Movie Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen,’ a Gen Z High School Instant Classic

“The Edge of Seventeen” will most likely become a high school cult-classic for girls.

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama | 18 November 2016 (USA)

In the 1995 comedy “Clueless,” Alicia Silverstone’s breakout character was a blond, mega-popular high school princess. In “The Edge of Seventeen,” Hailee Steinfeld’s breakout character, Nadine Byrd, is a brunette, got-only-one-friend loser. If Nadine dared to try hanging with Cher Horowitz, Cher would snark, “As if!”