Breaking The Girls

Sara is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-year old working her way through her sophomore year at Browning College. Alex, her gorgeous and privileged classmate, takes Sara under her wing. As the two girls become closer, they become friends with benefits. Alex and Sara commiserate over their respective enemies and Alex half-jokingly suggests that they should kill off each other’s nemeses. Sara shrugs off the suggestion as a morbid joke, until someone turns up dead.

Breaking the Girl

Official: Breaking The Girl is a contemporary thriller akin to the film noir classic Strangers on a Train. When university student Sara (Bruckner) is slandered by a hostile classmate, she is befriended by the manipulative Alex (Zima) who proposes the perfect, untraceable crime – to kill each other’s arch enemies. When Alex actually goes through with it, Sara finds herself being framed for murder.

Alternate: Directed by Jamie Babbit, Brit Marling and Madeline Zima have landed the lead roles of Alex and Sara, a duo that commiserate over their enemies. Alex suggests that they should kill off each other’s nemeses, Sara shrugs it off as a morbid joke until someone turns up dead.

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[TIFF '12] IFC Is Going To Be ‘Breaking The Girls’

The Wrap reports that IFC Films has acquired from Myriad Pictures the U.S. distribution rights to director Jamie Babbit’s thriller, Breaking The Girls starring Madeline Zima (pictured above), Agnes Bruckner, and Shawn Ashmore.

Written by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner, the film was produced by Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico and Andrea Sperling. Peter Abrams and Robert Levy of Tapestry Films serve as executive producers. The film will have a limited theatrical in the U.S.

In the film “Sara is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-year old working her way through her sophomore year at Browning College. Alex, her gorgeous and privileged classmate, takes Sara under her wing. As the two girls become closer, they become friends with benefits. Alex and Sara commiserate over their respective enemies and Alex half-jokingly suggests that they should kill off each other’s nemeses. Sara shrugs off the suggestion as a morbid joke, until someone turns up dead.