“I had a terrible thought, that I’m going to have to spend the rest of my life with myself,” says Hailee Steinfeld’s Nadine, the teenage girl at the center of Kelly Fremon Craig’s The Edge of Seventeen. It’s one of the many moments in the film that will likely come out of nowhere and hit you square in the gut, transporting you from your movie theatre seat back to a faraway memory when you had a similar realization, and while it might not have come while you were throwing up into your own bathroom toilet like Nadine, it manages to feel heartbreakingly real and relatable nonetheless. In the end, the same can essentially be said for the entirety of The Edge of Seventeen.
Written and directed by Fremon Craig, the film introduces us to Steinfeld’s Nadine on the brink of committing suicide at the age of 17, coming to her ambivalent, smart ass high school history teacher (played brilliantly by Woody Harrelson) for help, before we’re filled in with the rest of the important details of her life. These include flashback scenes to her as a young girl meeting her best friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), for the first time. But following a personal tragedy that fractures her family into pieces, Nadine is sent into a spiral of loneliness and short-sighted mistakes once she becomes aware of a burgeoning relationship between Krista and her stereotypically perfect, jock brother, Darian (Blake Jenner).
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