Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Acting
Sennott and Edebiri's unhinged desperation is art
Direction
Seligman's horror-comedy timing from 'Shiva Baby' evolves
Writing
Dialogue so specifically stupid it loops back to genius
Director
Emma Seligman
Rachel Sennott
PJ
Ayo Edebiri
Josie
Ruby Cruz
Hazel Callahan
Havana Rose Liu
Isabel
Kaia Gerber
Brittany
Nicholas Galitzine
Jeff
Miles Fowler
Tim
Marshawn Lynch
Mr. G
Dagmara Dominczyk
Mrs. Callahan
Punkie Johnson
Rhodes
Zamani Wilder
Annie
Summer Joy Campbell
Sylvie
Virginia Tucker
Stella-Rebecca
Wayne Péré
Principal Meyers
Toby Nichols
Goth Kid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rachel Sennott and Emma Seligman developed this after 'Shiva Baby,' originally planning a darker version before Orion Pictures pushed for more comedy.
The film's deliberately artificial high school—no parents, vague time period—deliberately evokes 'Heathers' and 'But I'm a Cheerleader' while refusing realism.
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