Film

Flower

Name: Flower
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2017
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker, Adam Scott, Joey Morgan

Coming-of-age

Zoey Deutch is a sharp-tongued seventeen-year-old chaos agent in the San Fernando Valley who blackmails her high school teacher alongside her ragtag crew. It's anarchic, sometimes uncomfortably dark, and moves between comedy and genuine pathos without warning. For viewers who like their teen protagonists morally messy and their humor with an edge.

TMDb rating

3.2

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like prickly, funny teenage protagonists who make a mess of everything around them, and you don't mind a comedy that stays uncomfortable on purpose.

Skip it if you need likable leads and a comedy that keeps its jokes light; this one is abrasive, sour in places, and its moral sense is deliberately murky.

What it asks of you: Ninety-four minutes of loose, episodic scenes that linger on discomfort instead of sprinting from joke to joke, so patience matters more than laughs per minute.

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