Booksmart
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It’s the last day of school and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever - check our interview!) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) make a shock realisation: even those who didn’t study still get to go to college. This leads the girls to become the party animals they never were. Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut isn’t just a woke take on the high school comedy genre. In fact, it’s a rather irreverent response to Ferris Bueller’s “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Fast, funny, sassy and smart, with nutritional ingredients not normally found in a teenage comedy, Booksmart intentionally avoids the more poisonous aspects of clique culture and instead renders everyone as equals in the fast-approaching headlights of maturity. It’s pretty clear that up in heaven, John Hughes is smiling down.
Booksmart | Directed by Olivia Wilde (US, 2019) with Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein. Starts Nov 14.
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