Mid90s

2018
R
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

81K

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POPULARITY

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Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama

Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate ... Read allFollows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

81K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,109

329

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 10 nominations

Trivia
In an interview, Jonah Hill admitted that he was afraid audiences would accuse him of being homophobic because of the repeated use of words like f****t throughout the film and considered shooting a scene where the kids debate over whether they should be using that kind of language. He showed the scene to producer Scott Rudin, himself a gay man, who asked "Would you guys have had this conversation back then?" When Jonah said no, Rudin said that the scene would be "more offensive to put that in the movie than to show it how it actually was."

Goofs
The Sony Handycam used by Fourth Grade (Ryder McLaughlin) is a CCD-TRV16 camcorder. This model was released in 1998 and if this film precisely took place either in '93, '94, '95 or '96 (hence the Mid90s title); this would mean this camcorder model is anachronistic being manufactured as early as 1998.

Quotes
Ray: A lot of the time we feel that our lives the worst, but I think that if you looked in anybody else's closet, you wouldn't trade your shit for their shit. So let's go.

Crazy credits
The A24 logo at the start of the film is made of skateboards.

Connections
Featured in CTV News at 11:30 Toronto: Episode dated 9 September 2018 (2018)

Soundtracks
Kiss from a Rose
Written by Seal (as Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel)
Performed by Seal
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

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Featured review

8/10

Just Real

Through Mid90s, Jonah Hill actually teaches as he realistically depicts skatepark teenagers. There's obviously a lot of raunchy jokes and coarse touches of humour, but the drama genre also strikes deep when it comes and deals with mature subject matter such as abuse and teenage alcohol use.

In a way, it kind of feels like old classics like The Shining or descending-into-madness stories, except for 13-year-old Stevie, it's the descent into teenage life. He starts of as a naive child who doesn't know what black people are, to then ending up swearing to his mother, smoking and even confronting and fighting back at his abusive brother. As solidly stated in the movie, the teenage friends wouldn't change their rough home lives for each others, considering they're all dealing with the struggles of home life. Their own personal struggles are what make good sense with their behaviour around other teens.

The guys who enrol the teenage friends group definitely feel like low-budget cast members, but their performances are perfect and demonstrate stereotypical teenagers. However, Sunny Suljic and Lucas Hedges are easily the most memorable out of the whole cast. It's also very effective in the context that it's filmed with an old-fashioned ratio.

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