Film201894 min

Eighth Grade

Name: Eighth Grade
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2018
Duration: 94 min
Cast: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri

Taste attributes: comedydramateenlightrealisticsimplelinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationship

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"Based on the most awkward year of your life"

Boxlist takeA grounded, uncomplicated comedy-drama: intimate and moving. Best if you like real life over fantasy.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

7.2/10

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Pace: Balanced pace, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it

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Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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