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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015 · 102 min

A candid, bittersweet plunge into teenage desire and confusion, warm and uncomfortable in equal measure.

Tagline: Sex, drugs, and recordings of it all.
Overview: Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
sexuality
identity
family
love
Places: big city
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, romance, comedy
Directed by: Marielle Heller
Written by: Marielle Heller
Starring: Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Austin Lyon, Madeleine Waters, Margarita Levieva, Quinn Nagle
Music: Nate Heller
Cinematography: Brandon Trost
Runtime: 102 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: Turkish, English

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