2011 · comedy
Barely Legal
Directed by Jose Montesinos1h 29m2011
Sue, Cheryl and Lexi are three college freshmen who have been best friends since they were born on the same day. They do something special every year for their birthday, but on their eighteenth, they set out to lose their virginity.
Our read: Barely Legal (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want raunchy low-stakes comedy about three friends losing their virginity on a birthday.”
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