Review: Olivia Wilde's 'Booksmart' is wickedly sharp, and more than meets the eye
For anyone who spent their high-school years studying hard, racking up extracurriculars, avoiding parties and sneering at the popular kids who were clearly destined to peak in 12th grade - I'm not thinking of anyone in particular, of course - the opening scenes of "Booksmart" will play out with a strangely potent, slow-dawning horror.
On the last day of high school, Molly (Beanie Feldstein), a Yale-bound senior who dreams of becoming the nation's youngest Supreme Court justice, learns that not all her classmates were the losers and burnouts she'd thought (and hoped)
