"Moxie," directed by Amy Poehler and based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu, follows a group of teen girls rising up to fight gender inequality at school.
For way too long, the stories of boys and men have been prioritized in Hollywood and beyond. In fact, it’s only been in the last few years, that films
Mean Girls was a turning point for a lot of people, most of all for
Tina Fey, who used the opportunity to rocket to enormous success behind the camera. It’s not surprising that her fellow alumna and gal pal
Amy Poehler‘s second film,
Moxie, plays like something of a companion piece. But it’s interesting that it feels almost like a counterpoint or rebuttal.
Vivian (
Hadley Robinson,
Little Women), a seemingly shy 16-year-old, has always preferred to keep her head down and fly under the radar. But when the arrival of a new student named Lucy (
Alycia Pascual-Peña,
Hadley Robinson and Nico Haraga in Amy Poehler s Moxie
Credit: Netflix
Dir: Amy Poehler. Cast: Hadley Robinson, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Lauren Tsai, Nico Hiraga, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Marcia Gay Harden, Sabrina Haskett, Sydney Park, Anjelica Washington, Josie Totah, Amy Poehler, Ike Barinholtz. 15 cert, 110 mins
At the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were both sporting an unconventional red-carpet look: a small cluster of hearts and stars, scrawled on their hands in black ink. These symbols, it transpires, are a secret sign of female solidarity in Moxie, a coming-of-age drama directed by Saturday Night Live veteran Poehler, about a feminist uprising at an American high school. Hashtag activism, meet viral marketing! These days you’re looking more and more alike.