GOOD GIRLS
May 21, 2019
2 minutes
—TRACY E. GILCHRIST
For every generation, there’s a teen comedy that defines it. Booksmart—about teen girl best friends who discover on the eve of graduation that, while they were busy studying, their party-happy classmates were racking up life experience—is poised to become that era-defining comedy for Gen-Z.
The film’s first-time director Olivia Wilde and its stars, Beanie Feldstein (Molly) and Kaitlyn Dever (Amy), fire off and , renowned for capturing the essence of high school in the decade in which they were made. But unlike those films, features a central love story not between the prom queen and the rebel—but between female best friends Molly and Amy, who happens to be gay.
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