Synopsis
You're only young once… is it over yet?
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
The Edge of Seventeen
2016 Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig
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Hailee Steinfeld Haley Lu Richardson Blake Jenner Woody Harrelson Kyra Sedgwick Hayden Szeto Alexander Calvert Eric Keenleyside Nesta Cooper Meredith Monroe Katie Stuart Lina Renna Christian Michael Cooper Ava Grace Cooper Laine MacNeil Jena Skodje Daniel Bacon Kavandeep Hayre Lyle Reginald Chris Shields Christian Lagasse Kirsten Robek Laura Ward
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James L. Brooks Cathy Schulman Oren Aviv Robert Simonds Richard Sakai Wang Zhonglei Julie Ansell Wang Zhongjun Brendan Ferguson Kelly Fremon Craig Jerry Ye Adam Fogelson Donald Tang Pete Corral
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Alternative Titles
Besties, 17 עד הסוף, כמעט שמונה עשרה, כמעט 18
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a movie about a melodramatic, jealous, self-hating, pretentious young girl who wants to die... can't believe my life has been plagiarized like this!
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as i left the theater a group of girls were all yelling "THAT WAS SO ME IN HIGH SCHOOL" and i thought it was just me that constantly wanted to die when i was a Teen but i guess a lot of girls relate to that and you know what?? that's really sad!! our culture has gotta start protecting teen girls instead of relentlessly mocking them
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me after watching the trailer:
"this seems sort of shitty."me after watching the film:
"someone needs to shame me." -
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you know, ever since we were little, i would get this feeling like... like i'm floating outside of my body, looking down at myself... and i hate what i see... how i'm acting, the way i sound. and i don't know how to change it. and i'm so scared that the feeling is never gonna go away.
this movie may not be objectively perfect, but it's exactly what i need.
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told my girlfriend Booksmart made me wanna rewatch Edge of Seventeen, so we did. and it's still wonderful! Booksmart might be a little bit better, but this movie is still firing on all cylinders. Hailee Steinfeld and Hayden Szeto are fucking phenomenal. Even in the little moments, Steinfeld reminds you why she got that Oscar nom.
I really appreciate how well this film starts in a place where you think it's gonna be very boilerplate but slowly starts to weave its way out of that hole. It's directed very functionally, but the performances and script carry it so so far. It wasn't until this second watch that I got to fully appreciate how cleanly they weave in details to explain…
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“The Edge of Seventeen” isn’t just a welcome relief, it’s a genuine lifesaver. Pick a god, any god, and thank them for this movie. More directly, thank Kelly Fremon Craig, whose directorial debut confronts millennial teens with the same authenticity and verve that helped “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” jumpstart a revolution when it crash-landed into the ’80s. But labeling this as a new version of an old phenomenon would be a terrible disservice to the wryly hilarious and unflinchingly honest film that Craig hath delivered unto us — like its hard-luck heroine, “The Edge of Seventeen” acts like a hand-me-down but thinks like a true original.
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