![]() Director Julia Hart and screenwriters Kristin Hahn and Jordan Horowitz seem to recognize that aspects of teen life in the early 2000s don’t hold up in 2020, and they try to reconcile the 20-year difference. Like all stories, high-school dramas might tackle similar universal themes, but they can still suffer when they’re bogged down by the specificities of a time gone by.īased on the 2000 Jerry Spinelli novel of the same name, the newest Disney Plus original movie Stargirl suffers from trying to make its outdated plot relevant in 2020. Ask someone who graduated in 2009 about how they used social media, and you’ll get a very different answer than what a 2019 graduate would say. But while some social challenges never change, the details of how they manifest across teen culture evolve. Being a teenager is tough, no matter when you start attending high school. ![]()
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