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Booksmart

Name: Booksmart
Director: Olivia Wilde
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2019
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Cast: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow

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Comedy

2019
Olivia Wilde
97 mins
15

Summary

Coming-of-age comedy starring Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever. On the eve of their high-school graduation, super-studious best friends Molly and Amy decide to let their hair down for a change by going to a wild end-of-year party. However, their attempts to make up for lost time in one night do not go as planned.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

This razor-sharp high-school comedy, the directorial debut of actor Olivia Wilde, sparkles with wit and quotable dialogue straight from a top drawer that might also contain Heathers or Juno. Best friends Molly and Amy, played respectively by Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (TV's Justified) are straight-A students who've worked hard to get into the top colleges of their choice, but the good girls want to go bad and take a walk on the wild side. Thus, the scene is set for one first night of hilarious partying hard before graduation. The two leads are perfectly matched, volleying one-liners back and forth with believable chemistry, their comic timing the envy of actors twice their age. Working from a dream of a screenplay (a collaboration between four women writers), Wilde stylishly depicts the essence of female teenage life, with artistic visual flourishes and a killer soundtrack.

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7.1/10

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