When Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), an outspoken new student, is harassed by the school’s football star (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and his clique, and gets no help from the principal (Marcia Gay Harden), Vivian-inspired by the riot-grrrl adolescence of her suburban-sedate mother (Poehler)-anonymously starts a zine and organizes bold actions to challenge the school’s male-supremacist ways. In this bright-toned and earnest teen drama, directed by Amy Poehler, a shy eleventh grader named Vivian (Hadley Robinson), in a conservative, jock-centric high school in Rockport, Oregon, has a quick political awakening.
