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The Party You've Only Dreamed About
Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh

Teenagers in movies are smarter than those in real life. They’re smoother. They’re cooler. They spend Friday nights at hip parties with hip music, rather than locked in their rooms with their best friends lip-synching to an embarrassing amount of Katy Perry. Mass-marketed films with teenagers operate outside of the neuroses of growing up, the insecurities of personality, in confidence rather ... more >