The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) on Netflix
In 1976 San Francisco, fifteen-year-old Minnie draws comics and keeps an audio diary. Her mother Charlotte's boyfriend Monroe takes her out, and the two begin an affair.
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- IMDb6.8/1035,798 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
Minnie is fifteen and lives in San Francisco in 1976. She draws comics and records an audio diary, curious about her own sexuality and eager to lose her virginity. She thinks she is overweight and unattractive, yet boys at school notice her. Her mother Charlotte is bohemian and busy, and one night, unable to go out with her boyfriend Monroe, she suggests he take Minnie instead. At a bar the two flirt, and an affair begins at his apartment.
Cast
- Quinn Nagleas Chuck
- Abby Waitas Gretel (as Abigail Wait)
- John Parsonsas Burt
- Carson D. Mellas Michael Cocaine
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bel Powley landed the lead role of Minnie by sending an audition tape from England in which she did an American accent throughout, convincing director Marielle Heller that she really was American.
- While turning Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel into a film, writer-director Marielle Heller went through roughly 85 drafts of the script.
- Years before making the film, Marielle Heller adapted Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel into a play and played the lead role in it herself.
- In the UK the film became the subject of controversy after the BBFC gave it an 18 rating, the equivalent of an NC-17 in the United States, instead of a 15, the equivalent of an R.
