By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Cast: Hailee Steinfield, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Hayden Szeto, Erick Keenleyside, Kyra Sedgwick and Woody Harrelson.
Rating: Excellent.
Kelly Fremon Craig makes her directorial debut and teams up with Academy Award Winner James L. Brooks with “The Edge of Seventeen” and this is a sweet, funny andtouching film.
The story centers in Nadine (Hailee Steinfield) a seventeen year old high school girl who is in the verge of a nervous breakdown and constantly seeks advice from his high school teacher Mr. Bruner (Woody Harrelson).
To make things even worse, her best friend Krista(Haley Lu Richardson) begins to date Nadine’s brother Darian (Blake Jenner). She feels furious about this and ends her frienship with Krista.
Now Nadine’s journey will be in accepting others and learn how to give and be happy for herself and others before it’s too late.
I define “The Edge of Seventeen” as a feel good movie due to the theme and the message of the film.
Kelly Fremon Craig’s debut couldn’t start better and not only she directed a fun and entertaing film but wrote a brilliant screenplay.
The screenplay was written so much detail and fun that immediately you feel a connection towards the characters. The direction of Fremon Craig was precise and she knew to get the best of her cast and all of them gave memorable perfromances.
Every moment of the film works and the use of flashbacks, which by the way there was only one and itworked; it doesn’t make the movie predictable and is enjoying experience.
Hailee Steinfield is at the top of her game and gives another memorable performance in this sweet film.
I can tell that the movie has a little bit the touch of James L. Brooks, who produced the film but has the style of envolving characters who have inner conflicts and external towards the whole world and here was no different.
This movie by momentsreminded me of “As Good as it Gets”, which Brooks directed and scored Two Academy Awards for Best Actress Helen Hunt and Best Actor Jack Nicholson.
“The Edge of Seventeen” is one of the year’s best films and I guarantee you that you will have a very good time enjoying this sweet and funny film.