The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, in her directorial debut. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, and Haley Lu Richardson. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 16, 2016, and was theatrically released on November 18, 2016, by STXfilms. It received positive reviews, with Steinfeld's performance being critically acclaimed, and grossed over $19.4 million against a budget of $9 million.

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[chattering] Shh!

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[tires screech]

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♪ Last time I tried to call you up ♪ ♪ I couldn't reach you 'cause you were stuck so far up ♪ ♪ I knew you when you were just rude ♪ ♪ I knew I loved your attitude ♪ ♪ Five minutes all that you got left ♪ ♪ Long way down, boy I wouldn't hold your breath ♪ ♪ I knew you when you knew the time ♪ ♪ I knew you for your bottom line ♪ ♪ Who I thought you were ♪ ♪ Who I thought you were ♪ [ends] Look, I don't wanna take up a ton of your time... but I'm gonna kill myself.

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I just thought that someone should know. I don't know how this works. I'm probably gonna jump off an overpass in front of a semi, so-- Or a U-Haul. Not a bus. I'm not gonna be a dick and make people watch. But it has to be big. It's gotta be so big that it just-- Done. Kills me. Lights out. 'Cause if it just maims me and I'm like-- Well, how's that good for anyone? Then I gotta find a nurse to smother me. How am I gonna get across "smothering" if I'm-- We don't need to get caught up in the minutia. I just thought that an adult-- You should know.

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Wow. This is, uh, a lot to take in, Nadine. I-- I wish I knew what to say. Well, I was actually just drafting my own suicide note just now. "Dear everybody. As some of you know, I have 32 fleeting minutes of happiness per school day during lunch, which has been eaten up again and again by the same... especially badly dressed student, and I finally thought, you know what? I would rather have the dark, empty nothingness. I really would. It sounds... relaxing.

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Have a nice life without me, fuckers." You are so gonna get fired when I actually do it. Well, not for sure, but I can dream.

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[Nadine narrating] Let me start from the beginning. Around second grade I had a realization.

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There are two types of people in this world. The people who radiate confidence and naturally excel at life-- Yes! Yes! And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion. [man] All right, knock 'em dead, kiddo. My brother Darian was a winner from day one and had about a million fans. Bye. His biggest one-- my mother.

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-Bye, sweetheart. -[door closes] Oh, check it out. Okay, boss lady, see you tonight.

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Nadine, we're not doing this again. You promised. Now get out of the car.

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[sighs] Well, that's it.

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[Nadine narrating] You could say my mother and I weren't exactly peas in a pod. Oh. No. [grunts] And the only one who could handle either of us... was Dad.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey. [Nadine narrating] Dad had a nearly impossible task-- having to manage us both.

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All right now, I know kids can be mean.

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But if you get a chance, fart into their backpacks. [chuckles]

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I wish you were small.

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[Nadine narrating] Then I'd at least have one person to have lunch with.

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Instead, the most attention I got at school was from these three.

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Nobody likes you. You suck and you're gonna get AIDS. [laughing]

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Over here! Run! [Nadine narrating] My childhood had become a raging Dumpster fire, and I couldn't take one more second of this intolerable, unlivable nightmare of a-- Excuse me.

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