Naughty

Naughty centers on a high-spirited young woman, played by Pauline Garon, whose refusal to adhere to the suffocating social etiquette of her era lands her in a finishing school designed to break her will. Instead of conforming, she turns the institution upside down with a series of increasingly frantic escapades. Her rebellion isn't political; it's purely temperamental. Along the way, she becomes entangled with a straight-laced romantic interest, played by John Harron, and a cast of bumbling supporting characters, including Walter Hiers, who provide the necessary slapstick friction. The film tracks her journey from a social pariah to a woman who manages to find a middle ground between her chaotic nature and the expectations of her class, though the resolution feels more like a surrender than a victory.