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On top of giving us a healthy high school romance we actually stan (Seth x Vivian), and inspiring all of us girls to take a stand against sexism and body shaming, Netflix’s
Moxie is reminding us that representation matters.
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Moxie, the ragtag group of aspiring radical feminist teens that band together after reading Vivian’s secret zines, are made up of people from varied backgrounds.
There’s Vivian (Hadley Robinson), the daughter of a single parent; Lucy (Alycia Pacual-Peña), a Black outspoken rebel with a cause; Kiera (Sydney Park), an aspiring Black star athlete at school; Kaitlyn (Sabrina Haskett), a large-breasted girl who’s sent home from school for wearing a tank top; CJ (Josie Totah), a young transgirl; Meg (Emily Hopper), a girl who’s wheelchair-bound; and Claudia
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The retro-titled “Moxie,” based on the 2017 novel by Jennifer Mathieu, is a likable, well-performed and admirably inclusive, if not terribly deep, comedy about teen feminism. The film, directed by Amy Poehler from a script by Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer, should strike a chord with young women aware or becoming aware that they’re growing up in a system still flagrantly rigged against them more than 50 years after their grandmas began burning their bras.
Vivian (Hadley Robinson) is an earnest, hard-working high school junior living with her divorced mom, Lisa (Poehler), and joined at the hip with Claudia (Lauren Tsai), her bookish longtime BFF. But a series of unsettling events a student poll that ranks Vivian “most obedient,” a baffling college essay question, and the arrival of provocative new classmate Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) inspires the 16-year-old to imitate her mother’s riot-grrrl past and buck the school’s sexist status quo. Her move: She s
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