Megan Park directs Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White and Aubrey Plaza in this teen comedy where during a hallucinogenic trip in the woods a Gen-Z-er is visited by her future self.

A sweet, loose romcom with its heart in the right place. Not nearly enough Aubrey Plaza… but, even if she isn’t an obvious match in either physicality or persona to the bookending star, Maisy Stella has plenty of charisma in her own right. The movie swings for emotional significance without being overbearing. The only real drawback is Percy Hynes White. Nice guy but he is such a dorky and unthreatening screen presence that he makes Michael Cera seem like machismo maximised. Surely teen girls, even those who identify as lesbians, don’t want their boys quite this… meh?

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Perfect Double Bill: Freaky Friday (1976)

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