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1998 independent teen drama film
- Whatever is a 1998 independent teen drama film written and directed by Susan Skoog, about a high school senior's angst in the early 1980s in suburban Northern New Jersey and about her future as an art student with an urge to attend Cooper Union across the Hudson in New York City.
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Susan Skoog (1965 [1] - ), American filmmaker, is best known for her low-budget debut film Whatever. Asked why she felt the desire to make the film, Skoog explained to IndieWIRE : "I felt like there hadn’t been a film that really nailed what it was like to be a suburban girl growing up in this country."
Nov 10, 2018 · Susan Skoog’s underappreciated teen drama Whatever opens on a moonlit image of two lovers on a field of grass, he on top of her, in what appears to be flagrante delicto — but which is revealed shortly after to be a train run on an unsuspecting teenage girl.
Whatever: Directed by Susan Skoog. With Liza Weil, Chad Morgan, Frederic Forrest, Kathryn Rossetter. A teen faces her impending adulthood in the carefree sex and drug revolution years of the early 80's prior to fears of AIDS.
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- Drama
- Susan Skoog
- 1998-07-10
Writer-director Skoog shrewdly sets the story in a New Jersey suburb of the early 1980s, so that she can explore the subculture of sex-drugs-music without dealing with the lethal effects of AIDS.
Jul 9, 1998 · Susan Skoog says "Whatever" by Andrea Meyer. “ Whatever,” a debut feature for writer/director Susan Skoog, is being. released by Sony Pictures Classics this Friday. Skoog has been a....
- Indiewire
Aug 1, 1998 · Whatever by Susan Skoog stars Liza Weil as Anna Stockard and Chad Morgan as her slutty friend Brenda, two high school girls in 1981 who do the standard “survivors” turn on behalf of the I-am-womanism of Ms Skoog.
WHATEVER. Directed by Susan Skoog. USA, 1998, 1h 52min, 35mm. To the Front. Watch Trailer. “Captures a strong sense of realism.”. —Austin Chronicle. “Seeing a movie like this could do a lot of kids some good. Parents, I suspect, would find it terrifying.”.
