The unbearable angst of being young

By Craig Mathieson
November 29 2012 - 3:00am

IN AN AGE when movie studios believe they have to lure young audiences away from competing mediums with expensive effects and cheap laughs, you could easily believe that most films are made for teenagers. But this week one release, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, plays to the now rarely seen definition of a teen movie. It's a story of bitter alienation, heartfelt friendship and doomed desire; in other words, adolescence.

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