The Spectacular Now (2013) on Netflix
Sutter Keely drinks and parties through his senior year. Cassidy, his girlfriend, has just ended things, and he wakes on a lawn to Aimee Finecky, a classmate working her mother's paper route.
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Plot summary
Aimee Finecky is out on her mother's paper route when she finds Sutter Keely asleep on a lawn. Sutter is a popular senior who has spent his final year of high school drinking at parties. Cassidy ends their relationship, and in a college application essay he names being dumped as the hardest thing he has faced. He then sneaks into a bar and drinks until he blacks out. When Aimee wakes him they look for his car together, and they arrange to have lunch, where he asks her for geometry tutoring and invites her to a party.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Spectacular Now (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the rights to Tim Tharp's novel in 2009 with Marc Webb set to direct, but Webb left for The Amazing Spider-Man and the studio lost the rights as a result.
- Director James Ponsoldt shot The Spectacular Now in Athens, the hometown he called the only place he wanted to make the film, and shot in the streets and houses of his childhood.
