{"id":11652,"date":"2017-01-06T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11652"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:29:31","slug":"the-edge-of-seventeen-2016-kelly-fremon-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11652","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hailee Steinfeld (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5790\">True Grit<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9889\">Begin Again<\/a><\/em>) is an awkward teen who likes a guy (&#8220;bad boy&#8221; Alex Calvert), is liked by a different guy (cartoonist Hayden Szeto), hates her brother (Blake Jenner of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11051\">EWS!!<\/a><\/em>) and has a best friend (Haley Lu Richardson, kidnappee in <em>Split<\/em>) who starts dating the brother.  So far, so typical.  But the sparkling dialogue and the work by Woody Harrelson as her patient, smartass teacher should ensure this movie&#8217;s place in Teen Film Eternity, to run on cable (or streaming or whatever) for generations.<\/p>\n<p>David Ehrlich&#8217;s review got our butts into the theater:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfolding like a symphony of small humiliations, there isn&#8217;t a moment in this movie that doesn&#8217;t feel at least vaguely familiar, and there isn&#8217;t a moment in this movie that doesn&#8217;t feel completely true &#8230; the scenes with the highest potential for hokeyness are the ones that Craig and her cast most relish &#8230; When shit gets heavy between Nadine and her brother, both Steinfeld and Jenner tap into a sense of depth so real that it almost seems alien to the genre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Begin Again) is an awkward teen who likes a guy (&#8220;bad boy&#8221; Alex Calvert), is liked by a different guy (cartoonist Hayden Szeto), hates her brother (Blake Jenner of EWS!!) and has a best friend (Haley Lu Richardson, kidnappee in Split) who starts dating the brother. So far, so typical. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1467,2186,1070],"class_list":["post-11652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-high-school","tag-kelly-craig","tag-woody-harrelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11711,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions\/11711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}