually solve the problem or at least make her feel empowered instead of pathetic.I made this IMDB account specifically to review this movie because I disliked it so much.
I understand the point the producers of this movie are trying to push across, that cyber bullying is real and is a problem.
However I think the way they try to portray this problem is completely out of the realm of possibility, and could have been portrayed in a different, more believable way.First: The main character(Taylor's) brother posts a fake status on her Clickster(this movie's Facebook imitation) page.
I think if the movie was made in a more realistic way, it would be even more unwatchable, so I think trying to raise awareness about cyber bullying through a movie isn't a good idea.Watch only if you want to point and laugh about how overly dramatic it is and how serious it takes itself..
WARNING MAY HAVE SPOILERS!To start off, reading some of the reviews it looks like people are not seeing the point to this movie.
This movie makes you want to make a difference, and as a person who has seen bullying, one definitely needs to be made..
but there are just too many flaws that make it impossible to do so.For one thing, the main character and victim of bullying, she is a blonde named Taylor, played by Emily Osment.
Reading some of these comments, some of the things that people don't understand about the film ARE explained in the movie, but vaguely.
I had to watch the movie a few times before I fully understood why certain characters did what they did (ex: Samantha making the fake profile, why Lindsay hates Taylor).
Many people have said that girls that look like her don't get bullied, well news flash, they do.
And I guess not enough people at Emily Osment's school knew her too well, because they immediately thought it was true.The first time she is bullied is by her brother, who says she's like a naughty girl.
Take "Odd Girl Out" for instance (a great movie, by the way).All in all, I thought "Cyberbully" was not as bad as most of the reviews suggest..