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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012

Stephen Chbosky

Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman ...

7.1

40,038

Drama Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman who is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.

	Author	Review
United States	Rob Nelson Variety	"First-time writer-director Stephen Chbosky adapts his young-adult bestseller with far more passion than skill"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Perks' deserves points for going beyond the typical coming-of-age drivel aimed at teens. Logan Lerman excels as Charlie and Emma Watson makes a dream girl to die for, but the movie is stolen, head to tail, by Ezra Miller (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"An honest, affection-hooking, coming-of-age drama which proves that there is life beyond Hogwarts for Emma Watson. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It offers the rare pleasure of an author directing his own book, and doing it well. No one who loves the book will complain about the movie, and especially not about its near-ideal casting (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The results are likable, unsurprising and principally a showcase for the pretty young cast"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"[A] wonderfully observed coming-of-age film (...) The group’s tribulations ring toe-curlingly true (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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