

Your 90s nostalgia is about to get emotionally earthquaked.
Based on Italian writer Chiara Barzini's novel of the same name, a coming of age roman à clef narrative set in the San Fernando Valley in the early 1990s.
Direction
Zemeckis pivots to raw coming-of-age after decades of spectacle.
Writing
Barzini's roman à clef brought to screen with literary fidelity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barzini's novel captures a specific Italian immigrant experience in 90s LA rarely depicted on screen.
Zemeckis reportedly optioned this himself, chasing the project for years after reading a translated manuscript.
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