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Movies that feel likeThe Edge of Seventeen (2016)

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

If you loved The Edge of Seventeen, the closest films we have are Frances Ha (2013), Lady Bird (2017) and Mean Girls (2004). All three share The Edge of Seventeen's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kelly Fremon Craigwittyplayfulcontemplativewarmwistfullonely
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Frances Ha
2013 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 92%★ 7.4comedy · dramaNetflix

Common ground in both: friendship and loneliness

The difference: Takes it somewhere less wistful than The Edge of Seventeen does

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

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Lady Bird
2017 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 99%★ 7.4drama · comedyMaxHulu

Both are working the same pair: growing up, teen angst

The difference: Trades the loneliness of The Edge of Seventeen for an angle of its own

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

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Mean Girls
2004 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama · comedyParamount+

The same two preoccupations: teenage girl, and best friend

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
🍅 81%★ 7.7drama · comedyRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: high school

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

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Chronicle
2012 · dir. Josh Trank
🍅 85%★ 7science fiction · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Edge of Seventeen does

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

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Booksmart
2019 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 96%★ 7.1comedyRent or buy

One thread runs through both: high school

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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The DUFF
2015 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 72%★ 6.4romance · comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together they'll face the school's mean girl and remind everyone that we are all someone's DUFF… and that's totally fine.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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The Florida Project
2017 · dir. Sean Baker
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama

Drama built on warmth, twice over

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

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Mud
2013 · dir. Jeff Nichols
🍅 97%★ 7.3drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%★ 6.7comedy · drama

Common ground: teenage girl

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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