Almost Adults
2016
Action / Comedy / Drama
Almost Adults
2016
Action / Comedy / Drama
Plot summary
A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.
Director
Top cast
Tech specs
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Why did I watch this
Surprisingly Non-inclusive?
Admittedly I was expecting a lot from this movie knowing the team that built it. The writing is a bit clunky and the storyline isn't too deep but nothing unexpected from a first film. That's not really a huge issue - (outside of the main character not knowing having an online relationship with someone in 2017 would count as cheating??) - the writing is fine.
The main issue is the entire movie is weirdly cis centered and leans into outdated stereotypes of gays and lesbians. Some of the language used is transphobic, the cast is mostly entirely white and they causally use the R word in a throw away line as an insult.
From a team that is generally (albeit not the most inclusive) good about having diversity in their cast and writing, this really fell short. Hopefully this is just a jumping off point and any other projects they work on in the future will be more self aware.







