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The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

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Release Date	:	2016-11-18
Runtime	:	104 min.
Genres	:	Comedy, Drama
Production Company	:	Gracie Films, STX Entertainment
Casts	:	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
Plot Keywords	:	friendship , high school , loneliness , teen angst , coming of age , teenage girl , best friend , dating , teenager , woman director

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

When you watch a teen movie like The Edge of Seventeen you'll usually find yourself siding with either parent in the family like Nadine and her brother do. This time it's the mum who she's constantly at odds with, and the dad who steps in and saves the day. He's the cool one, the one who understands her the most, and when her voice-over warns that "tragedy soon struck", we're pretty sure that the movie is gearing up to kill him off. But for a teenager like Nadine that tragedy just might be her insane, out-of-control hairdo and a sprouting monobrow. The resulting punishment of such a fashion faux pas is of course social exclusion, and for a high-schooler those are live-or-die stakes. And then for good measure, her dad dies anyway, and sends her life into a miserable spiral.

In most of these young adult stories that alone would be a good enough reason for Nadine to retreat into her shell and start to hate the whole world, and therefore legitimatise all the jaded cynicism and self- pity she radiates with every furious move. But Kelly Fremon Craig doesn't orient us with a timeline, and that provides the opportunity for a wicked takedown of her pity party; Nadine springs the 'my dad just died' to avoid handing in homework, only for Mr Bruner to reveal it is now five years after the fact. The joke effectively pulls the rug from under our feet, and suddenly we're all recalculating, and shifting all those expectations that the genre has instilled into us year after year.

The seemingly plucky Nadine is played by Hailee Steinfeld, who broke out with True Grit, a role where she was required to babysit Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. If you've watched that you'll recognise traces of her ability to scold and talk to down to anyone in her radius, and here it is laced with teenager bitterness and envy - Nadine has single-handedly claimed misanthropy for herself, and anyone who tries to help or improve her (namely her brother and mother) is sent packing. Steinfeld does well with the overlapping, self-important dialogue, but praise must also go to the wardrobe departments, who dress her in puffy retro striped jackets and velcro-laced sneakers, so she's a hipsterish standout amongst the "mouth-breathing" crowd. The bright blues and reds make her pop against the dull grey photography; she's an old soul, and dresses not merely as a facet of self-expression, but as rebellion.

The movie takes everything we know about cinematic teenagers and flips them around. We're still learning. For so long the status quo was that you were a child, and then an adult, the hard times meaning that no one had any time to grow and develop and mope about growing and developing. Then James Dean opened up his heart and soul, and John Hughes and The Breakfast Club introduced us to the rest of the gang and their own worries and ambitions. The teen movie has almost always been rigidly fixated on the plucky protagonist's point-of-view, celebrating their coming-of-age and phoenix rebirth from loserville. They can do no wrong, and everyone else is there to pat them on the back and boost them up.

The Edge of Seventeen isn't just afraid to call Nadine out on her behaviour, it's also mature enough to show her the people who are hurt from these actions. When she taunts her best friend and predicts that she'll eventually be dumped by the hot jock (her brother, no less) for "someone hotter", that's years and years of conventional genre experience talking, then the movie reaching up and slapping her in the face for making wild assumptions. Why should Krista be blasted for trying to make friends with someone who isn't the main character? The movie also slyly plays the apparent blandness of Nadine's designate love interest against her; the more she and Erwin hang out, the more crazy discoveries she is making about him, and that only further drives home the point about how self-centred she is and how little listening she actually does.

What we need to realise is that there is an entire cluster of kids that aren't wildly partying, downing shots and flaunting their promiscuity (and even if they are, it doesn't make them the bad guys). Instead they're wrapped up in their own bubbles, watching Futurama on the couch and aiming death stares at those who dare tread past their domain. They internalise misery and contempt but are blind to their own faults and ignorance - Blake Jenner's climatic confession is a big whack to the head of the audience and Nadine, who have both built him up the perfect older brother, chiselled and handsome, competent and mature. Nadine isn't the perfect little snowflake that makes the whole school stop still for her, and when she eventually realises this she learns two things. One, she's actually the bad guy of the story. Two, she's not nearly as bad as she might have believed, and with a little help that can be fixed.