Edge of Seventeen
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1998 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | David Moreton |
| Cast | Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay |
| Genre | Romantic comedy-drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Edge of Seventeen | – |
| Español | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Français | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Deutsch | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Português | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Italiano | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Русский | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| 中文（简体） | Edge of Seventeen | – |
| 中文（繁體） | Edge of Seventeen | – |
| 한국어 | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| ไทย | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Tiếng Việt | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Edge of Seventeen | Edge of Seventeen |
| 日本語 | エッジ・オブ・セブンティーン | Ejji obu sebuntīn |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which emerging self-recognition and social concealment collide within adolescent first love
■ Synopsis
A teenager in 1980s Ohio confronts desire, friendship, family expectation, and the need to name himself honestly.
■ RECIPE Tags
#SelfRecognition #ComingOut #FirstDesire #IdentityThreshold
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Desire before language
Reason: The self begins to appear before the social vocabulary for it becomes stable
Related Film: Get Real - Middle: Friendship as fracture point
Reason: Intimacy and concealment reshape existing relationships into sites of pain and recognition
Related Film: Beautiful Thing - Core: Honesty against social safety
Reason: The movement toward self-naming requires the loss of protective ambiguity
Related Film: Love, Simon
■ Secondary Axes
- Family threshold: Private identity must cross into domestic reality
Related Film: The Way He Looks - Youth identity under social script: Adolescence becomes a conflict between expected normality and lived truth
Related Film: Pariah
■ Person
- Director: David Moreton
- Cast: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay
■ Structural Tags
#IdentityThreshold #ConcealmentBreak #RecognitionArc
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1998Film #ComingOfAgeFilm
