The Edge of 17 is written and directed by Kelly Craig and stars Hallee Steinfeld as Nadine a high school student who is going through the pains of turning 17 and the adolescent changes that come with that but they only get worse when her best friend Krista (Hayley Lu Richardson) starts dating her older brother Darian (Blake Jenner.)
Edge of 17 is a terrific high school film as good as any that have been made in the last 30 years and the ones from the 80s are tough to top but this deserves to sit on that same shelf with them first off Steinfeld is wonderful in this movie and she has really began to emerge as a fine young actress to watch, Woody Harrelson is also good as the high school history teacher while Jenner looks a lot like a young James Spader.
But this is Kelly's movie through and through and she does such a good job here that I really REALLY want her to make a Spider-Man movie because what she does so well is really capture what it's like to be at that age where your body is going through puberty and your emotions can very quickly go into overdrive and some handle that very well like Darian does but others don't handle it very well at all and watching this film I did think of when I was 17 and well I didn't like it at all.
But coming back to the Spider-Man feeling one thing that drives Peter Parker is guilt, guilt that he did not do the right thing and stop the killer of his uncle when he had the chance to do so but he does remember his line to him before he dies "With Great Power comes Great Responsibility" and in Nadine's character there is a certain level of guilt about some events in her life and that attention to character is what a great Spider-Man film could do with and Kelly would make a great one.
And so that was Edge of 17 a really great Teen flick that I really wish had done better at the box office as it's a little gem that deserves a big audience, 4 and a half out of 5.
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