Though she first caught our attention as young Mattie Ross opposite Jeff Bridges in 2010’s True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld has taken her time adjusting to the limelight. Roles in 2013’s Begin Again and 2015’s Pitch Perfect 2 kept her relevant, but it appears that this upcoming The Edge of Seventeen is set to be the film that makes her a star - if the film can live up to its just released red-band trailer that is.
Capturing the first world struggles of growing up in today’s modern society, complete with social media and raging hormones, The Edge of Seventeen appears to be an honest, candid, and dare I say authentic look at growing up millennial.
Centered around high school junior Nadine, the trailer opens with her catching her brother and best friend in bed together, prompting the most proper response to ever escape an actor’s mouth: “What the fuck?”
From there we are taken through a montage of scenes that help to sell Steinfeld as a painfully awkward, unusually forthright teenage. She plays for laughs - and gets them as witty dialogue and one-liners help to build a tone that yearns for our attention.
The film, which co-stars Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson, Hayden Szeto, Kyra Sedwick and Woody Harrelson, is set to invade theaters on November 18th.
