Poison Ivy The Secret Society
Recently orphaned country girl Danielle “Daisy” Brooks leaves
her ranch and her boyfriend William to pursue her college degree, and transfers
to Berkshire College, elite New England private school haunted by the mysterious
death of a young college student, Alexis Baldwin. Her first week as a college
freshman makes a big impression, not only attracting the notice of the dean’s
handsome son Blake, but also singling her out for a prestigious internship in
Washington D.C. Blake quickly becomes infatuated with Daisy and asks her out on
a date, much to the disapproval of his father, Professor Andrew Graves.
Daisy’s arrival also piques the interest of the Ivy Society, a
close-knit secretive sisterhood to whom the lucrative scholarship is traditionally
granted to. The head of the Ivies, an attractive and ambitious student named
Azalea Berges with a long history of truancy and illicit affairs with teachers,
breaks into Blake’s home, offering sexual favors in exchange for his help in
boosting her chances with the internship. Upon learning that one of the
considered candidates is Daisy, she invites her to join the Ivies. Daisy
initially refuses, preferring to continue her studies and consummate her
relationship with Blake. But when an error in her tuition payments threatens to
erase her name from the college system, she is left with no choice but to
agree. Late one night, she and two other students take part in an initiation
ritual at the Ivy household. Pledging allegiance to the sisterhood, they drink from
drugged ceremonial wine, are stripped naked and tattooed with the Ivy insignia.
At first, Azalea and the Ivies seem willing to help Daisy with anything
she needs, outfitting her with a fashionable new wardrobe, solving her financial
issues and introducing her to a popular new lifestyle. But Daisy’s new social
status distances her from her roommate Magenta Hart, still mourning the death
of her friend Alexis Baldwin. She is also awarded a place in the scholarship by
Dean Graves, but breaks up with Blake for ignoring her after they slept together.
Distracted by his relationship with Daisy, Blake fails to honor his agreement
with Azalea. Having recorded Blake and Daisy’s first night of lovemaking in
secret, she and the Ivy sisters leak the video onto the Internet and set fire
to Blake’s sports car. With her reputation destroyed, Daisy soon gets wind of the
Ivies’ true nature as a power-hungry group of sirens who manipulate men to
their advantage and employ blackmail and seduction to achieve their aims,
wishing to use the government internship to gain a political foothold in
society. She also learns that Alexis Baldwin’s death was not an accident, and
is one of a large history of killings that have been covered up by the dean.
Azalea is shocked when Magenta Hart takes her place in the list
of candidates applying for the scholarship, and furious at Blake’s deceit,
declares war on the Graves family. She threatens to destroy William’s land deed
when Daisy attempts to extract herself from the clique, and tasks her with a
test of loyalty. Dressed in provocative lingerie, Daisy breaks into the administration
building to infiltrate Professor Graves’s office, but upon learning she is to
have sex with him, baulks at the suggestion and breaks rank. Having failed to
make Daisy one of her own, Azalea seduces Graves herself, impaling his head on
a sharp ornament during their coital encounter and framing Daisy for the
killing.
A police investigation is launched following Graves’s murder,
and Daisy becomes the prime suspect due to her extensive interaction with the
Graves family. Facing custody, Daisy makes amends with Blake and upon
discovering that the Ivies have been manipulating her all along, visits Azalea’s
home to seek solace. Through desperate pleas of forgiveness, she manages to get
Azalea to admit her murderous behavior and the attempt to set her up.
Discovering that the confession has been recorded, Azalea attacks Daisy in a
rage with a sword, and a fight ensues in the Ivy swimming pool. Daisy pretends
to drown, and then overpowers Azalea from behind knocks her head on the pool
steps. Having admitted her part in the cover-up, Dean Graves leads the police
to the scene, where Daisy submits the recording proving her innocence and an
unconscious Azalea is taken into custody.
Following the ordeal, Daisy is given the rest of the semester
off. With four years of a prestigious scholarship ahead, she leaves Berkshire
campus, returning to her farm in Iowa to resume her relationship with Will for
the summer. As the two reunite, her Ivy tattoo is shown to now depict a Daisy.
Degrassi: The Next Generation headliner Miriam McDonald takes
the lead for this installment of the Poison Ivy series concerning a college
freshman who joins a secret society of ambitious, ruthless temptresses.
Danielle “Daisy” Brooks hasn’t even been at Berkshire College for a week, and
she’s already making a big impression; not only has the dean’s son taken notice
of the beautiful college freshman, but she’s also managed to land a lucrative
scholarship in addition to receiving an invitation to join an exclusive campus society
known as The Ivies. At first the former country girl assumes that The Ivies are
something akin to a sorority, though it isn’t long before she starts to get
wind of their true nature. The Ivies are a power-hungry group of sirens who
aren’t above using blackmail and seduction to get what they want – and they
aren’t above turning on one of their own. Once you’ve joined their ranks,
getting out of The Ivies can really be murder. Daisy thought she was coming to
college to learn, and her first lesson is a crash course in survival that few
who came before have managed to pass.
After a mysterious death of a young college student occurs late
one night at a prestigious New England college, Danielle “Daisy” Brooks nevertheless
decides to escape her small town life and transfer herself to this prominent school.
This naïve country girl is determined to start a new life leaving behind a two-year
relationship and the ghosts of her parents who died nearly three years ago.
Daisy knows that she must break away from her past in order to move on and find
out what she’s ultimately made of.
Danielle “Daisy” Brooks is an orphan who leaves her ranch and
her boyfriend to pursue her school degree. She is “tapped” by the Ivy Society
because the leader of the Ivy Society wants internship that Daisy is in line
for. Later she finds out that they have a killing history that was covered up
by the dean, who is also an Ivy. The girls attempt to make Daisy one of them
fully, but they fail. She finally takes them down by taping the leader (Azalea)
admitting to her murderous behavior and her attempt to set up Daisy. A fight
ensues in the pool, where Daisy pretends to drown and then overpowers Azalea
once Azalea thinks she has won.
Thirteen
13-year-old Tracy Freeland begins her school year as a smart and
sweet honor student at a middle school in Los Angeles. Her divorced mother
Melanie is a recovering alcoholic, who struggles to support Tracy and her older
brother Mason by working as a hairdresser. Tracy feels ignored by her mother,
who is too busy with her fellow ex-addict boyfriend Brady to address Tracy’s
increasing depression. After being teased for her “Cabbage Patch” clothes,
Tracy decides to shed her ‘little girl’ image and gets her mother to purchase trendier
clothes.
When Tracy wears one of her new outfits to school, she is
complimented by Evie Zamora, one of the most popular girls at school. Evie
invites Tracy to go shopping on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood but gives her a
fake phone number as a prank. Nevertheless, Tracy definitely shows up on
Melrose Avenue and meets up with Evie and her friend Astrid. Tracy is uncomfortable
with the two shoplifting and excuses herself to sit outside the store on a
bench.
When a distracted rich woman sits next to Tracy, Tracy takes the
chance to steal the woman’s wallet, which impresses Evie and Astrid. The three
go on a shopping spree with the stolen money and Tracey and Evie become fast
friends. Evie introduces Tracy to her world of sex, drugs, and criminal
activity, much to Tracy’s delight. When Evie tells Melanie that her legal
guardian cousin Brooke sent her an email, about going to a convention in
Bakersfield for two weeks, she temporarily moves into the Freeland household
and discovers that Tracy regularly cuts herself to cope with stress. The two
promise to stay friends forever and continue with their self-destructive exploits.
Although Melanie is concerned about the change in Tracy’s behavior and worries
about the extent of Evie’s influence, she cannot find a way to intervene.
Melanie attempts to send Evie home but Evie claims her guardian’s boyfriend is
physically abusive. A torn Melanie reluctantly agrees to let her stay. As Tracy
and Evie become closer, Tracy shuts Melanie further out of her life.
Evie and Tracy get increasingly out of control, each egging the
other on. The pair attempt to seduce Tracy’s neighbor Luke, a lifeguard in his
early twenties, and ditch a family movie night to get high on the streets.
Mason is shocked when he bumps into Tracy wearing sexualized clothing,
including thong underwear, but Tracy dismisses his concerns. Later on, the
girls take turns inhaling from a can of gas duster for computers for fun and
become so intoxicated that they hit each other, accidentally drawing blood.
Melanie attempts to break the girl’s friendship by sending Tracy
to live with her father but he refuses. Meanwhile, Melanie goes over to Brooke’s
house, with Tracy and Evie, to find out what is going on, because she’s been
calling Brooke for two weeks. They find that Brooke was hiding because of bad
plastic surgery she received. Evie asks Melanie to formally adopt her but
Melanie refuses. Tracy meekly supports her mother’s decision. Angry and hurt, a
tearful Evie storms off. At school, Evie turns all her friends against Tracy and,
depressed, Tracy slowly begins to realize the negative side effects of her
lifestyle when she is told she might have to repeat the seventh grade. To her
surprise, Brady finds her walking home from school and takes her home where
Melanie, Evie, and Brooke are sitting quietly in the living room waiting for
her.
Brooke confronts Tracy about her drug use and stealing, having
been convinced that Tracy was the bad influence by Evie. Outraged, Tracy
insists that Evie was the instigator to everything, but the skeptic Brooke
refuses to listen and announces that she is moving Evie to Ojai to keep her
away from Tracy. Melanie defends Tracy’s innocence but then Brooke pulls Tracy’s
sleeve up to show Melanie Tracy’s self-harm scars, showing that Tracy was
troubled long before she ever met Evie. After a screaming match, Brooke and Evie
leave. Tracy weeps in Melanie’s arms and attempts to fight against her mother’s
love, but Melanie embraces her and insists that she loves Tracy regardless.
Tracy tearfully pleads with Melanie to let her go, with no success. The two
fall asleep on Tracy’s bed. The last scene shows a dream sequence of Tracy
spinning alone and screaming on a park merry-go-round during the daytime.
A thirteen-year-old’s relationship with her mother is put to the
test as she discovers drugs, sex and petty crime in the company of her cool but
troubled best friend. At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight
A-student if not a little naïve (it seems… she smokes and she cuts to alleviate
the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom’s
boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl
in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like
stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and
her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new
tensions between her and her mother – as well as, teachers and old friends.
