Part of Teenage Wasteland
Based on the best-selling novel written by director Stephen Chbosky, 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman) is an endearing and naive outsider coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness — all while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introverted freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.
“An earnest, big-hearted ode to friends as support and salvation, and to the talismanic quality a favorite song, treasured hang-out, or shared tradition can take on for a teenager.” —Alison Willmore, The A.V. Club (Sep 20, 2012) “All of my previous selves still survive somewhere inside of me, and my previous adolescent would have loved THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER…. It offers the rare pleasure of an author directing his own book, and doing it well. No one who loves the book will complain about the movie, and especially not about its near-ideal casting.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Sep 26, 2012) “It could be the benefits of having the author do double duty that allows PERKS to be as good as it is…. Touching and brimming with the energy, enthusiasm and tides of teenage love and life, PERKS could very well be the next classic of the genre.” —The Playlist (Sep 7, 2012)
