The Teenage Textbook Movie is a film adaptation of Adrian Tan's bestselling 1988 novel The Teenage Textbook. It is a lighthearted look at the lives of four students in Singapore as they start junior college.[1]
The Teenage Textbook Movie | |
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Directed by | Phillip Lim |
Written by | Philip Lim Haresh Sharma Edmund Tan |
Produced by | Jonathan Foo |
Starring | Melody Chen Caleb Goh Steven David Lim Lim Hwee Sze Chong Chee Kin |
Edited by | Walter Tan |
Distributed by | Cathay |
Release date | November 1998 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Singapore |
Language | English |
When Mui Ee attends Paya Lebar Junior College with her best friend Sissy Song, she encounters a new life form: boys. There are many, but only one will win her heart.
Yong Siew Fern of The New Paper rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that "Unobtrusive acting and music-video editing combine to make this movie very much like your teen years - it will pass at its strolling pace, but it will be entertaining."[3] Tan of Sinema felt that the "script was very well-written and although some parts were a little off in execution, it was an amazing adaptation of the book.".[4]