2015 Movies : Coming-of-Age

With Hailee Steinfeld • Ethan Hawke • Emile Hirsch • Emily Mortimer • Asa Butterfield • Shari Springer Berman • Robert Pulcini • Celine Rattray • Luca Borghese

A coming-of-age story about three teenagers in late 1980s New York City—Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, “straight-edge” musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld)—who break away from their messed-up parents (Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer) to form their own surrogate family. Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval—against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots.