Making things tough for herself
Carrie Pilby is a coming-of-age tale about a girl who has to deal with the difficulties of being young, single and adrift in New York City.
THERE'S a perfectly good reason why Carrie Pilby (Bel Powley) doesn't have any friends: she has an aversion to other members of the human race. At 19, already graduated from Harvard - having enrolled as a 14-year-old prodigy - she's taken a different path from her peers and can't be easily pigeonholed. Grouchy, opinionated and somewhat bratty, with a penchant for alienating others, the only time she speaks to strangers is when she says: "Table for one, please."
Carrie Pilby, a coming-of-age tale directed by Susan Johnson and adapted by Kara Holden from a novel for young adults by Caren Lissner, attempts to bottle some of the magic from Diary of a Teenage Girl (2016), which also starred Powley. The results are…
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