Details

Release year: 2019

Storyline

A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.

Top credits

Directors

Coky Giedroyc

Writers

Caitlin Moran

Cast

Beanie Feldstein — Johanna Morrigan
Cleo — Bianca Morrigan
Dónal Finn — Karl Boden
Paddy Considine — Pat Morrigan

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Did you know

• During the scene where Johanna gets the job at Face Magazine toward the end of the film, Caitlin Moran (who the film is based on) can be seen walking past the office in the left talking to a friend.

• Beanie Feldstein spent a month living with Coky Giedroyc in Wolverhampton to help her get the accent right. Feldstein even had a job working in a local bookshop and was forbidden to use her native Californian accent.

• Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this played in drive-in cinemas in the USA, but went straight to a digital release in its native UK.