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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
Moxie. Netflix
The new Netflix film
Moxie, directed by Amy Poehler from the book by Jennifer Mathieu, tries to stuff a lot of things into two hours. It s a story about Vivian (Hadley Robinson), a 16-year-old girl trying out the idea of a political self for the first time via a feminist zine (the titular
Moxie) that she secretly begins publishing and stacking up on top of the hand dryers in the school bathrooms. The zine leads to the formation of a Moxie club, and then to something of a movement.
It s also a story about Vivian as the child of a single mom (played by Poehler), and how she struggles with her mom s desire to date. And there s more! Vivian is getting involved with her first boyfriend, Seth (Nico Haraga), a guy who knows about and digs her secret work. She s having some growing pains with her longtime best friend Claudia (Lauren Tsai), in part because she s making a bunch of new Moxie friends including Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), whose boldness in stan