The Moth Diaries

Director: Mary Harron
Writer: Rachel Klein
Cast: Scott Speedman, Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon, Valerie Tian
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2012
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Synopsis: At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark rumors, suspicions, and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, fantasy and reality mingle. What is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fueled by the anxieties, lusts, and fears of adolescence. [Synopsis courtesy of Bloody Disgusting]

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