If Beale Street Could Talk, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Sorry To Bother You, The Wife and You Were Never Really Here won awards at Film Independent’s 34th Spirit Awards ceremony.
Eighth Grade
NAME OF FILM: EIGHTH GRADE
DIRECTOR(S): Bo Burnham
STARRING: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan
GENRE: Comedy Film
SYNOPSIS: 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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