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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

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A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.

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(novel), (screenplay)
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16 wins & 35 nominations. See more awards »
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Cast

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Willie ...
Domino the Cat
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Gretel (as Abigail Wait)
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Andrea
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Michael Cocaine
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Burt
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Ricky Wasserman
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Chuck
Davy Clements ...
Arnie
Charles Lewis III ...
Cool English Teacher
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Old Hippie
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Aline Kominsky (voice) (as Susannah Schulman)
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Storyline

A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.

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Drama | Romance

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language and drinking-all involving teens. | See all certifications »

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28 August 2015 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

A tinilány naplója  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$2,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$52,334, 9 August 2015, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,477,002, 23 October 2015
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2.35 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

Phoebe Gloeckner: In the scene where Minnie meets her mother and Monroe in the bar, Minnie runs out of the booth as the camera momentarily lingers on a brunette woman smoking a cigarette. The woman is Phoebe Gloeckner, author and illustrator of the original "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" novel. The novel is semi-autobiographical, with the character of Minnie Goetz based on Gloeckner herself. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Minnie: I had sex today... Holy shit.
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Connections

Featured in The EE British Academy Film Awards (2016) See more »

Soundtracks

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
Written by Harry Barris, Ted Koehler and Billy Moll
Performed by Nico
Courtesy of Universal Records
Under licens from Universal Music Enterprises
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Arrested development
9 November 2015 | by – See all my reviews

Being a grumpy old guy, I'm not at all the target audience for this film, so please bear that in mind when I tell you that I found this a fairly tedious coming-of-age movie. I admired aspects of it - in particular the performances of Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgård - but I wasn't able to maintain my interest in the story.

The biggest obstacle was, I think, that Minnie, the eponymous teenage girl, was not the only adolescent around. All the adults in her life were at various stages of arrested development. This is possibly the point both of the movie and of the novel it is based on: how can a child grow up when all her role-models are children themselves? It's an interesting question, but when transmitted as drama the audience finds itself stuck in high school for the duration.


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