Synopsis
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
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Cast
- Bel PowleyMinnie Goetze
- Kristen WiigCharlotte Worthington
- Alexander SkarsgårdMonroe Rutherford
- Christopher MeloniPascal MacCorkill
- Austin LyonRicky Wasserman
- Madeleine WatersKimmie Minter
- Margarita LevievaTabatha
- Quinn NagleChuck Saunders
- Abby WaitGretel
- John ParsonsBurt
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
It’s morally complex and sometimes uncomfortably close to the bone, but also lushly bawdy and funny, and packaged together with an astonishing degree of cinematic brio by first-time writer-director Marielle Heller. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
A remarkably vibrant and frank look at one precocious teen’s emerging sexual life — a film with the stuff of life coursing through its veins and sex very much on its brain. - 100
Screen Daily
It’s this adoption not only of Minnie’s point of view but the voice and narrative style of her half girlish, half womanly outlook on life that makes The Diary of a Teenage Girl such a vibrant, hopeful film. - 91
IndieWire
As told through Heller’s acutely sensitive vision, the result is less off-putting and more of an authentic insight into a perspective grossly underrepresented in American cinema. - 91
Hitfix
For all of Heller's impressive direction, she could have delivered something soulless without Powley's contributions. - 88
Slant Magazine
True to its title, Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's semi-autobiographical novel has the loosely structured, unfiltered feel of a young person's diary. - 83
The Playlist
As uneven as it can be at times in its last fifteen minutes, Marielle Heller has crafted a super promising debut that evokes the idea of unlocking the secret world of teenage girls and letting us live inside the special little jewel box if ever so briefly. - 80
Variety
This adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s heavily autobiographical novel is ideally cast and skillfully handled.
