The Edge of Seventeen.

It’s fun and funny.

Ahh the turmoils of being 17.

It’s funny how nothing has changed since I was 17, yet everyone has a different story to tell that puts a new spin on yours. That’s the case with The Edge of 17.

Hailee Steinfeld plays a seventeen year old having a meltdown when her perfect twin brother starts to date the only friend she has in her life. She can’t go to her mom who she thinks thinks her brother is just perfect. With her life being over, the only person in the world she can talk to is her Teacher, played by Woody Harrison.

I loved Steinfeild in this movie. She was capable of fulling going annoying teenager without being a turn off to adults like myself watching. She was able to lore me into her life without sucking the life right out of me.

Also digging Woody Harrison as her teacher, the type of man who has spent the last 30 or so years of his life dealing with seventeen year olds, so nothing that she’s going through phases him, and he’s able to keep the cool head needed to deal with her problems.

All the characters in the movie were impressive. Somehow the archetype of the dumb jock that was done in this movie was not as much of a flat concept as it usually is, even from the very start before we get the characters overall picture.

The Edge of seventeen was a movie made by the same people who make the Simpsons , and like the Simpsons, The Edge of 17 is all about an interesting ensemble of characters able to poke fun at all walks of life without insulting anyone.

It most likely will be one of those films that goes down in history as one of the best Teen comedies ever.