Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love,
acceptance and a
sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her
mother's
(Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe
Rutherford
(Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account
of one girl's
sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Set in 1976 San Francisco, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL begins at the
crossroads of the
fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock. News commentary of the Patty
Hearst
trial echoes in the background, as Minnie's young expressive eyes soak in a
drug-laden city
in transition—where teenage rebellion and adult responsibility clash in
characters lost and
longing. Minnie's hard-partying mother and absent father have left her
rudderless. She first
finds solace in Monroe's seductive smile, and then on the backstreets of the
city by the
bay. Animation serves a refuge from the confusing and unstable world around her.
Minnie
emerges defiant—taking command of her sexuality and drawing on her newfound
creative
talents to reveal truths in the kind of intimate and vivid detail that can only
be found in the
pages of a teenage girl's diary.
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