Genre: Drama
Director: Kogonada
Writer: Alex Conn
Cast: Lucas Hedges, Elle Fanning, Haley Lu Richardson, Kara Hayward, Mark Rylance, Bob Balaban
Budget: $27,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $59,398,573
Foreign Box Office: $36,702,182
Total Profit: $25,914,339
Reaction: Very strong numbers for this modestly-budgeted teen drama. The appeal of young stars like Hedges and Fanning surely helped bring people into the theaters, making this film the highest grossing, and most profitable, film of writer Alex Conn’s career so far.
“Lucas Hedges deserves a lot of credit for making the main character work. In less talented hands, the character could have come across as very unlikable between the moping and sexual pressuring, but with Hedges, the character feels very human. If the main character hadn’t worked, the entire film wouldn’t have worked.” - Charles Yost, Oregonian
“While it’s not as bad as Alex Conn’s last few films, it does have some very critical flaws. The characters all feel too mopey to connect with, and Elle Fanning especially feels wasted on a thankless role.” - Sean Williamson, Toronto Star
“Writer Alex Conn has rebounded nicely from the streak of critical and commercial flops (Scream 5, The Virgin Suicides and The William Hung Story) and delivered something that actually feels thought out. The characters are all flawed in realistic ways, rather than ways that are convenient to the plot.” - Tim Durand, San Francisco Chronicle
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