Booksmart (2019)

Jack and I liked this funny and, yes, smart story of two nerdy girls cutting loose on their last day of high school. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein are terrific, with good supporting roles by Jason Sudeikis and Lisa Kudrow, among others. Maya Rudolph is the motivational voice.

It's the feature directorial debut of actress Olivia Wilde, who cast her husband Sudeikis in her movie. Written by Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman.

DJ/producer Dan the Automator (Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Deltron 3030, Kool Keith, Got a Girl, Crudo) composed the score.

Dever was last blogged for Detroit, Feldstein (Jonah Hill's sister) for Lady Bird, and Fogel co-wrote The Spy Who Dumped Me.

After I wrote about Sudeikis in Colossal we saw him in two episodes of Detroiters, 16 of The Last Man on Earth, and Downsizing. I didn't write about Kudrow's one day's work in The Boss Baby. She had been working for five years before her 236 episodes of Friends (1994-2004), and during and after that she was in Romy & Michele's High School Reunion (1997), The Opposite of Sex (1997), Hanging Up (2000), Analyze This (1999) and Analyze That (2002), 24 episodes of Mad About You, dozens and dozens of webisodes and Showtime episodes of Web Therapy, 21 of The Comeback, three of Grace and Frankie, and three of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Averaging 97% critics and 77 audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, it's now streaming on Amazon and other platforms. We saw it May 31, 2019.