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
Lucy Hale
Lily Weil
Kathryn Prescott
Chloe Daniels
Alexandra Shipp
Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein
Awkwafina
Rebecca Voller
Alex Wolff
Noah
Jerry MacKinnon
Sam
Michaela Watkins
Jill Weil
Austin Abrams
James Weil
Austin Butler
Thomas Daniels
Brooke Smith
Lorraine Daniels
Ronen Rubinstein
Mike
Satya Bhabha
Immanuel Bemis
Sydney Lucas
Olivia Weil
Nora Dunn
Rosa
Ian Gomez
Jerry
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.
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