To find out how post-millennials party, look no further than "Booksmart." Olivia Wilde's directorial debut is a fresh take on the old story about two high-school friends who decide to chuck the books and get cray-zee. This time, though, our heroes are girls rather than boys, and their world is not the feral landscape of bullies and roughnecks that you, perhaps, grew up in. Everyone is cool with everything in "Booksmart."
To start, the film is about a gay-straight friendship, between out-but-shy Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and bossy Molly (Beanie Feldstein, who shares a certain brashness with her brother Jonah Hill). These girls raise no eyebrows at Crockett High, a Los Angeles public school where social cliques seem fluid and the bathrooms are coed. What irks people is how Molly flaunts her recent acceptance to a certain college in New Haven. ("Just say Yale," groans Jason Sudeikis as Principal Brown.)
With great relish, the school bimbo reveals she also got into Yale _ living proof that one can indeed balance work and play. Now, on the eve of graduation, Molly sees one last chance to cut loose, at a party hosted by her secret crush, Nick (Mason Gooding).
