"The Edge of Seventeen" is Much More Than Another Teen Movie
The Edge of Seventeen (2016) For years, audiences have suffered through the dreaded coming of age story, in which we watch some angsty blank slate of a teenage boy or a preppy bubbly girl (whose only flaw is her clumsiness and uncanny knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time) struggle through an awkward crush before finally getting a date with the object of their affection. While each movie set in high school tries to offer something new and edgy, they rarely ever follow through and join the sea of low-budget films about awkward kids (who aren't really that awkward, and are usually good looking enough to be the popular kid in school) trying to find their place in a high school full of twenty year olds. Then The Edge of Seventeen came along. The Edge of Seventeen offers a simple plot, which would have been easy to ruin were it placed in the hands of a less competent director. Nadine is a high school junior who has only one friend, but when that one friend falls in...