![]() ![]() Right back to the angry young men of the early 1960s, British films about young people have almost always been about boys. Further back there are This Is England, Sweet Sixteen, Billy Elliot, Trainspotting, Gregory's Girl, Quadrophenia and Kes. As well as The Inbetweeners, in the recent past we've had Attack the Block, Neds, Harry Brown, Nowhere Boy and Submarine. It's also rites-of-passage films, teen-scene hipster movies, hoodie horrors – you name it. It's not just genital-warts'n'all British teen comedies that steer clear of girls. Many saw our male counterparts weep with laughter and recognition at The Inbetweeners, and thought: "I must dig out some DVDs that bring back memories of my hilariously embarrassing, hormone-addled schooldays." A browse of the video cabinet and brought it home there aren't any British films meeting that need. Well, one reason might be that they are female. Why wouldn't film-lovers flock to see such a formative part of their lives recreated so authentically, to spend a couple of happy hours revelling in "thank God it's not just me" camaraderie (for youngsters) or "thank God it's over" nostalgia (for older ones)? A funny, frank film about adolescence that got everything right – the phoney, peer-pleasing, "street" jargon the perpetually nagging fear of inadequacy, perked up by flashes of hope and well-oiled fantasy the humiliations ladled out by bodies commanded by the whiff of sex. ![]() The box-office success of The Inbetweeners Movie may have taken the film industry by surprise, but for many of its audience it was a no-brainer.
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