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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

★ 6.6 · 784 ratings on TMDB

Sex, drugs, and recordings of it all.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl poster★ 6.6

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

DirectorMarielle Heller
CastAbby Wait, Alexander Skarsgård, Austin Lyon, Bel Powley, Christopher Meloni, John Parsons
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Diary of a Teenage Girl keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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