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‘My Old Ass’ Review: Always-Welcome Aubrey Plaza Pops in From the Future in YA Crowd-Pleaser
Megan Park's amusing and emotional second feature presents an original riff on the fantasy of going back in time to advise your younger self.
It takes some time to fall in love with 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) in “ My Old Ass.” She’s young and self-involved, so focused on heading off to college in the big city that she’s kind of a jerk to everyone around her (especially her small-town cranberry-farming family). To its credit, this future classic is honest about adolescent desire, self-questioning sexual identity issues and all kinds of other behavior that sends worried moms and dads into meltdown mode. Series creator Brenda Hampton clearly had an impact on Park, whose respectfully boundary-crossing YA comedy is a better teaching tool than most PG-13 films — not so much despite but because of its casual profanity, drug use and wildly irresponsible mishandling of a motorboat (in a way that kills teens every year).
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