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| Bel Powley | ... | ||
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Willie | ... |
Domino the Cat
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| Kristen Wiig | ... | ||
| Abby Wait | ... |
Gretel
(as Abigail Wait)
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| Alexander Skarsgård | ... | ||
| Miranda Bailey | ... |
Andrea
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| Carson Mell | ... |
Michael Cocaine
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| John Parsons | ... |
Burt
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| Madeleine Waters | ... | ||
| Austin Lyon | ... |
Ricky Wasserman
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| Quinn Nagle | ... |
Chuck
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Davy Clements | ... |
Arnie
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Charles Lewis III | ... |
Cool English Teacher
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| David Fine | ... |
Old Hippie
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| Susannah Rogers | ... |
Aline Kominsky
(voice) (as Susannah Schulman)
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A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
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.