What do you get when you mix 1/4 "Heathers" and 3/4 after school special? This movie.

I think this film is one of the best examples of how the Rotten Tomatoes scores can be misleading. The RT scores are an indication of either a positive or negative score and nothing more. A film like this certainly isn't bad so it gets a plus from the reviewer. However, it certainly isn't great by any stretch of the imagination.

I admit to being a sucker for the coming-of-age genre and based on a lot of the reviews others feel the same way. But I think that skews the technical review of the movie (something I call "the coffee shop effect" - we are all more than happy to listen to the folk singer in the corner of the coffee shop but we'd never actually buy his cd. The backdrop makes it feel better than it is). There is nothing fresh or new in this film and I can't fathom why it is getting the amount of run that it has. This isn't even the best coming-of-age film I've seen in the last few weeks let alone be nominated for movie of the year. There have been better entries in this area - The Way Way Back, Edge of Seventeen, The Spectacular Now to name a few.

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