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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
An introvert and Naive freshman; Charlie, is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.
28 July 1986, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1 May 1988, Long Island, New York, USA
6 August 1983, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
October 24, 1988 in Paramount, California, USA
18 January 1987, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
26 October 1961, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
June 3, 1973 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
12 December 1984, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
1994, New York City, New York, USA
1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
15 April 1990, Paris, France
10 October 1989, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
25 April 1997, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
30 May 1954, Newark, New Jersey, USA
October 18, 2013
Satisfying enough to delight younger audience members, and maybe win over a few older ones, too.
October 04, 2012
Sensitive teens and their older kin who pine for the '90s may want to take it for a spin on the dance floor.
September 28, 2012
High school can be hell, but Stephen Chbosky's engaging new film argues that anyone can get by with a little help from their friends.
July 20, 2013
It's been a while since a movie captured so colorfully the comedy, tragedy, angst, and exuberance of adolescence.
December 10, 2016
It understands how adolescence is a period of anxieties provoked by prosaic desires. [Full review in Portuguese.]
October 09, 2012
Perks seems like the work of a much more experienced director, maintaining fidelity to the source material without sacrificing any cinematic qualities, triggering genuine sentimentality and nostalgia through interaction between sound and image.
October 04, 2012
Regardless of the viewer's proximity to his or her own high school experience, "Perks" seems to get it right, precisely because it's not about a specific time or place.
April 16, 2016
What it gets right is so right that the occasional clunky piece of dialogue or the slip of an accent isn't enough to derail a lovely piece of cinema.
May 24, 2013
Bravely delves into issues of incest, depression, homophobia and most hauntingly, death. And rarely does any of it feel fake.
September 28, 2012
It's an earnest indie about a troubled teen, Charlie (Logan Lerman), and his various troubled confederates -- but it does demonstrate that Watson can stand on her own.
June 28, 2013
"Like real teenagers, Watson and Miller convincingly move from glowing objects of desire to comic relief to deeply troubled human beings."
October 02, 2012
Watson holds her own with a character more annoying on paper than in reality, but it's the boys who most impress ...
