![]() ![]() The craziest thing about “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” which opens in theaters today, is that it took Blume this long - over 50 years - to let Hollywood do it, at least officially. In one of the too-few shots illustrating Margaret’s literal point of view, the camera moves in to gaze at the armpit hair of a local boy, Moose. Not only are you dealing with the normal pains of everyday existence and coming to terms with the fact that your parents just might be people too - you and all of your classmates are morphing at wildly different and confusing rates. ![]() ![]() It’s one of many lovely moments that evoke the strangeness of being 11. Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig ( “The Edge of Seventeen”) relishes in the excruciating awkwardness, letting time slow down as the conveyer belt screeches along. In a panic, Margaret throws a pack of mints on the boxes. The two girls watch in horror as the older woman at the checkout counter leaves for a break right as they approach and is replaced with a shaggy-haired teenage boy. In one scene, Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson), who has not yet started menstruating, decides to get ready for it by buying some pads at the convenience store with her friend Janie (Amari Alexis Price). ![]()
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