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Do Revenge is a 2022 American teen black comedy film directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Celeste Ballard. It stars Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Austin Abrams, Talia Ryder, Rish Shah, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and it is loosely inspired by Patricia Highsmith's novel Strangers on a Train and Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation of it (1951). It was released on Netflix on September 16, 2022, and received generally positive reviews from critics.

Robinson pays homage to several 1990s high school films and other teen classics such as Heathers (1989), Jawbreaker (1999), and Mean Girls (2004).

Drea is a popular student attending Rosehill Country Day High School, an elite private school in Miami, on a scholarship. A "conniving, selfish sociopath" who uses people to get what she wants, Drea later becomes a social outcast after an intimate video she sent to her equally popular boyfriend, Max, is leaked online. Max claims he was hacked, but Drea blames Max for the video's release and punches him in the face, ultimately leading to their break up, all of Drea's friends to abandon her, and destroying her reputation. As a result, the headmaster places her on behavioral probation and warns that if she has anymore problems with Max, she will remove her scholarship and expel Drea from Rosehill.

That summer, Drea works at a tennis camp where she meets Eleanor, a shy tomboy from a wealthy background who is transferring to Rosehill in September. Eleanor tells Drea about also becoming an outcast when a false rumor spread that she forcibly kissed Carissa, another Rosehill student, at a summer camp years earlier.

Upon seeing their tormentors thrive while they suffer in silence, Drea and Eleanor realize they will never get justice on their own and plan to exact revenge on each other's enemy: Drea on Carissa and Eleanor on Max. After a makeover, Eleanor slowly infiltrates Drea's old clique of popular students, while Drea tries to get close to Carissa by working at the school farm, also befriending Russ, a slightly introvert student and Carissa's friend.

Eleanor is invited to a party thrown by Max, where she discovers he is cheating on his new girlfriend, Tara – Drea's former best friend. Drea steals Carissa's keys to the farm's locked greenhouse, finding the marijuana plants and magic mushrooms that Carissa has been growing in secret and plot to drug everyone at the school's Senior Ring Ceremony.

During the Senior Ring Ceremony, Drea places the drugs from the greenhouse in the dinner so Eleanor can steal Max's phone to obtain evidence of his cheating ways and find Drea's leaked video. She anonymously tips off the headmaster about the greenhouse, getting Carissa expelled and sent to rehab. While searching through Max's texts messages, Drea and Eleanor find photos and messages from other girls at school stretching back years.

At the school's Valentine's Day assembly, Eleanor leaks Max's texts to the entire student body, but Max and Tara then pretend to be a polyamorous couple, which in turn becomes the school's latest trend. Drea is rejected from Yale, due to her declining grades and Max publishing a fabricated story about his and Drea's relationship (most likely containing false allegations about being the helpless victim of Drea assaulting him for supposedly leaking her video or lies about Drea being physically abusive towards him). Spiraling emotionally, she concocts a new plan to destroy all her popular former friends, in revenge for not helping when her video was leaked and get Max to admit that he leaked her video via, through video recording, at the upcoming Admissions Party, which can only be attended by those accepted by Ivy League schools.

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