Hailee Steinfeld (Pictured) plays Nadine in “The Edge of Seventeen”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut Mr. Bruner has an uncanny ability to care, especially for his favorite pupil Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who has problems of her own.<\/p>\n
Nadine\u2019s mother is Mona (Kyra Sedgwick) who is a total mess after her husband dies. She just has to remind herself of how everyone else is dying out there and then she\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n
Mona\u2019s favorite sibling is her son, who is Nadine\u2019s older brother (played by Blake Jenner), but Nadine sees the unfairness of this favoritism. Nadine is the one who is always singled out by Mom for her sulky behavior, but her brother is singled out for being exceptional.<\/p>\n
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The lonely girl<\/h4>\n
Nadine herself is a \u201cmisfit\u201d. She has no friends, except for her one and only girlfriend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). But Nadine breaks up with Krista. Why? Because Krista becomes more than great friends with Nadine\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n
Nadine can\u2019t bear the thought that she\u2019s no longer her girlfriend\u2019s number one. Nadine has no one else in her life. Ouch, enter angsty feelings, and that desperate feeling you need someone. It leads to all sorts of outlandish behavior. Two weeks of it. Parent\u2019s thinking, oh, no.<\/p>\n
Nadine\u2019s problem under the layers is finding approval. Approval is what she needs\u2014after seventeen years of growing up pains that have contributed to the phase she\u2019s now in.<\/p>\n
There are periods and phases in all of life which come with their unique problems. But there are ways of dealing with those periodic issues.<\/p>\n
As well as teenagers going through phases, even adults go through phases. In The Edge of Seventeen Mr. Bruner was working on some issue as an older man, but found the way onward.<\/p>\n
Relief for everyone is this: whatever one has to go through, at any one time, there is a way out.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just a phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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