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The Edge of Seventeen

2016 Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig

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.

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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Review by ellie ★★★★★ 4

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!
Review by brat pitt ★★★★

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
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 31

me after watching the trailer:
"this seems sort of shitty."

me after watching the film:
"someone needs to shame me."
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 11

“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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Review by Lucy ★★★ 3

true grit girl really was lowkey in love with her best friend huh
Review by ellie ★★★★★ 1

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.

Recent reviews

Review by Jesse Ortega ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I often understand when people talk about having movies that speak personally to them because, for one reason or another, Hollywood just hasn't gotten around to making films for that particular audience yet. What I mean is, say, young black teenagers, normally, don't get to star in their own major motion picture. That's obviously starting to change now. which is for the better, but it wasn't the case for quite a while. This can be the case for any demographic. I'm just using black teenagers as an example to prove my point. The film industry is improving in that regard as, now, there's a lot more variety in casting lead roles than at any point in the past. There's still…
Review by Daniel PG Simpson ★★★

I tend to be suspicious of coming of age films. We've had some great ones lately, like Boyhood and Lady Bird, but the beginning of the decade saw a whole bunch of mediocre coming of age movies that were uninteresting and felt totally insincere. This is largely why I skipped The Edge of Seventeen, even when it became something of a hit with critics. Finally catching up with it now, I can definitely see the film's charm, but I also think it falls short of all it could have been. Starting with the good, The Edge of Seventeen is very funny. I was surprised by just how much this made me life. Within the first two minutes in fact there…
Review by jade ★★★★★

this movie is 1 hour 40 minutes long and i was crying for the last 1 hour 20 minutes of it
Review by becdunn ★★

Cannot explain why I could not stand this movie
Review by Jamie ★★★★

when nadine gave that speech about how she hated herself i really felt THAT
Review by McStrizz ★★★★

Heartfelt teen dramedies seem to be the only form of entertainment I can cope with amid these final days before the Rapture, and I enjoyed this one quite a lot.
Review by StephMonty ★★★★

A cute coming of age movie. They are always so full of heart.
Review by sophia ★★★★

It’s a rewatch painfully relatable coming of age movies kind of night
Review by Hayley ★★★★★

add nadine to the list of characters i have been told i remind people of