Elsie Fisher

Josh Hamilton

Emily Robinson

Jake Ryan

Daniel Zolghadri

Fred Hechinger

Imani Lewis

Luke Prael

Catherine Oliviere

Nora Mullins

Gerald Jones

Missy Yager

Shacha Temirov

Greg Crowe

Thomas J O'Reilly

Frank Deal

J. Tucker Smith

Tiffany Grossfeld

Trinity Goscinsky-Lynch

Natalie Carter

Kevin R. Free

Keith Maurice Davis

Deborah Unger

William Alexander Wunsch

Marguerite Stimpson

Tristan Wheeler

Kylie Seaman

Dylan Vonderhorst

Luke Mulligan

Louisa Rose Guarasci

Brenna Parker

William Koo

Andrew Geher

Faith Kelly

Jalesia Martinez

Blair Seaman

Phoebe Amirault

Veronica Bikowicz

Castor Feinberg

Molly Forman

Vivek Nickolas Mathews

Olivia Galligan

Kendall Seaman

Nina Victoria Mathews

Kaileen Quinones

V. Rocco Russell

Heidi Pakdel

Mitchell Travers

Grace McNay Graham

Hassan Boone

Rob Koch

Chris Wiesehahn

Jessica Padilla

Bernadette Pino

Diana Sikes

Stephenie Mohamed

Gary Malouf

Ted Goodwin

Jack Lewars

John Carbonara

Graham Burt

Skip Lievsay

Joe Facey

Patricia Grande

Anna Tringali

Jessie Ng

Patrick Sokley

Lee Salevan

Nathan Whiteside

Fiona Tyson

Suzana Peric

Bill Saxelby

Sean P. Gilbert

Isabel Henderson

Edward Drohan IV

Eli Bush

Bo Burnham

Lila Yacoub

Scott Rudin

Christopher Storer

Sam Lisenco

Anna Meredith

Jennifer Lilly

Linda Källérus

Matt McLarty

Pete Olshansky

Betsy Fippinger

Tatiana Forster

Allison Jones

Vic Coram

Elizabeth Krekel

Joshua Davy

Abraham Friedman

Tom Ishizuka

William J. Hopper

Lawrence Zipf

Jamin O'Brien

Sam Evoy

Jay Fisher

Paul Goodstein

Timothy Donovan

Emily Buntyn

Dann Fink

Rob L. Hubbard

Sarah Guenther

Evelyn Fogleman

Daniel Fisher

Edward Cohen

Brian Gackowski

Josh Olive

Meredith Tucker

Greg DeCellio

Paul Stula

Reynaldy Andre

Mark DeSimone

Michael Feuser

Dan Taggatz

Tammy Douglas

Matthew Haasch

Andrew Rice

Jeff Cornell

Barbara Jean Kearney

Dan Edelstein

Jake Krickhan

Joe Rudge

Henriette Vittadini

Erica Severson

Garry Pastore

Andrew Wehde

Comedy

Drama

Eighth Grade

Scott Rudin Productions

United States of America

Gimly

I can't elevate _Eighth Grade_ to the status that my peers have, it just wasn't all that to me. But it was still very good, and very real, that tangible sort of youth that comes with dedication to the format.

_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/its-brutal-out-here-eighth-gradenbspreview<a>

Internet comedian and humorous songwriter Bo Burnham in the role of writer and director of a movie about an eighth-grade girl sounds, on the surface, like quite a mismatch. What could Burnham know about the very specific horrors of being a thirteen-year-old girl in the internet age? It turns out that Burnham was the perfect person for the job. _Eighth Grade_ is both a comedy and a horror film. It’s an honest exploration of the anxiety of middle school and the out-of-body experience that is puberty. Burnham based the main character, Kayla (Elsie Fisher), on his own experiences with panic attacks and anxiety. He has explained that those feelings of anxiety remind him of the terrors of his own middle school experience.

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Elsie Fisher turns in a strong performance here as the teenage “Kayla” coming to terms with all of those uncertainties we all feel as puberty beckons. Coupled with her own personal issues, she’s in her last year of what could loosely be referred to a children’s school and is maybe just a little over-reliant on validation from social media to get her through her days. There’s no mum on the horizon, but her dad (Josh Hamilton) - who seems to spend a fair amount of time appearing in her bedroom doorway at night whilst she is surfing the internet, cares deeply for his daughter and is determined to help. That’s of course assuming either of them know if and how he can. Of course there are boys in this mix too, and like with many teenage crushes her’s with “Aiden” (Luke Prael) isn’t reciprocated nor is that of “Gabe” (Jake Ryan) with her. Maybe, though, it’s worth her considering that despite the more obvious confidences on display, many of her contemporaries are in exactly the same boat as her, they just display their emotions differently. It’s quite a tough watch this as it rather brutally and honestly displays just how different it is for kids nowadays to come to terms with impending adulthood in a limelight of audio and video that didn’t exist when I was that age. Hell, we’d not that long had colour television. The writing has an authenticity to it that can make you squirm with associative embarrassment, it can almost make you want to recoil from the screen - and that is a testament to her effort, but also to an enthusiastic one from Ryan and a considered one from Hamilton. There’s plenty of dark humour here, too, to oil the wheels of her journey of self-discovery and it says as much about the pitfalls of modern day parenting as it does about modern day adolescence. It did make me very glad that I don’t have to survive in their modern world seeking and/or delivering constant approval and appreciation. Worth a watch.