This wallflower blooms

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2015)

If John Hughes and Cameron Crowe had made a movie together it would probably have been very similar to 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower'.
The older I get, the more these kinds of teenage melodramas grate on my nerves, but I was gob smacked by how emotionally invested I became here. The bulk of the credit goes to the cast (particularly the three young leads; Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller), who at first seem too poised and too pretty to play these broken characters, but once the story begins to peel back the layers they really shine, and consequently so does the movie.
For teenagers this is required viewing. For adults your mileage may vary.