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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Name: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Director: Marielle Heller
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: 2015
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Margarita Levieva

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Drama
Comedy

2015
Marielle Heller
97 mins
18

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Drama starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgård. In San Francisco in 1976, a smart 15-year-old girl with aspirations to be a cartoonist strikes up a sexual relationship with the boyfriend of her hard-partying mother.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Karen Krizanovich

"I had sex today. Holy s***!" That's the first line in debuting director Marielle Heller's ground-breaking coming-of-age comedic drama. Explicit but never exploitative, it's based on the novel by Phoebe Gloeckner that dares to tell of Minnie (Bel Powley of TV's Benidorm), a smart 15-year-old girl who wants to have sex but fears it will never ever happen. A tricky topic but credible, especially in San Francisco in 1976, where Minnie's mother Charlotte (Kristen Wiig) parties hard and dates the simplistic 35-year-old Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). Sleeping with Monroe is only the first step in Minnie's rollercoaster of reality as she follows her instincts - some good, some awful - but, crucially, learns from her mistakes. Powley, Wiig and Skarsgård turn in powerful, finely observed performances in this sensitive, entertaining explosion of honesty.

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6.8/10

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