The Boarding School Murders

Francesca, 'Frankie' leaves behind her foster home to join a very elite and exclusive Swiss Boarding School, when one of her classmates is murdered, she, as the outsider becomes the prime suspect, she has to prove her innocence. I foolishly paid to rent this film, because it sounded quite interesting, I should have waited, as it's likely to appear on TV some random afternoon. Unfortunately it isn't a particularly good movie, it has a fairly cheap and amateur feel to it, which is a shame as the story idea is a pretty good one. Credibility is the issue here, I didn't believe in the characters, the school setting or the identity of the killer. The pupils had life very easy at this school, apart from the odd murder, school life involved no studying. The acting, something of a mixed bag I would argue. 4/10.

Francesca "Frankie" Logan experienced a hardscrabble upbringing in foster homes, and she was once arrested for shoplifting and for assaulting a security guard in a shopping mall. But her outstanding intellect and motivation have led to her acceptance at a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland. The school is located near Lausanne in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. But the institution itself is rotten to the core with a student body composed of social snobs and a corrupt, mendacious administration. The prissy headmistress, Miss Jane Ainsworth, lets Frankie know immediately that insubordination will not be tolerated! Frankie acquires one friend, little Jacqueline Brenet, who serves as a confidante in this cruel institute that purports to train future leaders! The murder of one of the snotty students, Miss Tinsley Wellington, leads to a nefarious Inspector Clouseau-like figure, who interrogates the students and seeks to pin the blame on Frankie. This slow-burner is worth sitting through for an operatic climactic scene that unfolds in the office of the headmistress. No one ever cracks a book at this distinguished academy. But there is an ample supply of insubordination from both the students and the administration to place this school on a par with the current version of Harvard University.