![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of the film, the intractable and understandably frustrated teen must learn to accept help from those who love him and want to support him.Īt first glance, Adam Petrazelli ( Charlie Plummer) appears to be your typical, socially inept teenager with considerable dreams, fiery hormones, and deep-seated emotions. Along with depicting a syrupy romance between two distressed teens, Thor Freudenthal’s Words on Bathroom Walls explores the thorny subject of mental health, particularly what a life with schizophrenia would look like, and how much stigma there is surrounding the illness.īased on Julia Walton’s novel of the same name and adapted by Nick Naveda, Words on Bathroom Walls is a compassionate, insightful, and commercially accessible adaptation that is able to destigmatize schizophrenia by focusing on a teenager who has no choice but to live with the illness around the time he must venture the hostile high school terrain. ![]() But with every dud that blemishes the silver screen, there’s a fresh spin on a story we’ve seen so many times before. Hollywood has an obsession with the young adult genre, but Hollywood has many obsessions - from jump-scare horror to tragic romance to ribald comedy - and those obsessions often churn out forgettable duds. ![]()
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