The Edge Of Seventeen (180g) (Limited-Numbered-Edition) (Orange Vinyl) on 2 LPs

"The Edge of Seventeen" is a new coming-of-age movie in the vein of Sixteen

Candles and The Breakfast Club - an honest, candid, often hilarious look at

what it's like to grow up as a young woman in today's modern world. Everyone

knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior

Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star

older brother Darian starts dating her best friend Krista. All at once, Nadine

feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy

gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all.

"The Edge of Seventeen" marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director

Kelly Fremon Craig, and is produced by Academy Award winner James L.

Brooks - the filmmaker behind big-screen, character-driven classics such as

Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Big, Say Anything, The Simpsons, Jerry

Maguire and As Good as It Gets. The film is getting plenty of comparisons to

the John Hughes' The Breakfast Club, but it's mostly modern soundtrack helps

set it apart from those 80s classics: Santigold's new rollicking “Who I Thought

You Were”, a standout off this year's 99, opens the movie and a pivotal party

scene is filled with tracks by festival favorites like Two Door Cinema Club and

Anderson Paak. Furthermore the soundtrack of the film features a hearty and

exciting mix of talents as diverse as Aimee Mann, Phantogram, Birdy, Handsome

Poets, Miike Snow and others.

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