In an era when many schoolkids are more concerned about gun violence (in the US), cyberbullying and sending nudes than the seemingly more old-fashioned growing pains of who you are and whether the popular boy fancies you, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. is a welcome, nostalgic throwback to simpler times.
In adapting Judy Blume’s 1970 novel, writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig depicts a more innocent age, where girls look at penises in anatomy books and giggle, then scan the pages of Playboy for comparisons to their own developing bodies.
