K-12 (2019) on Netflix
Cry Baby is sent to K-12 Sleepaway School, a disturbing place hidden beneath a grandiose façade. Her best friend Angelita stands up for her when the other students bully her.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.5/104,458 votes
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Plot summary
Cry Baby rides a bus to K-12 Sleepaway School and is bullied by her schoolmates on the way. When the bus loses control, she and her best friend Angelita use supernatural abilities to levitate it and set it down outside the school. In class, a student who will not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance is taken away. Cry Baby lends a boy named Brandon an eraser, and his girlfriend Kelly threatens her. Cry Baby calls her mother for advice, but her mother is passed out drunk and does not answer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about K-12 (2019)
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- Melanie Martinez wrote and directed K-12 to accompany her second album, drawing on her own experiences of being bullied for the film's bullying scenes.
- Martinez cited visual artists Mark Ryden and Nicoletta Ceccoli, plus Jan Švankmajer's 1988 surrealist film Alice and pop surrealism, as inspiration for K-12's visuals.
