dvd of the week
Stephen Chbosky adapted his own novel for the screen and made a movie even more acclaimed and beloved than his book, which is a tall order. In Pittsburgh in the 1980s, Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a depressive outcast who befriends and is befriended by his high school’s one gay student Patrick (Ezra Miller) and his step-sister Sam (Emma Watson). Plot-wise, it is a somewhat standard coming of age drama, but Chbosky’s impressively sensitive direction and truly inspired performances by Watson, Lerman and especially Miller make the film arguably one of the best movies about adolescents ever made.
