🎶 girl, it's so confusing sometimes to be a girl, girl, girl, girl, girl 🎶
Kudos to Bo Burnham for writing such an amazingly accurate portrayal of awkward teenage girlhood, and double kudos to the casting for making perfect selections from Elsie Fisher as the lead through all the supporting roles.
Favorite (Not Necessarily Best) Four From Every Year Since Birth
Eighth Grade
Based on the most awkward year of your life.
Rating
4.5 (1)
Release Date
1/19/2018Runtime
94 minsOverview
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
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A bracingly honest portrait of the social and emotional gauntlet of adolescence, filtered through the particular anxieties of growing up online. It's simultaneously painful and deeply compassionate, finding humor in the specific texture of teenage awkwardness without ever mocking its subjects.
Mood
WistfulHopeful
Themes
Coming of ageIdentityFriendshipFamily
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Meditative
Look
NaturalisticHandheld
Structure
Single location
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