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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 1999 young adult novel by American author Stephen Chbosky. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted and observant teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. The novel details Charlie's unconventional style of thinking as he navigates between the worlds ...
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 American coming-of-age romantic drama film written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, and based on his 1999 novel. Logan Lerman stars as a teenager named Charlie who writes to an unnamed friend, and these epistles chronicle his trials, tribulations, and triumphs as he goes through his freshman year of high school.
The celebrated coming-of-age drama turns 10 years old this week. How The Perks of Being a Wallflower Became a Generation-Defining Classic Sam Rosenberg
Lerman gained further recognition for playing the title character in the Percy Jackson film series, d'Artagnan in 2011's The Three Musketeers, starred in the coming-of-age dramas The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Indignation (2016) and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), and had major roles in the 2014 films Noah and Fury.
I Am Sam (stylized in all lowercase) is a 2001 American drama film co-written and directed by Jessie Nelson. It stars Sean Penn , Michelle Pfeiffer , Dianne Wiest , Dakota Fanning , Elle Fanning , Richard Schiff , Loretta Devine and Laura Dern .
Stephen Chbosky (/ ʃ ə ˈ b ɒ s k i /; [1] born January 25, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and author. He is best-known for writing the bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for writing and directing the 2012 film adaptation of the book.
[20] Claire White, in her analysis for Junkee Media, said, "No film quite understands the power of music during your teen years quite like The Perks of Being a Wallflower". [21] Writing for The New Zealand Herald, Kim Gillespie gave a 4/5 rating to the soundtrack and said, "This album does what a good soundtrack should do, and takes you there ...
In May 2010, Watson was reported to be in talks to star in Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, [83] based on the 1999 novel of the same name. Filming began in summer of 2011, and the film was released in September 2012. [84]