
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
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2008★ 5.9
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The Little Death
2014★ 6.7
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2000★ 6.1
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2018★ 6.7
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Below Her Mouth
2017★ 6.8
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Just Before I Go
2015★ 6.4
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The Man from Elysian Fields
2001★ 5.9
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