It's all the things most high school coming-of-age/rights-of-passage movies are. And, the central character having to go through her trial of fire to arrive at the story's moral ending. And they actually pulled off a beautiful job by casting it fantastically with some very gifted young actors. Who all seemed to actually grasp their parts with a bit of raw nerved vulnerability and bite. Funny, emotional, and pretty entertaining, while giving a treatment of the cancer that was respectful, yet remained light hearted enough for the genre. A rewarding little movie.