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Senior Year is a 2022 American comedy film directed by Alex Hardcastle (in his feature film directorial debut) from a screenplay by Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli, and Brandon Scott Jones.[3][4] The film stars Rebel Wilson (who also produced) as a 37-year-old woman who awakens from a 20-year coma and decides to go back to high school to earn her diploma. Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Justin Hartley, Chris Parnell, Angourie Rice, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jones, and Alicia Silverstone also star. The film was released on May 13, 2022, by Netflix, and was the No.1 Netflix Global movie for two weeks in a row and remained in the Netflix Top 10 movie for six weeks, accumulating over 167,600,000 hours of viewership during this time.[5]

Senior Year
Official release poster
Directed byAlex Hardcastle
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Andrew Knauer
  • Arthur Pielli
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMarco Fargnoli
Edited bySarah Lucky
Music byJermaine Stegall
Production
companies
  • Paramount Pictures
  • Paramount Players[1]
  • Broken Road Productions
  • Camp Sugar
Distributed byNetflix[2]
Release date
  • May 13, 2022 (2022-05-13)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot


In 1999, after a disastrous birthday party at the local "cool" spot, Rock N Bowl, with her friends Seth and Martha, 14 year-old Australian immigrant Stephanie Conway decides she wants to be one of "the populars". She spends the next few years giving herself a makeover, becoming cheer squad captain, dating popular boy Blaine, and becoming one of the most popular girls by senior year.

In 2002, Stephanie plans to win the title of prom queen in hopes of becoming like Deanna Russo, an alumna of her high school who got married after graduation, and now lives in an expensive mansion. She lives with her widowed father and is still friends with Martha and Seth, who secretly has a crush on her. Stephanie has regular disagreements over prom preparations with Blaine's ex-girlfriend Tiffany, who feels threatened by the prospect of Stephanie winning the prom queen title. At a cheer performance, Tiffany convinces her friends to sabotage Stephanie's landing, severely injuring her and putting her into a coma.

Twenty years later, in 2022, Stephanie, now 37, wakes from her coma. Her father and Martha, now principal and cheerleading coach at Harding High, take her home. On the way, driving past Deanna Russo's old house, Stephanie sees that the now-married Tiffany and Blaine reside there. With reluctant support from her father and Martha, Stephanie goes back to high school to finish her senior year, where she learns that Seth is now the librarian, and the positions of prom king and queen have been abolished due to student complaints. Additionally, Tiffany and Blaine's daughter Bri is the most popular girl at school and has a huge social media following. The cheerleaders are no longer the popular students and are forced to perform bland, sanitized routines with no dancing.

Stephanie works to regain her former popularity through social media, finally succeeding after a risqué cheer routine she choreographs without Martha's permission goes viral at a pep rally. The next day, she is confronted by Martha, who tells her that she and Seth felt abandoned when Stephanie became popular back in high school. Stephanie decides to attend a showing of Deep Impact with Seth, and they get closer after goading Tiffany into getting kicked out of the theater for being disruptive. Afterwards, they have drinks at the Rock N Bowl and Stephanie confesses that she wants to be elected prom queen so badly because she wants to make her late mother proud.

Tiffany uses Bri's influence at school to get the prom king and queen contest reinstated and invites everyone at school except Stephanie to a prom afterparty at their house. Stephanie decides to host her own afterparty at Martha's lake house without her knowledge. Seth agrees to go to prom with Stephanie but is hurt when he sees Blaine attempt to kiss her, not knowing that Blaine was drunk and tried to force himself on her. Bri's boyfriend Lance becomes prom king, and although Tiffany rigs the vote so Bri will win, Bri drops out so that Stephanie is the prom queen. As Stephanie and Lance share the prom king and queen dance, the school rallies around her. Bri tells everyone to attend Stephanie's afterparty, which is successful until Tiffany gets the police to shut it down. Martha angrily confronts Stephanie for using her lake house without asking.

On the way home from the party, Stephanie realizes her Lyft driver is a middle-aged Deanna Russo. Deanna reveals that before she turned 30, her husband divorced her after deciding to leave her for a 21-year-old woman. Since she did not have a college degree, she was never able to build a life for herself and now works several part-time jobs while struggling to pay for community college. Deanna tells Stephanie that becoming prom queen did not give her a perfect life or fix all of her problems. Bri arrives home, furious that Tiffany called the police on Stephanie's party, and points out that Tiffany did not even ask if she was okay or if she had been arrested. Bri points out that both her father and mother are miserable together and forces her to apologize to Stephanie. Stephanie accepts Tiffany's apology and encourages her to focus more on her daughter instead of keeping up appearances.

Stephanie tears down her popularity board and contemplates skipping the graduation ceremony, but her father convinces her to attend. Streaming an apology to her followers and friends, she promises to be her true self from now on. At graduation, her friends and family secretly organize the cheer routine from Stephanie's senior year. She makes up with Martha, finally kisses Seth, and welcomes Tiffany to join them on stage as she finally gets to pull off the move that she never got to do twenty years earlier.


Cast


Additionally, Merrick McCartha appears as Principal Young, and Steve Aoki appears as himself.


Production


In June 2021, Alicia Silverstone joined the cast.[7] In July 2021, Jade Bender, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Avantika, Joshua Colley, newcomer Ana Yi Puig, Molly Brown, Zaire Adams, and Tyler Barnhardt were added to the cast.[8]

Principal photography began in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 24, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] Filming was completed by July 2021.[10]


Reception


The movie has received poor reviews, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 24%, with an average score of 4.4/10, based on 59 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "In spite of a premise that promises to highlight Rebel Wilson with the appropriate level of pomp and circumstance, Senior Year is strictly remedial."[11] Although it also received an audience approval rating of 46%, Buzzfeed article "The Best Reactions To Netflix's "Senior Year" On Twitter" highlighted fans reactions to the movie, calling it a "raunchy comedy that provides laughs galore" and commended Rebel Wilson's performance "an absolute comedic gem." [12]

LA Times praised the movie, saying that though "Senior Year is not an ambitious movie, but it’s mostly a sweet one, and frequently funny."[13] Entertainment Weekly gave Senior Year a B grade, saying "[It] is honestly exactly the kind of movie you probably come to Netflix for, far more than any...prestige: Fun, nonsensical, and meant to be consumed with neither guilt nor pants." [14] Mick LaSalle from San Francisco Chronicle called "Netflix’s ‘Senior Year’ gives Rebel Wilson the role she deserves." [15]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 47 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[16]


References


  1. Sanchez, Gabrielle (June 1, 2021). "Alicia Silverstone returns to her high school comedy roots, joins the cast of Senior Year". The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  2. Lund, Anthony (June 7, 2021). "Alicia Silverstone Returns to High School in Netflix Comedy Senior Year". MovieWeb. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  3. Kroll, Justin (February 25, 2021). "Rebel Wilson To Star in Paramount Players Comedy 'Senior Year'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
  4. Kroll, Justin (May 7, 2021). "Justin Hartley, Angourie Rice, Sam Richardson, Others Join Rebel Wilson In Paramount Players' 'Senior Year'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  5. "Netflix Top 10 - Global". top10.netflix.com. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  6. Jackson, Angelique (July 16, 2021). "Jade Bender, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Avantika Join Paramount Players' 'Senior Year'(EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  7. Kroll, Justin (June 1, 2021). "Alicia Silverstone Returns to High School Joining the Cast Of Paramount Players' Comedy 'Senior Year' Starring Rebel Wilson". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation.
  8. Jackson, Angelique (July 16, 2021). "Jade Bender, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Avantika Join Paramount Players' 'Senior Year'(EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  9. Ho, Rodney (May 25, 2021). "New Georgia productions: Rebel Wilson's 'Senior Year' film, 'The Waltons' TV movie, Rosario Dawson HBO series 'DMZ'". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  10. Lund, Anthony (July 15, 2021). "Rebel Wilson Shows Off Raunchy Cheerleader Dance and Bungled Tan Line on Senior Year Set". MovieWeb. Retrieved July 22, 2021. Appearing in full cheerleader garb, Wilson and her cheerleading posse celebrated the end of filming in Atlanta, Georgia with a quick and raunchy clip featuring a whole lot of booty shaking.
  11. "Senior Year - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  12. Shunpike, Stan. "The Best Reactions To Netflix's "Senior Year" On Twitter". BuzzFeed. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  13. Facebook; Twitter; options, Show more sharing; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; Email; URLCopied!, Copy Link; Print (May 14, 2022). "Review: World War II espionage and a high school redux highlight movies to watch at home". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 6, 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  14. Baldwin, Kristen; May 13, Leah Greenblatt; EDT, 2022 at 09:50 AM. "Musts & Misses: 'Kids in the Hall' and 'Senior Year' pass, 'Operation Mincemeat' is served cold". EW.com. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  15. May 13, Mick LaSalle; May 13. "Review: Netflix's 'Senior Year' gives Rebel Wilson the role she deserves". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  16. "Senior Year". Metacritic. Red Ventures. Retrieved May 17, 2022.




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