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Cringe-inducing and heartening, Bo Burnham ’s Eight Grade is an independent film depicting the last week of middle school for awkwardly charismatic introvert, Kayla. Played by actor Elsie Fisher, who was only 14 when the film was shot, Eighth Grade is irreverent and feels essential. Alongside Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, it joins the pan theon of films which honor, as opposed to glorify the potential excesses of, early teen development. Perhaps that is what my coauthor and training director, Edwin Williamson, saw in Eighth Grade when he watched the trailer, making certain that all fellows in our training program got to the theater t o see it.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Book forum Source Type: research