I have never sucked dick in a PetLand.The Edge of Seventeen opens up a real window into the movie in the title. You get a peep-shot straightaway with the yellow border and black font as to what kind of movie this is going to be: edgy, with seventeen-year-oldsDespite not knowing even what a PetLand was, I felt more connected to The Edge of Seventeen more than I have any other teen movie in a long time. It probably helps that I am seventeen. It plays so truthfully to the gross, weird adolescent experience that I felt like some scenes held up a mirror to my sloppy hair-bunned face and said, "Look! Look, everyone is just as awkward and miserable as you are."The beginning is cliched, but forgivable because it provides a quick pocket of exposition that reveals enough to allow viewers to understand Nadine's reactions. The dialogue is biting and earns more than just a nostril snort, and most importantly, reminiscent of how teenagers actually speak to one another. Characters tackle several tropes: brother dating best-friend, bad-boy, nerd-who-has-a-crush-on-me, and the all-important teen movie party scene with all the finesse that real teenagers would possess.It's hard to speak about what makes this movie so real, so cringey, and so well-done. That's probably why I am not a movie critic. However, I can say that it strikes that perfect balance with awkward, cringey scenes (like someone getting an unsolicited kiss on a Ferris wheel) by using jokes that don't cheapen the severity of the situation, but rather diffuse it, just like real life. Characters fumble through with some forgivable mistakes that I could see becoming fond adulthood bar stories.Instead of making caricatures and grotesquely dramatic scenes, it imbues that same heartfelt humanity in awkward, painful, and "yikes" scenes that radiates through the rest of the film. In no scene does this film make the characters over-react for the sake of tension. All characters, not just the titular whiny Nadine, suffer humilations, desires, and motivations. That allows them all to develop and break out of the stereotypes that usually plague secondary characters.Edge of Seventeen also tackles a tumultuous familial relationship, with an eventual reconciliation (spoiler, but come on. It's a coming-of-age movie.) that doesn't feel forced and unnatural. Waterfalls don't come pouring out of one another's eyes in a sobbed apologies. It is awkward, but charming. It leaves you with that glimmer of hope that follows every awkward familial apology after a Desert Storm level fight-that your family, and the argument, aren't fixed, but they're not inflamed. It's healing.So, yeah. I've never sucked dick in a PetLand. But neither has Nadine.I give this movie 10 Hell Yeahs.

Though this film fits the coming of age genre the struggles that Nadine, the main character, is going through are not purely 'teen problems', As a 20 something year old this film deeply resonated with me and though similar to Nadine I was a socially awkward, defensive and pessimistic teenager it wasn't just the teenage me who could find the character relatable. I've noticed in the low rated comments one of the main reasons people didn't like the film is because the main character isn't likeable. And though I loved the film, I would agree; she isn't likeable. And the film is more realistic and better off for it. In real life we aren't always likeable people ourselves and the film almost acts as a tool to allow us to step back and really look at our current or teenage selves. Nadine does realise and understand towards the end and throughout the film her erratic and selfish behaviour is a result of her self loathing because she knows she doesn't want to continue being that way but she's stuck in this endless cycle and doesn't know how to get out. The valuable lesson from the film and her journey within it is that we often bring misfortune and unhappiness on ourselves in the way we handle and respond to bad things in our lives. I think this film will speak to anyone who has felt alone in the world, lost without purpose or anywhere to fit in. If you like films about people rather than action and you watch a film to be taken on a journey (albeit an emotional one) rather than to have an enjoyable couple of hours then this may be the film for you. It helps that is has an excellent cast, each actor fitting their roles well and bringing them to life.Another positive note I took away from the film is the way it handles and represents mental illness/ distress as it does so without labels and in a subtle way without needing to bring it to the forefront.

Hailee Steinfeld the Best Actress of all time and I love her acting 10/10 Best Movie of all time

This film is directed and written by Kelly Fremon Craig, is a modern, comedy film of the 2016. The film begins with Nadine sit and talk about all of her problems and said "I'm gonna kill myself" to her favourite teacher Mr.Brunner. Her high school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend Krista starts dating her older brother. Hailee Steinfeld who played as a Nadine is funny, vulnerable, radiant, pretty and fearless as Nadine. This movie is funny. It's touching and poignant. The edge of seventeen is a essentially a funny, enjoyable film and every jokes and everybody is great. It's suitable for teenagers. For these of you who like a good chuckle and who has a problem about growing up, it's well worth going to see.