Synopsis
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
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Cast
- Jacob WysockiTerri
- John C. ReillyMr. Fitzgerald
- Creed BrattonUncle James
- Olivia CrocicchiaHeather Miles
- Bridger ZadinaChad
- Mary Anne McGarryMs Hamish
- Justin PrenticeDirty Jack
- Jenna GaviganSamantha Goode
- Curtiss FrisleSex Ed
- Tara KarsianMrs. Davidson
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
Jacobs, working from a script by Patrick de Witt, takes a conventional coming-of-age story and does it proud, enlivening the plot with an almost experimental portrait of alienation and despair. - 83
The A.V. Club
deWitt's script is much better than anything Jacobs has worked on before, with a story that gets richer as it goes. - 80
Village Voice
Humanistic without being moralistic, and very funny, Terri is a measured, observational examination of the stratification of teenage loser-dom. - 80
Time Out
A movie that could terrify parents while charming them with its compassion. - 80
The New York Times
What lifts Terri above its peers is not the plight of its protagonist or the film's sympathy for him, but rather the care and craft that the director, Azazel Jacobs, has brought to fairly conventional material. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
If the lighter scenes sometimes lean toward sitcom cuteness, Jacobs has a sufficiently deft touch to get away with it. The territory often seems closest to that of NBC's unjustly short-lived "Freaks and Geeks," which is by no means a bad place to be. - 70
Variety
Jacobs' slow-building portrait of a late bloomer makes this poetic picture an outsider even among outsider movies. - 63
Slant Magazine
Terri, a generously spirited dramedy in the high-school-misfit genre (indie division), finds director Azazel Jacobs taking a calling-card approach to his second feature.
