![]() Sammy has an immediate impression on Margot, and Margot drags the troubled teen to a magic show she is performing for children. Trying to drown out the noise of her family, Sammy turns to her late mother’s stories every night to escape into imaginary worlds.Īfter barely getting by one of her first classes at the business course, Sammy runs into an older woman named Margot (Rhea Perlman). Meanwhile, Angus has been trying to further take things to the next level with a new girlfriend. Sammy’s older sister bullies her and hides away in her nerdy hobbies. In reality, their family has been dysfunctional ever since the death of their mother and they have been unable to healthily process it - all while Sammy’s behavior is the worst outcome of its impact. ![]() ![]() Sammy’s father, Angus (Leonardo Nam) has enough of Sammy’s behavior and forces her to enroll at a business course at a community college or she will be sent to a boot camp. Marvelous and the Black Hole follows a teenage delinquent named Sammy (Miya Cech) Sammy gets into fights, has been skipping school, and also resorts to smoking and acts of self-harm by making stick and poke tattoos on herself. ![]() The “face” of the coming-of-age story has been changing: It is not that teenagers have changed - far from it in fact, when the woes of adolescence remain one of the most universal parts of the human experience - but it is apparent in recent years that the default notions of what a “teenager” should look like has changed to be better reflective of what the viewing world needs today.įrom the adaptation of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and to the animated Turning Red, there has been a growing breadth of Asian American representation in the latest zeitgeist of movies, especially when it comes to the portrayal and depiction of youth stories that have long needed to be told. ![]()
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