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    Booksmart: heartwarming, nostalgic and viscerally funny love letter to teen movies

    A high-school comedy that celebrates female friendships? It shouldn’t feel revolutionary but even in 2020 it’s a treat
    by Greta Parry Sep 21, 2020 3 minutes
    Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in Booksmart. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

    It’s obvious that Olivia Wilde loves teen movies because her 2019 directorial debut plays like a love letter to the genre. Booksmart, which tells the story of over-achieving BFFs Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) frantically trying to rewrite their high-school script the night before graduation, is as heartfelt as the most earnest John Hughes moments, as smart as Clueless and as viscerally funny as any 2000s gross-out comedy.

    I also love teen movies. I return

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