"Seldom has teenage sexual awakening been covered from a female perspective quite so frankly or delicately." -Nathalie Atkinson, Globe and Mail
"The first thing to know about The Diary of a Teenage Girl is that young British actress Powley is staggeringly good in it." -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
"Big summer action movies can be thrilling, but if you really want to feel your heart pounding out of your chest, try being a 15-year-old girl for 101 minutes." -Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times
Minnie (Bel Powley), a fifteen-year-old aspiring cartoonist, finds herself in a complex love affair with "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). Monroe happens to be dating her mother (Kristen Wiig). Set in San Francisco during 1976, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL is a sensitive, sharp, funny, nonjudgmental account of Minnie's experiences during her sexual and artistic awakening. A big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, "Diary" is director Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's acclaimed graphic novel of the same name--hailed by Salon as "one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America."
Rating note: Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language and drinking, involving teens.