

Four best friends negotiate loss and major life changes during the last two weeks of high school.
Acting
Awkwafina steals scenes; Lucy Hale's unraveling is quietly brutal.
Writing
Olivia Milch's script nails how teens actually talk when adults leave.

Director
Olivia Milch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Olivia Milch wrote this before Ocean's 8 and based Lily's grief on her own high school experience. The title 'Dude' was intentionally gender-reclaiming.
Released same year as Booksmart but buried by Netflix algorithm; this is the darker, less hopeful cousin of the 2018 'last days of school' boom.