“Teenagers, you might have heard, can be a bit of a handful.
“Feed them into the Hollywood-movie machine, though, and their problems usually get solved—broken friendships are healed, potential romances are consummated, important life lessons are learned.
“But the director Kelly Fremon Craig’s debut film The Edge of Seventeen feints away from every adolescent cliché to create something far more wholly realized.
“The result is a story of young adulthood that isn’t afraid to be abrasive and emotionally confusing, while also making space for rare instances of vulnerability and tenderness.
The Edge of Seventeen is a sharp portrait of a 17-year-old roiled by hormones and emotions.
“Craig is candid about what a nightmare her protagonist Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) can be.”
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