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''Barely Lethal'' is a 2015 American independent action comedy film directed by Kyle Newman and written by John D'Arco, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Sophie Turner, Jessica Alba, and Samuel L. Jackson. The film follows a teenage special ops agent (Steinfeld) yearning for a "normal" adolescence who fakes her own death and enrolls as an "exchange" student in a suburban American high school. She quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of being a teenager can be more difficult than international espionage. The film received an exclusive on-demand release by DirecTV Cinema on April 30, 2015 and a limited release in theaters by A24 Films and through video-on-demand on May 29, 2015. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. ==Plot== The orphans in the government-run Prescott Academy are taught practically since birth to become government agents. Their number one rule is "no attachments". Agent 83 (Hailee Steinfeld) has always been curious about the world outside the Academy, however. Despite her excellent work in the field, she has dreamt of a normal life. She brushes up on her teen culture through popular magazines and watching movies and TV shows like ''Mean Girls'', ''Bring It On'', and ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. Her mentor Hardman (Samuel L. Jackson) has always discouraged her and the other girls from becoming attached to anything. 83's skills have also made her rivals with 84 (Sophie Turner). Hardman assigns the girls to capture wanted arms dealer Victoria Knox (Jessica Alba). The agents head to Chechnya to apprehend her. 83 goes undercover as one of those captured and brought before Knox. She manages to latch herself and Knox onto an oncoming jet with Hardman on it. When they get high and far enough, 83 drops herself into a river while the other agents apprehend Knox. They find no sign of 83 and declare her MIA. 83 goes into hiding to start her new life as a regular teenager and goes through an exchange program to live with the Larson family under the name Megan Walsh. She is picked up by Mrs. Larson (Rachael Harris) and her children Liz (Dove Cameron) and Parker (Jason Ian Drucker). Parker instantly likes Megan but Liz is cold and distant. Megan picks a ridiculous outfit for her first day of school and is immediately laughed at. She's mocked by other students at her first assembly, leaving both Megan and Liz embarrassed. As Megan continues her new life as a high school student, she makes friends with a geeky kid named Roger (Thomas Mann), who has an interest in her, despite her attraction to Cash (Toby Sebastian). Megan finds out she's in a biology class with him and hacks the system to make him her lab partner, to the ire of two mean girls. As retaliation, the girls convince Megan that Cash loves girls with school spirit and suggest she try out for the position of school mascot. Since she is the only contender, Megan scores the position. During a game, a few kids from a rival school come and try to kidnap Megan as part of an annual tradition. She attacks them and the video of her doing this goes viral. It earns her some popularity, but also annoys Liz. Megan spends more time with Cash, to Roger's dismay. As she's walking home, she is apprehended by a Prescott analyst (Jaime King) and is brought back to Hardman. He is ready to have his minion Pedro (Steve-O) torture Megan under the assumption that she is working with enemies of Prescott. He injects her with a truth serum and realizes she is honest when she says she only wanted to enjoy a normal life outside the Academy. Pedro also sympathizes with Megan as she cries. Hardman lets her go but warns her that if she gets into trouble, they won't be there to bail her out. They dump her on the front porch of the Larson house to make Megan appear drunk. Megan gets invited to a big party at the home of the school's class clown Gooch (Gabriel Basso). Mrs. Larson encourages Megan to go and makes Liz join her. At the party, Megan continues to hang out with Cash, while Liz gets drunk with Gooch in his bathtub, learning that his name is really Bernard. To Megan's surprise, 84 is there, now going by Heather. Megan thinks Hardman sent Heather to shadow her, but she has her own plan brewing. She goes after Cash to annoy Megan. Megan eventually wins Cash's attention and gets asked by him to the homecoming dance. The next morning, Megan is later about to take the bus to school when she sees that Hardman is driving a bus and only passes through to warn Megan that Knox has escaped from Prescott. Liz drives Megan to school, but they are pursued by a masked assassin. Megan steers them away from danger and admits to Liz her secret. They crash in a junkyard while also getting the assassin to crash. Megan goes to investigate and smells what she recognizes to be Ke$ha perfume, meaning it was Heather that tried to murder them. Liz is in the hospital after the crash. Megan tells her she has to leave before anybody else gets hurt. Liz responds that Megan trying to abandon the family would be worse. The girls go to the homecoming dance. Megan realizes that Cash is a boring person and dumps him. She goes to apologize to Roger, but finds out that his date is Heather. She provokes Megan's rage and they fight. They spill punch on the mean girls, who then start to fight each other. Heather chases Megan into the hallway where they end up in the kitchen. Heather says she joined Knox for the chance to kill Megan herself. She also brags about making out with Cash and Roger. Liz sneaks up on Heather and stabs her in the leg with a corn dog stick, allowing Megan to knock Heather unconscious. Megan returns home to find that Knox and some goons have taken Parker and Mrs. Larson hostage. Megan fights the goons but Liz gets captured as well. Knox reveals that she was Agent 1 - the very first Prescott girl, but she left and turned against them. Hardman shows up with reinforcements to take out the goons and tranquilize Knox. Megan and Hardman embrace and Parker asks Hardman if he can join and he tells him to apply for the Prescott boys school. Using one of Prescott's helicopters, Megan finds Roger driving home with his father and stops them in the middle of the road. She tells Roger her true feelings for him and they kiss. Roger joins Megan, Liz and Gooch in the helicopter, despite Roger's father's (Rob Huebel) objections. In a mid-credits scene, Heather is in a car with a former minion of Knox. She stares at a photo of Megan on a screen and orders him to find out where she is going to college and her safety schools. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barely Lethal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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