IRL, it's pretty dicey to date your best friend's brother because things will get weird if it doesn't work out, but this being a movie that wraps up in two hours, we can pretend they all live happily ever after, or through high school at least, which is plenty when you're a teenager. Part of that is her seeing her brother in a different light and seeing Krista as a person, not just as her friend and personal sanctuary. So wouldn't being in her camp on everything means you are her worst enemy too? The entire point of this coming of age movie is to challenge Nadine's perspective and to show how she changes and grows. Nadine is, as you say, her own worst enemy. It also helps that he is really hot :) So they bond a little, have sex, feel guilty, then decide they're their own people and deserve to carve out their own happiness separate from Nadine, who, if she cares about them, has to learn to be happy for them. Krista, being a smart and perceptive girl, can see that too, despite what Nadine says. We the audience can see early on in the movie that her brother is not the dumb, shallow, and privileged jock that Nadine makes him out to be. Her friendship with the endlessly patient, positive Krista brightens Nadine’s world view a bit, though she’s still a handful by the time she hits high school - the kind of kid who corrects her teachers, calls herself an “old soul” and, in a move worthy of Lena Dunham’s Hannah Horvath on Girls, literally crawls around the house when she’s hungover (just to, you know, indulge).It seems to me you made the argument for Krista in your post. The two are immediately inseparable and remain BFFs as the years go by, through bad skin, worse hair - we get a glimpse of Steinfeld as a 13ish Nadine with an unfortunate Greg Brady ‘do - and real tragedy when Nadine’s father dies suddenly. Things pick up for Nadine when she meets gentle soul Krista (Ava Grace Cooper) on the school playground. Flighty Mom ( Kyra Sedgwick) doesn’t know what to do with her daughter, but Dad (Eric Keenleyside) is a big softie (though he may be partly responsible for her social difficulties at one point, he counsels the pint-sized pessimist to stand up to bullies by farting into their backpacks). Little Nadine (Lina Renna) is a sulky and morose child, seething with resentment toward slightly older brother Darian, who’s the apple of everyone’s eye. Bruner ( Woody Harrelson) to announce her impending suicide, the movie flashes back a decade.
#The edge of seventeen how to#
Taken on its own modest terms, the movie proves that sometimes all you need is a strong cast, a sturdy script and a director who knows when and how to stay out of the way.Īfter an unpromising first scene in which the high-school junior rushes into the classroom of history teacher Mr. Instead, it coasts on brisk humor and clear-eyed empathy for its endearing, exasperating protagonist, neither brazenly satirizing her rather routine adolescent crises nor drowning them in acoustic-strumming earnestness.
But The Edge of Seventeen is considerably less arch and gimmick-driven - less edgy, for lack of a better word - than other recent entries in the sub-genre (including decent ones like Easy A).
Brooks, isn’t sporadically funny (it is) or doesn’t sometimes strain to be clever (it does). That doesn’t mean this directorial debut from Kelly Fremon Craig, produced by James L. Not that we needed another teen comedy revolving around angsty white millennials, but here’s The Edge of Seventeenanyway, and guess what? It’s really, really good.įast, full-hearted and graced with a beautifully modulated lead turn by Hailee Steinfeld, the movie takes the risk of playing it straight and sincere - and the risk pays off.
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