The highly anticipated Sony Pictures Releasing International film The Edge of Seventeen will have its European premiere at the 20th Edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia this Sunday, 20 November at 6 p.m. in the Kosmos IMAX cinema, on the eve of the US domestic launch of the film from STX Entertainment. Rising star Hayden Szeto will be attending the festival and screening.
The feature, which premiered to critical raves as the Closing Night Film at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in September, stars multi-talented Oscar® Award Nominee Hailee Steinfeld. The film is written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, and produced by Oscar® Winner James L. Brooks (The Simpsons, As Good as It Gets) via Gracie Films.
Hayden Szeto, who plays Hailee’s love interest in the film, will attend the screening in Tallinn, Estonia on behalf of Sony and participate in an audience Q & A. Fans can keep up-to-date with Hayden’s Estonian visit via his exclusive pan-regional MTV Facebook digital posts as well at #EdgeOf17 as he attends the festival events and explores the picturesque medieval city of Tallinn, Estonia.
The Edge of Seventeen is a new coming-of-age movie in the vein of Sixteen Candlesand The Breakfast Club – an honest, candid, often hilarious look at what it’s like to grow up as a young woman in today’s modern world.
Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy (Hayden Szeto) gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all. The film also stars Kyra Sedgwick as Nadine’s well-meaning but completely ineffective mother, and Woody Harrelson as Nadine’s History teacher, mentor and reluctant sounding board.
The Edge of Seventeen marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, and is produced by Academy Award® winner James L. Brooks – the filmmaker behind big-screen, character-driven classics such as Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Big, Say Anything, The Simpsons, Jerry Maguire and As Good as It Gets.
The film, which has scored a 95% on Rottentomatoes, rolls out internationally starting in December for both STX international territories and Sony territories, starting in the UK with eOne Entertainment (STX territory) on 2 December; in India for Sony on 16 December; on 22 December for Sony in Brazil, and for STX via Gulf Pictures in the UAE on 1 December and Times Media in S. Africa on 9 December.
13 January 2017 sees the releases for Sony in Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Peru, followed by Sweden (January 20th) and for STX territories Roadshow Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand on January 5th. Remaining Sony international territories release in February and March, 2017.
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