The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
An introvert and Naive freshman; Charlie, is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.
11 March 1991, Columbus, Ohio, USA
1994, New York City, New York, USA
30 September 1992, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
26 December 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 June 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 November 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
9 January 1989, Sofia, Bulgaria
22 November 1988, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
6 August 1983, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
June 3, 1973 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
15 April 1990, Paris, France
October 24, 1988 in Paramount, California, USA
16 May 1967, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
July 20, 2013
It's been a while since a movie captured so colorfully the comedy, tragedy, angst, and exuberance of adolescence.
June 28, 2013
"Like real teenagers, Watson and Miller convincingly move from glowing objects of desire to comic relief to deeply troubled human beings."
May 24, 2013
Bravely delves into issues of incest, depression, homophobia and most hauntingly, death. And rarely does any of it feel fake.
April 16, 2016
What it gets right is so right that the occasional clunky piece of dialogue or the slip of an accent isn't enough to derail a lovely piece of cinema.
October 02, 2012
Watson holds her own with a character more annoying on paper than in reality, but it's the boys who most impress ...
December 10, 2016
It understands how adolescence is a period of anxieties provoked by prosaic desires. [Full review in Portuguese.]
September 28, 2012
It's an earnest indie about a troubled teen, Charlie (Logan Lerman), and his various troubled confederates -- but it does demonstrate that Watson can stand on her own.
October 04, 2012
Sensitive teens and their older kin who pine for the '90s may want to take it for a spin on the dance floor.
October 18, 2013
Satisfying enough to delight younger audience members, and maybe win over a few older ones, too.
October 04, 2012
Regardless of the viewer's proximity to his or her own high school experience, "Perks" seems to get it right, precisely because it's not about a specific time or place.
September 28, 2012
High school can be hell, but Stephen Chbosky's engaging new film argues that anyone can get by with a little help from their friends.
October 09, 2012
Perks seems like the work of a much more experienced director, maintaining fidelity to the source material without sacrificing any cinematic qualities, triggering genuine sentimentality and nostalgia through interaction between sound and image.
